György Ligeti: Volumina (Nicholas Papadimitriou, Sauer Organ, Orgelpark)
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- György Ligeti (1923-2006), Volumina (1961/62, 1966)
Live performance by Nicholas Papadimitriou on the Sauer Organ in the 'Orgelpark', Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
Part of the "Orgelsolo's uit alle landen" Concert, November 28th, 2014.
Audio recording: Orgelpark
Assistant: André Ferreira
For more information about upcoming concerts and more, visit:
www.nicholaspapadimitriou.com
Some Background information about G.Ligeti as well as Volumina:
"György Ligeti began teaching regularly in Stockholm in 1961, and it was for the Swedish organist Karl-Erik Welin that he wrote Volumina for organ solo at the instigation of Hans Otte. Volumina came hard on the heels of Ligeti's first altogether successful foray into composing with masses of sound, Atmosphères for orchestra (1961). Ligeti's technique of composing with what he called "moveable clusters" began with Víziók, started in Budapest in 1956 before the composer fled Hungary. After arriving in Cologne (where for a time he stayed with Stockhausen), Ligeti became exposed to the new musical thinking of Stockhausen and Boulez, and started working in the electronic music studio. Ligeti's idea of composing by building up many levels of sound began to take shape. He used the technique in parts of Apparitions (1958-59) before applying it wholeheartedly in Atmosphères. The dense layers of sound in that piece are made up of many individual parts; one section is a forty-eight voice mirror canon, with each string player playing a similar but rhythmically variant version of a short melodic motif. For the single organist (with assistants to work the stops) in Volumina, of course, that approach was impossible. Ligeti instead thought of the moving clusters as blocks of sound. He indicated general pitch areas and durations by using thick black lines; a wavy line or "squiggle" might mean a brief flurry of individual notes. Volumina begins with all the stops pulled out and every key of one manual depressed, and this combination made the motor of the Göteborg organ catch fire during a practice run. The church council at Bremen, where the premiere was scheduled to take place, cancelled the live performance when they heard about the fire in the Göteborg organ. The premiere of Volumina took place in May 1962 at the Bremen Cathedral via a tape recording of Karl-Erik Welin's performance of the piece at Göteborg. Welin later premiered the revised version of Volumina in Kiel in May 1968. Volumina is about fifteen minutes in length."
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"Volumina begins with all the stops pulled out and every key of one manual depressed, and this combination made the motor of the Göteborg organ catch fire during a practice run." Yeah, Ligeti's Music is _lit_
Yeah sex is cool but have you ever made an organ catch fire?
I can't describe how fantastic this music is,brilient😮😮😮
Great music, the heavy metal of modern classical
Free beats to study/relax to
Guy: Here, borrow my organ.
Ligeti: OK. Turn up the Volumina.
lmao
This is what LSD sounds like
Excellent performance! Wonderful piece! Thank you for uploading it!
***** Thanks a lot for your kind comment!
I'm glad you liked it.
This music is so beautiful sounds like stars ⭐️ falling out of the sky 🌌
It is such a joy to hear 🥲
Damn. Today I learned.
Overnight I had a dream where we had stopped next to a stalled car. A woman got out of the car and her fine white shirt had as its design a lot of examples of real music but interspersed throughout that musical motif with splotches of the Volumina score of about 4 1/2 minutes into the score. Took me by surprise. I asked her, “Do you know what the music is?” She replied, “No.” I then told her, “It`s an organ piece titled ‘Volumina’ so that you can look it up on TH-cam later.” Then the dream sort of fizzled away.
...Maybe you should get that checked 🤣
How do I read this sheet music..
Ligeti actually features instructions at the beginning of the piece regarding the notation and the interpretation thereof.
@@NicholasPapadimitriou1993 I've seen videos which include those kinds of instructions before the score itself begins. I think it'd really add to the video!
Sure
why didn't you play at Trump's Inauguration event?
Stephanus Maximilian hahaha, I would rename the piece to "Nuclear War".
Gerd Zacher quoted Ligeti as saying that the composer wrote the piece to express how he felt about the Soviet Union invading Hungary, his homeland.
Eh... interesting
이게 뭐임 무서워
Yeah man
No music, only noise
Fair enough!
No noise, only music. Everything is music.
I'm rather convinced this piece is a sort of a joke
not when you hear it in "2001: A Space Odyssey"
The title means "cavities", and was meant by the composer to reflect his reaction to the Soviet Union invading Hungary, his homeland. No joke here...
However, this performance denatures the work considerably. Much is too fast: the composer specifies that its overall duration should be about 16 minutes. Each page is to last 45 seconds. This is spelled out in detail in the extensive instructions given at the end of the score... which, sadly, more than one 21st century organist has ignored completely, to the piece 's detriment.
@@sebastianzaczek It was never used in 2001. I think you are confusing it with Atmospheres, to which it bears a slight resemblance..