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Bart贸k wasn鈥檛 the first composer to write a Concerto for Orchestra, but freewheeling virtuosity and rhythmic energy set this one apart. Treating individual instruments as soloists or partners in exhilarating duets-to-the-death, Bart贸k reinvents the orchestra itself. The whole classical canon seems dissolved in Ligeti鈥檚 Lontano, in which familiar harmonies and styles are suspended in space and time, and resolution continually hangs just out of reach. Turning classical rules of development on their head, Boulez鈥檚 鈥樷�� explosante-fixe 鈥︹�� works backwards, moving from its most complex material to its primary, original source (see also PSM 4, 29 August). It鈥檚 audacious and completely compelling.