In this throwback, almost vintage performance, cellist Matt Haimovitz performs the furious second movement of Ligeti’s Solo Sonata for Cello. 

Haimovitz shares his experiences of working closely with Ligeti on the piece, ’It was incredible because Ligeti wasn’t a cellist himself but he knew precisely what could be done on the instrument’

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