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Music Matters: Ivan Fischer, Ligeti Centenary

Ivan Fischer, Ligeti Centenary

BBC Radio 3 - Music Matters, Ivan Fischer, Ligeti Centenary

Tom Service talks to conductor Iván Fischer plus the centenary of György Ligeti.

Tom Service talks to conductor and composer Iván Fischer ahead of his UK appearances with the Budapest Festival Orchestra this summer. Plus the centenary of György Ligeti.

Marking the centenary of Hungarian composer György Ligeti, Tom Service talks to musicians who knew him and who love his music.
Violinist Patricia Kopatchinskaja and composer and conductor Thomas Adès explore the musical universe of the Violin Concerto; pianist Tamara Stefanovich describes meeting the composer and the intensity and fragility required to perform his music; Tom joins composer Anna Meredith in her studio to listen to one of his last works, the Hamburg Concerto; and György Ligeti’s son, the composer and instrumentalist Lukas Ligeti reveals the passion he shared with his father for creating imaginary worlds, both musical and non-musical.

Tom also talks to conductor Iván Fischer - the founder of the acclaimed Budapest Festival Orchestra - ahead of his appearances at the BBC Proms and at Edinburgh International Festival this summer.  They discuss the difficulties of changing how symphony orchestras work, how his orchestra’s mission to bring music to the communities of Budapest translates when they’re on tour, and why mistakes are a very good thing.

Plus musicians and noise. With recent stories about noise complaints against both musicians rehearsing at home and long-established music venues, we talk to Clara Cullen from the Music Venues Trust, Stuart Darke from the Independent Society of Musicians and Lisa Lavia from the Noise Abatement Society about the law, the psychology and how to balance the needs of musicians with the rights of communities for peace and quiet.

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