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Liszt: Complete works for Piano & Orchestra | Brilliant Classics 93700

Liszt: Complete works for Piano & Orchestra

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Label: Brilliant Classics

Cat No: 93700

Barcode: 5028421937007

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 3

Genre: Orchestral

Release Date: 14th July 2008

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Beyond the two piano concertos and occasional performances of Totentanz, little is heard of Liszt’s music for piano and orchestra, though an interest in the composer sparked by ‘complete’ sets of his vast output has lately increased attention on this spectacular music.

What was already grand or passionate in themes by his predecessors, Liszt magnifies and intensifies in works such as the Fantasia on a theme from Beethoven’s ‘Ruins of Athens’, the Wanderer Fantasie after Schubert and the Grande Fantaisie Symphonique on themes from Berlioz’s ‘Lelio’, demanding the kind of bravura that only the finest of today’s pianists, such as Louis Lortie and Nelson Freire, can match up to.

This set also contains a rare recording of the Piano Concerto No.3, reconstructed from sketches.

Louis Lortie plays all these works with immaculate brio, where necessary tempering bravura with restraint, and makes the best possible case for the music. He is admirably partnered throughout, and the sound and balance are natural and refined.’ - Gramophone

Contents:
CD 1
1. Malédiction, for piano & string orchestra

Grande Fantaisie symphonique on themes from Berlioz’s ‘Lelio’  
2. Lento
3. Allegro vivace  
4. Andantino, senza interruzione-vivace animato
 
De profundis  
Psaume instrumentale for piano & orchestra  
5. Andante  
6. Allegro moderato
7. Tempo primo-allegro-allegro marziale   
        
Total:  73:32  
 
Louis Lortie, piano
Residentie Orchestra The Hague · George Pehlivanian
 
CD 2
Piano Concerto No.1 in E flat major  
1. Allegro   
2. Quasi adagio  
3. Allegretto vivace   
4. Allegro animato   
5. Allegro marziale animato

Piano Concerto No.2 in A major  
6. Adagio sostenuto assai
7. Allegro agitato assai
8. Allegro moderato
9. Allegro deciso sempre allegro  
10. Marziale, un poco meno allegro
11. Allegro animato
 
12. Totentanz, Paraphrase on ‘Dies irae’   
13. Piano Concerto No.3 in E flat major Op. posth.
        
Total:  67:25  
 
Nelson Freire, piano (1–12)
Dresdner Philharmonie · Michel Plasson (1–12)
Stephen Mayer, piano (13)
London Symphony Orchestra · Tamás Vásáry (13)
 
CD 3
1. Fantasia on a theme from Beethoven’s ‘Ruins of Athens’
2. Polonaise brillante, after Carl Maria von Weber  
3. Concerto pathétique, in E minor  
4. Fantasy on Hungarian Folk Tunes   

Wanderer-Fantasie for piano & orchestra, after Schubert’s Op.15 in C major  
5. Allegro con fuoco, ma non troppo   
6. Adagio  
7. Presto
8. Allegro   
        
Total:  72:45  
 
Louis Lortie, piano
Residentie Orchestra The Hague · George Pehlivanian

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