Liszt - Scherzo & March, 2 Ballades, La Romanesca, 2 Legendes, Csardas macabre
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Label: Piano Classics
Cat No: PCL10151
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 1
Genre: Instrumental
Release Date: 22nd June 2018
Contents
Works
Ballade no.1 in D flat major, S170Ballade no.2 in B minor, S171
Csardas macabre, S224
La Romanesca, S252a
Legendes (2), S175
Scherzo and March, S177
Artists
Leonardo Pierdomenico (piano)Works
Ballade no.1 in D flat major, S170Ballade no.2 in B minor, S171
Csardas macabre, S224
La Romanesca, S252a
Legendes (2), S175
Scherzo and March, S177
Artists
Leonardo Pierdomenico (piano)About
At 24 years of age, Pierdomenico has also been a first-prize winner at the 2011 Premio Venezia Piano Competition held in La Fenice in Venice, and a semifinalist at the 2016 Queen Elisabeth International Piano Competition. Born in Pescara, he has performed across Italy having graduated from his local conservatoire, as well as giving recitals in major venues in Berlin and Brussels.
Liszt is a natural choice for his debut recital. However, Pierdomenico has largely chosen the path less well trodden in his selection from Liszt’s vast oeuvre. He has concentrated on the brooding, melancholic and introverted sides of the composer’s multifaceted personality. The Csárdás macabre is one of Liszt’s most radical conceptions, with sequences that push at the boundaries of tonality. The two Légendes are based on the miracles of two of the composer’s namesake Saints, St. Francis of Assisi, who allegedly preached a sermon to an attentive flock of birds, and St. Francis of Paola who, legend has it, crossed the Strait of Messina fashioning a vessel from his cloak and staff after a ferryman refused him passage. As well as the justly ubiquitous Second Ballade, Pierdomenico gives a rare outing to the ‘crusader’s song’ of the First; another rarity is the single-movement Scherzo und Marsch which finds the composer in heroic vein, replete with demanding fugato sections and rapier-like arpeggios.
This new recording is further distinguished by booklet notes on the individual pieces by a slightly older Liszt pianist of distinction, Mark Viner, who has also made several critically acclaimed recordings for the Piano Classics label.
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