12 Mar 2022

LIGETI: Hora lungă, from Viola Sonata

From Music Alive, 10:01 pm on 12 March 2022

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Performed by Mark Menzies (viola) at the concert 4:7, "Dualities", Unitarian Church, Ponsonby, Auckland, 3 June 2021.

Mark Menzies

Mark Menzies Photo: Supplied

Hora lungă is the first movement of György Ligeti's Viola Sonata and takes its influences from a Romanian folksong style – "hora lungă" means “long song”.

The entire movement is played on the C string ... the lowest string of the viola.

Recorded by RNZ Concert
Producer, engineer: Tim Dodd

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