Liszt: Reve d'Amour

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Release Date: 4th Jul 2011
Catalogue No: 0840282
Label: Erato
Series: Virgo
Length: 75 minutes

Liszt: Liebestraum, S541 No. 3 (Nocturne in A flat major)

Work length5:34

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Kun-Woo Paik (piano)
Recorded: 1990-06-30
Recording Venue: June 1990, Blackheath Concert Halls, London

Liszt: 6 Consolations, S. 172: No. 3 in D-Flat Major

Work length3:55

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François-René Duchâble (piano)
Recorded: 1996-10-03
Recording Venue: 1-3.X.1996. Chartreuse de Villeneuve-lez-Avignon.

Liszt: 6 Grandes études de Paganini, S. 141: No. 3 La Campanella

Work length4:26

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François-René Duchâble (piano)
Recorded: 1996-10-03
Recording Venue: 1-3.X.1996. Chartreuse de Villeneuve-lez-Avignon.

Liszt: Ballade No. 2 in B minor, S171 / R16

Work length13:02

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François-René Duchâble (piano)
Recorded: 1996-10-03
Recording Venue: 1-3.X.1996. Chartreuse de Villeneuve-lez-Avignon.

Liszt: 3 Etudes de concert, S. 144: No. 3 Un sospiro

Work length5:23

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François-René Duchâble (piano)
Recorded: 1996-10-03
Recording Venue: 1-3.X.1996. Chartreuse de Villeneuve-lez-Avignon.

Liszt: Années de pèlerinage, Troisième année "Italie", S. 163: No. 4, Les jeux d'eau à la Villa d'Este

Work length7:43

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Stephen Hough (piano)
Recorded: 1991-03-31
Recording Venue: June 1990 & March 1991 / Studio 7, BBC Manchester

Liszt: Mephisto Waltz No. 1

Work length10:45

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Stephen Hough (piano)
Recorded: 1987-08-15
Recording Venue: 13-15 August 1987 / Henry Wood Hall, London

Liszt: Harmonies poétiques et religieuses III, S. 173: No. 3, Bénédiction de Dieu dans la solitude

Work length17:46

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Stephen Hough (piano)
Recorded: 1987-08-15
Recording Venue: 13-15 August 1987 / Henry Wood Hall, London

Wagner: Mort D'Isolde (Extr. De Tristan Und Isolde)

Work length6:58

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Mikhail Rudy
Recorded: 1989-01-01

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An incomparably gifted pianist, Liszt was a stunning virtuoso, the creator of the solo recital and the father of modern piano technique, as well as being an intensely spiritual artist and a noble composer. “Liszt is not a pianist, he is a poet, whether he plays his own music or that of others,” Théophile Gautier wrote. The influence of the man who Lamartine called “the king of the piano” on the development of piano music was immense, and his piano music amounted to a passionate overture pointing the way to the future of the art.

Liszt considered virtuosity of the kind that makes such a powerful impression in his “Campanella” study (based on one of Paganini’s Caprices for solo violin) or the Mephisto Waltz to be a vital ingredient of the music and not an end in itself. A great admirer of Wagner’s harmonic language, he produced a number of transcriptions of the music of Wagner, which he realised with great brilliance.

Liszt took minor orders in 1863, and several of his works – such as Bénédiction de Dieu dans la solitude, the third piece in the Harmonies poétiques et religieuses (a title borrowed from Lamartine) – can be seen as central to his spiritual quest. He could also be lyrical, as in the celebrated Nocturne, which has become better known under the title Liebestraum, and melancholy or intimate, as in the Consolations, which he dedicated to Victor Hugo. As for the Jeux d’eau a la Villa d’Este (from the Années de pèlerinage), the extraordinary impressionism of this piece look forward to Ravel’s Jeux d’eau.

Liszt: Reve d'Amour

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