BACKGROUND TO…

Ligeti’s Lux Aeterna

igeti’s spacious and otherworldly choral masterpiece was. A fairly inauspicious start, perhaps, but two years later millions would be exposed to the work thanks to its inclusion on the soundtrack to Stanley Kubrick’s film . Written for 16 voices, takes its lead from a Catholic mass and Ligeti employs complex harmonies and sound clusters that bring about visions of light from a world beyond our own.