Singer: György Ligeti
Title: Le Grand Macabre
Label: Sony Classical ‎– S2K 62312, Sony Classical ‎– 01-062312-10
Series: György Ligeti Edition – 8
Type: 2 x CD, Album
Country: Europe
Date of released: 1999
Category: Classical
Style: Opera, Contemporary
Size MP3 zip: 1311 mb
Size FLAC zip: 1459 mb
Rating: 5.0✭
Format: MP3 AA MP1 AC3 AUD ADX WMA TTA FLAC

Tracklist

Le Grand Macabre. Opera In Four Scenes (1997 Version)	102:27
1-1	Car Horn Prelude	0:57
Scene 1
1-2	Dies Irae	6:22
1-3	Away, You Swagpot!	2:26
1-4	Shut Up	4:13
1-5	Oh...! - Amanda Can Do No More	0:41
1-6	Ha-ha-ha-ha! Hey! Give Me My Requisites	3:04
1-7	Melting Snow Is Thy Breast	2:36
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1-8	Second Car Horn Prelude	0:41
Scene 2
1-9	One! Two! Three! Five!	7:54
1-10	Shapely And Attractive Figure	3:19
1-11	Venus! Venus!	1:33
1-12	Stop! - Sh! ... Quiet, For Heaven's Sake!	3:30
1-13	Who's There? A Man? - A Man	2:23
1-14	Finale: Fire And Death I Bring	3:27
Scene 3
2-1	Doorbell Prelude	0:56
2-2	Arse-Licker, Arse-Licker	3:35
2-3	Posture Exercices!	2:27
2-4	Tsk... - Psssst! - Ha! Head Of My Secret Service!	6:21
2-5	Ahhh! ... Secret Cypher!	5:36
2-6	Hurray! Hurray! My Wife Is Dead	2:00
2-7	Nekrotzar's Entrance	3:18
2-8	Woe! Ooh! - For The Day Of Wrath	3:17
2-9	Ther's No Nead To Fear	3:02
2-10	Up! - Drink! - Up!	1:28
2-11	Galimatias: Hmm! It's Delicious!	4:45
2-12	Where Am I? What Time Is It?	5:46
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2-13	Interlude	1:34
Scene 4
2-14	Ghost Astradamors, Are You Dead?	3:39
Mirror Canon
2-15	Nekrotzar's Death	2:03
Finale. Passacaglia
2-16	Ah, It Was Good	5:07

Companies, etc.

• Phonographic Copyright (p) – Sony Music Entertainment Inc.
• Copyright (c) – Sony Music Entertainment Inc.
• Distributed By – Sony Music
• Recorded At – Théatre du Châtelet, Paris

Credits

• Baritone Vocals [Black Minister] – Richard Stuart
• Baritone Vocals [Nekrotzar] – Willard White
• Baritone Vocals [Ruffiack] – Martin Winkler
• Baritone Vocals [Schabernack] – Michael Lessiter
• Baritone Vocals [Schobiack] – Marc Campbell-Griffiths
• Bass Vocals [Astradamors] – Frode Olsen
• Chorus – London Sinfonietta Voices*
• Chorus Master – Grant Gershon
• Chorus Master [Chorus Director] – Terry Edwards
• Composed By, Liner Notes – György Ligeti
• Conductor – Esa-Pekka Salonen
• Countertenor Vocals [Prince Go-go] – Derek Lee Ragin
• Cover – Nicky Lindeman
• Edited By – Matthew Cocker
• Libretto By – György Ligeti, Michael Meschke
• Mastered By – Tony Bridge
• Mezzo-soprano Vocals [Amando] – Charlotte Hellekant
• Mezzo-soprano Vocals [Mescalina] – Jard Van Nes
• Orchestra – Philharmonia Orchestra
• Producer – Ulrich Schneider
• Recorded By – Marcus Herzog
• Soprano Vocals [Amanda] – Laura Claycomb
• Soprano Vocals [Gepopo, Venus] – Sibylle Ehlert
• Supervised By [Technical Supervisor] – Dirk Lachmann
• Technician [Assistant] – Peter Brandt, Taco Van Der Werf
• Tenor Vocals [Piet De Pot] – Graham Clark
• Tenor Vocals [White Minister] – Steven Cole

Notes

Recorded live in Paris, France, at the Théâtre du Châtelet on February 5, 7, 9, 11 and 13, 1998,
during the Salzburger Festspiele/Théâtre du Châtelet co-production

© 1999 Sony Music Entertainment Inc.
℗ 1999 Sony Music Entertainment Inc.

Made in Austria
Printed in Holland

Jewel case and 194-page booklet housed in a slipcase
Booklet includes full libretto in German, French and English

Barcode and Other Identifiers

• Barcode (Text): 0 7464-62312-2 7
• Barcode (Scanned): 074646231227
• Label Code: LC 06868
• Rights Society: SACEM/BIEM
• Other (Spars Code): DDD

Other versions

Category	Artist	Title (Format)	Label	Category	Country	Year
S2K 62312	György Ligeti – Philharmonia Orchestra, Esa-Pekka Salonen	György Ligeti – Philharmonia Orchestra, Esa-Pekka Salonen - Le Grand Macabre ‎(2xCD, Album, RP)	Sony Classical	S2K 62312	Europe	2017
S2K 62312	György Ligeti	Opera: Le Grand Macabre ‎(2xCD, Album)	Sony Classical	S2K 62312	US	1999

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