Liszt - Complete Piano Music Vol.58: Music on National Themes | Naxos 8574147

Liszt - Complete Piano Music Vol.58: Music on National Themes

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Label: Naxos

Cat No: 8574147

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 1

Genre: Instrumental

Release Date: 14th May 2021

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Franz Liszt was involved in years of travel as a virtuoso pianist, enjoying the wildest adulation of audiences in a frenzied period that became known as Lisztomania. The appeal of his programmes included appropriate national tributes, and Liszt had recourse to varied musical sources as stimulus for these kinds of composition. From the lovely Canzone napolitana that uses a melody of unknown origin and the Hungarian Folk Songs that formed part of Liszt’s triumphant return to his native land, to a spectacular paraphrase of God Save the Queen that might have amused Queen Victoria, these rousing musical gifts are all evidence of a composer/pianist at the height of his inventiveness.

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