Loop: Ligeti’s Inspiration & Legacy
Acis, 2022
8/10
Listen to Loop: Ligeti’s Inspiration & Legacy
The impressive violist Rose Wollman honors the 100th anniversary of the birth of composer György Ligeti with these baroque versus newly commissioned pieces that are as unpredictable as they are intelligent.
Bach’s “Suite No. 5 in C Minor, BWV 1011:1 Prelude” starts the listen with Wollman’s stirring strings emitting much beauty and grace, and “Sonata for Viola Solo I. Hora Lunga” follows with an absorbing intimacy as her skilled playing really tugs on the heartstrings.
Deeper down the line, “Solo for Viola and Electronics” is quite creative, where the synthetic and organic are paired with much mystery, while “Wanderlust”, an original, moves with slow burning approach of cautiously bowed strings and twinkling, plucked moments.
Nearing the end, “Caprice Fourteen (Gyorgy)” displays very exciting, sometimes intense manipulation of her instrument in cinematic ways, and Natalie Williams’ “Ciklus” exits the listen with gentle ebbs of reflective, eloquent song craft.
A very rich, technical and often moving listen, Wollman’s techniques and tonal range makes all 18 tracks here fascinating and even enlightening.
Travels well with: Shawn Crouch- Chaos Theory; Arlen Hlusko & Scott Ordway- Nineteen Movements For Unaccompanied Cello