From the Lebrecht Album of the Week:
It’s 30 years since I heard Gyorgy Ligeti explain why he was allowing his first string quartet to be performed after four decades lying in a drawer. The quartet, composed in 1954, was too close to its sources. “It’s Bartók’s seventh,” said Ligeti, “but I’ve now realised that’s not such a bad thing.”
Titled Metamorphoses Nocturnes, the quartet has buzzing insects, whispering grasses and many things that go bump in the night….
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