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Written barely more than a...(more) decade after Atmospheres, Ligeti's Double Concerto for Flute and Oboe of 1972 doesn't sound much like that earlier work; in the composer's own words, the "static, self-erasing web became more illuminated; divergent, heterogeneous and contrasting musical motion nestled its way into the complex of sound." But if one listens closely, the same path is being trodden. The ensemble is now smaller and foregrounds two soloists and its own fragile lines, and one vast slow movement has become two smaller movements, a slow and a fast one. But the same musical drama holds—the attempt to bring something to mind, to search, find, and articulate an elusive state.