Ligeti: Lux æterna & Other Vocal Works

György Ligeti was one of the most influential avant-garde post-war composers, having attained worldwide fame with a large audience thanks to the use of his Requiem and Lux æterna in Kubrick’s iconic science-fiction movie 2001: A Space Odyssey. As we celebrate on May 28th the centenary of this unmissable figure of contemporary music, let’s focus on his choral production whose most remarkable pieces have been gathered by the Groupe vocal de France. It includes the Lux æterna, Fantasies after poems by Hölderlin, the very surprising Hungarian Studies but also youth works composed under the patronage of Bartók and inspired by the Hungarian folklore.