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Liszt - Piano Music Vol.26 | Naxos 8570516

Liszt - Piano Music Vol.26

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Label: Naxos

Cat No: 8570516

Barcode: 0747313051670

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 1

Release Date: 1st October 2007

Contents

Works

Liszt, Franz

Annees de Pelerinage, 2nd Year, S161
» no.7 Apres une lecture du Dante 'Fantasia quasi Sonata'
Dante Symphony for two pianos and chorus, S648

Artists

Franz Liszt Piano Duo (Vittorio Bresciani/Francesco Nicolosi)
Hungarian Radio Children’s Choir
Barbara Szmodics (treble)

Conductor

Gabriella Thesz

Works

Liszt, Franz

Annees de Pelerinage, 2nd Year, S161
» no.7 Apres une lecture du Dante 'Fantasia quasi Sonata'
Dante Symphony for two pianos and chorus, S648

Artists

Franz Liszt Piano Duo (Vittorio Bresciani/Francesco Nicolosi)
Hungarian Radio Children’s Choir
Barbara Szmodics (treble)

Conductor

Gabriella Thesz

About

Naxos have really shifted into overdrive with this magnificent series.” MusicWeb

Volume 26 in the 'Complete Piano Music Edition' presents the first disc of Liszt’s two pianos arrangements.

Inspired by a reading of the Divina Commedia during a stay in Italy, Liszt began work on his fragment dantesque in the autumn of 1839 and gave its première in Vienna on 5th December. The piece was to be reworked by Liszt at Weimar to form the seventh piece in his Années de pèlerinage, deuxième année (Italie).

Widely known as the Dante Sonata, here in Vittorio Bresciani’s arrangement for two pianos, the work opens with ominous descending chords suggesting the entrance to Hell, with its forbidding ‘Lasciate ogni speranza, voi che entrate’ (‘Abandon all hope, you who enter’).

In 1847 Liszt turned again to Dante, making his first sketches for a proposed symphony, eventually completed in 1856 and arranged for two pianos by 1859. The Dante Symphony had its first under-rehearsed and disastrous performance in Dresden in 1857, but won gradual acceptance, and the two-piano version remained part of Liszt’s own repertoire.

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