Ramble with Hair Dryers, Crumbs and Puccini’s Rifle

In Lanza and Valle’s four-part opus, toys, kitchen gadgets and broken machines combine with non-standard instrumental sounds.

Eötvös, Vidovszky, Szollosy: Hungarian Holiday 1.

I have been meaning to tackle some Hungarian composers and a few colorful Budapest Music Center releases for quite some time, even before Ligeti’s passing (June 12, 2006) made the stack shift ever so slightly.