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Ligeti - Nonsense Madrigals, for 6 men's voices

Composer: György Sándor Ligeti (28 May 1923 – 12 June 2006) Work Title: Nonsense Madrigals, for 6 men's voices Performers: The King's Singers: David Hurley, Countertenor. Nigel Short, Countertenor. Bob Chilcott, Tenor. Bruce Russell, Baritone. Philip Lawson, Baritone. Stephen Connolly, Bass. 0:01 - I. Two Dreams and a Little Bat 2:15 - II. Cuckoo in the Pear-Tree 3:49 - III. The Alphabet 7:22 - IV. Flying Robert 10:03 - V. The Lobster Quadrille 11:53 - VI. A Long, Sad Tale György Sándor Ligeti was a Hungarian-Austrian composer of contemporary classical music. He has been described as "one of the most important avant-garde composers in the latter half of the twentieth century" and "one of the most innovative and influential among progressive figures of his time". Ligeti has always had a fondness for nonsense words and verse, dating back to his youthful creation of an imaginary world, Kylwiria, and an imaginary language for it. He had explored unusual uses of singers and texts in many previous works, such as Aventures (1962) and its successor, Nouvelles Aventures (1965). The Nonsense Madrigals were written many years later for the King's Singers, a group of six singers (two altos, tenor, two baritones and bass) who are here called upon to sing in a variety of styles, some serious and some quite comical. In part, the Nonsense Madrigals are also a tribute to Renaissance choral music of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. They even employ some of the techniques of that older music, such as setting two different texts simultaneously and having the melodic lines proceed at different tempos. The texts for the Madrigals come mostly from Lewis Carroll, along with some other verse from the Victorian era and, in the third piece, the alphabet. "Two Dreams and Little Bat" starts the set, employing three texts at the same time: William Brighty Rands' "The Dream Of A Girl Who Lived At Seven-Oaks" and "The Dream Of A Boy Who Lived At Nine-Elms" are heard in the lower voices, at different tempos, while the tenor sings Carroll's "Twinkle Twinkle Little Bat." The lively "Cuckoo in the Pear Tree" follows, with its regular "Cuckoo" refrain. "The Alphabet" is a quite beautiful setting of just the letters of the alphabet; it begins with a big dissonant chord a la Ligeti's choral work Lux Aeterna (1966). Later letters start to stand out: "x" is sinister sounding, "y" is ethereal, and "z" provides a lovely, quite tonal conclusion. "Flying Robert" is rhythmically lively, the whistling wind in the text represented by, what else, a loud whistle. These first four Madrigals were written in 1988. "The Lobster Quadrille" from the following year is another romp, as the whiting implores the snail to "join the dance." The set concludes with "A Long, Sad Tale," written in 1993, which employs two different Lewis Carroll texts. The Nonsense Madrigals as a whole are rather dissonant, but the melodic lines are appealingly clear, and the pervasive sense of humor is quite winning. Sources: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gy%C3%B... https://www.allmusic.com/composition/... Source videos: No.1:    • György Ligeti - Nonsense Madrigals [1/6]   No.2:    • György Ligeti - Nonsense Madrigals [2/6]   No.3:    • György Ligeti - Nonsense Madrigals [3/6]   No.4:    • György Ligeti - Nonsense Madrigals [4/6]   No.5:    • György Ligeti - Nonsense Madrigals [5/6]   No.6:    • György Ligeti - Nonsense Madrigals [6/6]