György Ligeti - Étude pour Piano No.14a

In his Piano Études Ligeti was strongly influenced by Nancarrows Studies for Player Piano. Ligeti wanted some of his Études to be transcribed for the Player Piano and he wanted "unplayable" arrangements. The transcriptions were made in close collaboration with the composer.
Nearly all Contemporary Original Compositions for Player Piano were influenced by the genius Studies for Player Piano of Conlon Nancarrow. The composers James Tenney, György Ligeti, Michael Denhoff, Steffen Schleiermacher, Tom Johnson, Wolfgang Heisig, Francis Bowdery, Krzysztof Meyer, Gerhard Stäbler, Daniele Lombardi, Kiyoshi Furukawa, Adriana Hölszky, Bernhard Lang and also the supervirtuoso Marc-André Hamelin -- they all used the superhuman possibilities of the Player Piano. This clip was recorded with a Bösendorfer Ampico Grand, finely restored by Jörg Borchardt according to Nancarrows directions. See www.playerpianokonzerte.de and www.nancarrow.de

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• Jörg Borchardt
• Jürgen Hocker

[Nogli]

@whiting122 I read this too, but I'm not believing it until I see it!

[whiting122]

@Nogli it has now been played by a human though, supposedly...

[Nogli]

This is the original version of what became Etude 14, rewritten to what it is now because this original version was too difficult for human performers.

[ComradeRedierk]

great uploads. does this strike anyone as being like a coda to the previous etude?