György Ligeti - Hungarian Rock / Anthony Romaniuk

Recorded live at the Lauenen church as part of the Menuhin Festival in Gstaad, Switzerland in August 2016. Harpsichord by Jean-Michel Chabloz. More from the same concert available at: A few notes about the performance by Anthony Romaniuk: Given the acoustic of both the instrument and the venue in addition to the reactiveness of the action, I chose a slightly more relaxed tempo for this performance. The melodic figures are hence proportionately more singing, leading to a somewhat baroque-esque interpretation. Additionally, there is some disagreement in the community of players about how to interpret the rhythm of the ostinato, particularly on the first page before the complicated RH figures really take over. The dedicatee of the work seems to have slightly altered the written rhythm, squaring it to make a more regular (and hence more rock-y) pattern - which of course needs to be