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Eötvös/Ligeti recording named 2013 Gramophone Record of the Year

Sep. 18, 2013

Eötvös/Ligeti recording named 2013 Gramophone Record of the Year

The 2013 Gramophone Classical Music Awards has announced this year’s Recording of the Year as Naïve label’s Bartók, Eötvös and Ligeti violin concertos performed by Patricia Kopatchinskaja, Ensemble Modern and the Hessen Radio Symphony Orchestra conducted by Peter Eötvös. This recording has also been named a Gramophone Award winner in the 2013 “concerto” category. A heartfelt congratulation goes out to all involved with this outstanding project!

Of the recording, Gramophone notes:

Kopatchinskaja’s violin comes close to disintegrating under the force of her spectacular display and the final orchestral cut-off has never seemed more brutal. Even more powerful is the tortured serenity of the second and fourth movements, helping to mark the concerto out as one of Ligeti’s supreme achievements.

 Details on the Gramophone Awards can be found at www.gramophone.co.uk

Read our recent news article on this year’s Schott/EAM Gramophone winners at www.eamdc.com

Peter Eötvös
Seven (2006, rev. 2007)
Memorial for the Astronauts of the Space Shuttle Columbia
for violin and orchestra
3(1.afl, 2/3.pic).3.3.bcl.asax(bsax).3-2.2.2.1-4perc-egtr.hp.kbd sampler-str
21'

György Ligeti
Violin Concerto (1990, rev. 1992)
2(2.afl, sopranblfl, 2.pic).1(ocarina).2(1.Ebcl, ocarina, 2.bcl, ocarina).1(ocarina)-2.1.ttbn.0-timp.2perc-str(5.0.3.2.1)
28'

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