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Liszt - Great Interpreters Play | Brilliant Classics 93786

Liszt - Great Interpreters Play

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Label: Brilliant Classics

Cat No: 93786

Barcode: 5028421937861

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 10

Release Date: 27th October 2008

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Contents

Artists

Earl Wild
Lazar Berman
Sviatoslav Richter
Gyorgy Cziffra
Vladimir Ovchinikov
Artur Pizarro
Emil Gilels
Alfred Brendel

Artists

Earl Wild
Lazar Berman
Sviatoslav Richter
Gyorgy Cziffra
Vladimir Ovchinikov
Artur Pizarro
Emil Gilels
Alfred Brendel

About

A must have collection of Liszt’s works for piano performed by some of the greatest interpreters of his music. With a premiere division line up of pianists this 10 CD set offers the listener two performances of the B minor sonata by Gilels (captured in 1949) and Richter, the late Lazar Berman plays the Dante Sonata, the Transcendental Etudes, the Years of Pilgrimage Book 1and the Mephisto Waltz No.1.

Recently retired Alfred Brendel is heard in the Three Sonnets after Petrach, the Paganini Etudes and a selection of opera paraphrases. The great Earl Wild puts his stamp on the Mephisto waltz No.1, and the Reminiscences from Robert leDiable, and Don Juan. The legendary Cziffra contributes more operatic paraphrases, this time Tannhauser and Rigoletto, plus Gnomenreigen and the Hungarian Rhapsody No.19. Expect the unexpected with Cziffra in this music – his performances were always at a white heat, and not for those of a delicate disposition! Listeners will have the opportunity to compare Vladimir Ovchinikov’s recording of the Transcendental Etudes with Berman’s. Berman’s recordings today are hard to come by and this is a welcome reissue of this remarkable and elusive artist. The younger generation is represented by the outstanding Artur Pizarro performing the Hungarian Rhapsodies.

The Brendel recordings are from his highly acclaimed Vox recordings from the late 1950s which critics have preferred to his later Philips recordings. ‘Brendel was from square one a devout Lisztian and a true believer, his adroit pacing, his unfailingly architectronic timing of detail and dramatic events gives him a Toscanini-like impact’ (Harris Goldsmith, on Brendel’s Weber/Liszt transcription of the Overture to Oberon).

'Wild finds exactly the right balance between devil-may-care energy and accurate virtuosity. Here on can sample Wild at something like his zenith as a Liszt player. Virtuosic, bordering on incendiary, but stand well back.’ (Gramophone).

Ovchinikov’s Transcendental Etudes: ‘Extremely fine pianism… a superb achievement outclassing Bolet and Arrau in just about every department. Ovchinikov has set the standard and set it high.’ (Gramophone)

Comprehensive booklet essay included.

Tracklisting


CD 1

Réminiscences de ‘Robert le Diable’ de Meyerbeer: Valse infernale
Gnomenreigen
Mephisto Polka
Mephisto Waltz No.1
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
Réminiscences de ‘Don Juan’
Charles Gounod (1818-1893)
Waltz from ‘Faust’
 
Earl Wild piano
 
CD 2
Années de pèlerinage
Book I: Suisse (Switzerland) – selection
Chapelle de Guillaume Tell
Au lac de Wallenstadt
Vallée d’Obermann
Le Mal du Pays
Les Cloches de Genève
Piano Sonata in B minor
 
Lazar Berman piano (1-5)
Sviatoslav Richter piano (6)
 
CD 3
Paraphrases and transcriptions
Richard Wagner (1813-1883)
Tannhäuser (Wagner)
Giuseppe Verdi (1813-1901)
Rigoletto
Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy (1809-1847)
A Midsummer Night’s Dream: Wedding March & Dance of the Fairies
Daniel François Esprit Auber (1782-1871)
La Muette de Portici

Grand galop chromatique
Valse oubliée No.1
Waldesrauschen
Les Jeux d’eau à la Villa d’Este
Gnomenreigen
Valse-Impromptu
Hungarian Rhapsody No.19
 
György Cziffra piano
 
CD 4
Études d’éxécution transcendante
 
Vladimir Ovchinikov piano
 
CD 5
Hungarian Rhapsodies
No.1 in C sharp minor
No.2 in C sharp minor
No.3 in B flat major
No.4 in E flat major
No.5 in E minor ‘Héroïde-Élégiaque’
No.6 in D flat major
No.7 in D minor
No.8 in F sharp minor
No.9 in E flat major ‘Pesther Carneval’
 
Artur Pizarro piano
 
CD 6
Hungarian Rhapsodies
No.10 in E major
No.11 in A minor
No.12 in C sharp minor
No.13 in A minor
No.14 in F minor
No.15 in A minor ‘Rákóczy March’
No.16 in A minor
No.17 in D minor
No.18 in F sharp minor
No.19 in D minor
 
Artur Pizarro piano
 
CD 7
Waldesrauschen
Gnomenreigen
Liebestraum No.3 in A flat
Mephisto Waltz No.1
Les Jeux d’eau à la Villa d’Este
Piano Sonata in B minor
 
Emil Gilels piano
 
CD 8
Opera transcriptions and paraphrases
Gaetano Donizetti (1797-1848)
Lucia di Lammermoor: Sextet
Giuseppe Verdi (1813-1901)
Il trovatore: Miserere
Vincenzo Bellini (1801-1835)
Norma Fantasy
Carl Maria von Weber (1766-1828)
Oberon Overture
Hector Berlioz (1803-1869)
Benvenuto Cellini: Benediction & Oath
Richard Wagner (1813-1883)
Tannhäuser: Pilgrims’ Chorus

Paganini Études

Tremolo
Octave in E flat
La campanella
Arpeggio
La Chasse
Variations
 
Alfred Brendel piano
 
CD 9
Années de pèlerinage – Deuxième Année: Italie
Tre sonetti di Petrarca
No.47
No.104
No.123
Venezia e Napoli – Tarantella

Harmonies poétiques et religieuses
Invocation
Bénédiction de Dieu dans la solitude
Pensées des morts
Funérailles
Cantique d’amour
 
Alfred Brendel piano
 
CD 10
Sonata ‘Après une lecture de Dante’ (from Années de pèlerinage II: Italie)
Mephisto Waltz No.1
Études d’éxécution transcendante – selection:
Prélude
Paysage
Feux follets
Vision
Appassionata
Harmonies du soir
Chasse-neige
Rhapsodie espagnole
 
Lazar Berman piano

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