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Von franz liszt
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von franz liszt

By the middle of the second page, I was floundering, but I had already received a constructive shock. One day, he placed in front of me the score of Franz Liszt’s Sonata in B Minor-a deceptively thin document of thirty-five pages. The idea was to experience the music from within, however pitiful the results. His first album with works by Franz Liszt (PCL10151) received rave reviews from the international press, among which the prestigious Gramaphone Critic’s Choice: “His highly developed technique and cultivated sound, both adaptable to a variety of affects, are wedded to those twin essentials for artistic Liszt-playing: imagination combined with thoroughgoing, scrupulous musicality.” His second album with the Beethoven/Liszt Symphony 5 and the Beethoven/Alkan 3rd Piano Concerto (PCL10224) made the critic of Fanfare declare Pierdomenico as “the Carlos Kleiber of the piano”.My high-school piano teacher, Denning Barnes, liked to assign me pieces that I had no hope of being able to play. This third recording for Piano Classics by young Italian pianist Leonardo Pierdomenico firmly establishes his position as one of the most promising artists of his generation. The Gretchen section from Liszt’s own Faust Symphony is the bridge towards the Totentanz, for piano solo, a wild and hallucinatory evocation of Death, through the quoting of the Gregorian hymn of Dies Irae, a masterpiece of unparalleled imagination and frenzy. This album offers a selection of Schubert’s song cycle Winterreise, the journey of a disillusioned young lover into oblivion and death.

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He transcribed a substantial quantity of them for piano solo, sometimes merely combining the existing solo voice and accompaniment, but also creating highly elaborate versions, full of virtuoso and intricate embellishments. Franz Liszt was fascinated by the songs of Schubert, in a time when the recognition of the Viennese genius was at a low tide. A new concept album by Leonardo Pierdomenico, in which Love and Death interact in their own merciful or lugubrious way.

von franz liszt

By contrast, Totentanz in its solo-piano version is a feat of pianistic imagination, based on the Dies Irae plainchant, to test the most technically assured performers.Īuthoritative notes by the pianist and scholar Mark Viner complete a set sure to draw the interest of all Lisztians. The recital’s still central point of reflection is supplied by Liszt’s transcription of Gretchen from his Faust Symphony: a loving but complex portrait of the object of Faust’s affections, a cantabile meditation magnificently sustained over almost 20 minutes. In a surprising twist, he follows it with the cycle’s otherwordly song evoking Der Leiermann, the hurdy-gurdy man. In Der Lindenbaum, Liszt he deploys all manner of flourishes to conjure up the tree’s rustling Along the journey, Liszt exercises all his powers of pianistic invention not merely to incorporate the song line within the piano part but to enrich Schubert’s music with his own sympathetic interpretation. Leonardo Pierdomenico now brings these Lisztian virtues to the songs from Winterreise which Liszt selected and arranged according to his own ordering, beginning like the original with ‘Gute Nacht’ but ending with the grim tavern scene of ‘Im Dorfe’. His highly developed technique and cultivated sound, both adaptable to a variety of affects, are wedded to those twin essentials for artistic Liszt-playing: imagination combined with thoroughgoing, scrupulous musicality.’ (Gramophone, September 2018) The album won widespread critical admiration: ‘Would that half the seasoned Lisztians I know had Pierdomenico’s keen ear for stylistic differentiation within this half-century of repertory. The young Italian pianist has already established himself as a Lisztian of renown and distinction through the Piano Classics album (PCL10151) including the Ballades, Legendes and Csardas macabre. Only two are presently available (one on fortepiano), making this new recording by Leonardo Pierdomenico a notable event, and coupled uniquely with two versions of Liszt’s own music.

von franz liszt

While Liszt’s version of 12 songs from Winterreise is the crowning glory of his Schubert transcriptions, there are surprisingly few recordings of the complete set.















Von franz liszt