Liszt - Between Light and Darkness: Piano Works
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Label: Piano Classics
Cat No: PCL10201
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 2
Genre: Instrumental
Release Date: 9th October 2020
Contents
Works
Annees de Pelerinage, 2nd Year, S161En reve - Nocturne, S207
Harmonies poetiques et religieuses, S173
Nuages gris (Trube Wolken), S199
Odes Funebres (3), S112
Schlaflos! Frage und Antwort, S203
Unstern! - Sinistre - Disastro, S208
Artists
Vincent Larderet (piano)Works
Annees de Pelerinage, 2nd Year, S161En reve - Nocturne, S207
Harmonies poetiques et religieuses, S173
Nuages gris (Trube Wolken), S199
Odes Funebres (3), S112
Schlaflos! Frage und Antwort, S203
Unstern! - Sinistre - Disastro, S208
Artists
Vincent Larderet (piano)About
His previous albums have explored the hot-house world of Impressionism and late Romanticism, making the intoxicating world of late Liszt a natural progression. Pieces on the edge of silence and tonality such as Nuages gris and Unstern! demand at least as much refined nuance of touch and colour as the major cycles of Debussy and Ravel which Larderet has often performed in public.
In his own booklet introduction, the pianist explains that the aim of the album is to capture the unrivalled rainbow of emotions that span Liszt’s protean oeuvre for the piano. His genius in creating the genre of programme music, almost from scratch (with help from Beethoven and Berlioz), is celebrated by the inclusion of the Dante Sonata of 1849, which condenses and transfigures the narrative arc of the entire Divine Comedy within a single 17-minute span.
From four years later, the Second Ballade tells a Gothic tale of a night-ride, perhaps also the ancient Greek myth of Hero and Leander in which the hero drowns while attempting to swim across the Hellespont to visit his beloved, with the pianist called upon literally to produce wave upon wave of sound from his instrument in a masterpiece of tone-painting. The Funerailles anticipate the stern and enigmatic utterances of his very late period, condensing his rich harmonies and multi-layered voices to leave an ever-more imposing musical canvas which imbues each single note with significance and the overwhelming presence of mortality. The ‘sleepless’ vision of Schlaflos! seems to come from another world; Larderet concludes his unique love-letter to Liszt with En rêve, which paints a more consoling dreamscape.
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