COMPOSERS: Heppener,Ligeti
LABELS: Harmonia Mundi
ALBUM TITLE: Ligeti • Heppener
WORKS: Ligeti: Lux aeterna; Drei Phantasien nach Friedrich Hölderlin, etc; Heppener: Im Gestein; Libera me, Domine
PERFORMER: Cappella Amsterdam; musikFabrik/Daniel Reuss
CATALOGUE NO: HMG 501985 (2008)
Superb acounts of Ligeti’s mesmerising Lux aeterna and the wildly beautiful Hölderlin Fantasies. Peter Heppener’s Im Gestein may not be quite so radically individual, but it also scintillates and stirs.
Stephen Johnson