Liszt: Transcendental Studies, S139 Nos. 1-12

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Gugnin’s new disc is nothing short of disarming. This is some of the finest Liszt-playing one is likely to encounter these days, rich with affective contrasts, pliant and organic rubato, an... — Gramophone Magazine, March 2019 More…

Release Date: 16th Nov 2018
Catalogue No: PCL10158
Label: Piano Classics
Length: 65 minutes

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Liszt: Transcendental Studies, S139 Nos. 1-12

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Andrey Gugnin (piano)
Recorded: 2-3 February 2018
Recording Venue: Westvest Church, Schiedam, Netherlands

No. 1 in C Major, "Preludio"

Track length0:50

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No. 2 in A Minor, "Fusées"

Track length2:10

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No. 3 in F Major, "Paysage"

Track length4:54

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No. 4 in D Minor, "Mazeppa"

Track length7:27

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No. 5 in B-Flat Major, "Feux follets"

Track length3:43

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No. 6 in G Minor, "Vision"

Track length5:44

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No. 7 in E-Flat Major, "Eroica"

Track length4:30

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No. 8 in C Minor, "Wilde Jagd"

Track length5:07

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No. 9 in A-Flat Major, "Ricordanza"

Track length11:39

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No. 10 in F Minor, "Appassionata"

Track length4:18

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No. 11 in D-Flat Major, "Harmonies du soir"

Track length10:10

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No. 12 in B Minor, "Chasse-neige"

Track length5:09

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A famously demanding summit of the Romantic piano literature performed by a Russian artist of prodigious talents.

Having gained the Gold Medal and the Audience Award at the XVI International Gina Bachauer Piano Competition in 2014, Andrey Gugnin (b.1987) is in huge demand as both a concert and recording artist. Following that particular competition success (one of many, including the Sydney International Piano Competition in 2016), Gugnin recorded Pictures at an Exhibition, which has become a tour de force for Gugnin on recent tours of Europe, America and Asia.

Glenn Gould, Emil Gilels and Sergei Rachmaninov are Gugnin’s ‘piano heroes’: the last two noted exponents of Franz Liszt in their own right, and among the composer’s vast output, still only a fraction of which is generally known, the Transcendental Etudes are the pre-eminent works to embody the contradictions and contrasts at the heart of the man and his music: ‘transcendent’ both in terms of the demands they make upon the performer and yet, at points, in their spiritual aspirations.

‘Half Franciscan, half gypsy’ was Liszt’s own description of himself, not entirely ironic, and it chimes with the extraordinary variety of these studies, encapsulated by the expressive distance between the last two, the visionary ‘Harmonies du soir’ and the unstoppable force of ‘Chasse-Neige’: ‘a sublime and steady fall of snow which gradually buries landscape and people’ according to Ferruccio Busoni. In Andrey Gugnin these studies find a pianist with both the technique and the sensibility to encompass the precipitous leaps of ‘Wilde Jagd’ and the Mendelssohnian eye for landscape in ‘Paysage’.

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Gugnin’s new disc is nothing short of disarming. This is some of the finest Liszt-playing one is likely to encounter these days, rich with affective contrasts, pliant and organic rubato, an exquisitely calibrated dynamic spectrum and a beguiling cantabile that speaks simply and directly.

Liszt: Transcendental Studies, S139 Nos. 1-12

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