Hommage a Liszt | Orfeo C990202

Hommage a Liszt

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Label: Orfeo

Cat No: C990202

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 2

Genre: Instrumental

Release Date: 21st February 2020

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Liszt’s Études represent a peak in the history of piano writing. Beyond the tremendous technical difficulties, Liszt’s Études are poetic works, études tableaux, suggesting programme music influenced by literature, painting, and folklore as can be identified by titles such as Mazeppa, Wilde Jagd, Gnomenreigen and Feux follets. Similar to Schumann, Liszt added those lyrical headings as an afterthought to stimulate the fantasy of both the listener and the performer, thus paving the path to piano playing as we know it today.

“I have chosen to bring here authentic testimonies regarding the Études from the late masterclasses he gave in Weimar, Pest, and Rome in the early 1880s, just a few years before his death in 1886. The testimonies are given by his students Carl Lachmund, August Göllerich, Vianna da Motta and Arthur Friedheim. These precious testimonies provide us with an original and inspired illustration that faithfully represents Liszt’s masterclasses and his artistic calling.” – Amir Katz

Reviews

the 12 Transcendental Studies [are] deftly executed with robust tempos and full-bodied tone. In some I prefer Trifonov … in others Katz is more dramatic and less uninhibited in driving the narrative forwards (‘Harmonies du soir’, for instance). Taken as a whole, this is a hugely impressive Liszt recital, ambitious in its scope, stylishly played and well recorded.  Jeremy Nicholas
Gramophone May 2020
Gramophone Editor's Choice

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