Liszt - Unrivalled: Piano Works
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Label: Odradek Records
Cat No: ODRCD428
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 1
Genre: Instrumental
Release Date: 15th April 2022
Contents
Works
La lugubre gondola I, S200/1Lieder (6) von Gellert (Beethoven), S467
Piano Sonata in B minor, S178
Scherzo and March, S177
Unstern! - Sinistre - Disastro, S208
Valse de concert sur deux motifs de Lucia et Parisina (Donizetti), S214 no.3
Artists
Michael Kaykov (piano)Works
La lugubre gondola I, S200/1Lieder (6) von Gellert (Beethoven), S467
Piano Sonata in B minor, S178
Scherzo and March, S177
Unstern! - Sinistre - Disastro, S208
Valse de concert sur deux motifs de Lucia et Parisina (Donizetti), S214 no.3
Artists
Michael Kaykov (piano)About
Of these Beethoven songs we hear Liszt's arrangements of the noble, imposing 'Gottes Macht und Vorsehung' ('God's Might and Providence'), and the sombre 'Busslied' or 'Song of Penitence' – a perfect fusion of Beethoven's original material with Liszt's enriched pianism. When Liszt joined Wagner and his wife Cosima – Liszt's daughter – in Venice in 1882, he became fixated on the passing funeral gondolas and went on to write two versions of the dark-hued La lugubre gondola. Michael Kaykov plays the second version, which is even more uncompromising than the first, its tonally ambiguous soundworld typical of Liszt's late output. Written a year earlier, Liszt's impressionistic Nuages gris has achieved almost legendary status as a work that paves the way towards modernity, with its twinging dissonances, loose approach to tonality and haunting ending. Also dating from 1881, Unstern! ('Unlucky!') shows just how forward-looking Liszt's music became, with bare tritones, whole tones, jarring dissonances and a terrifying climax.
Liszt's staggeringly demanding Scherzo und Marsch combines two movements into one larger structure – a principle that would be taken to further extremes in the Sonata in B minor. This work is one of the most innovative piano sonatas of the 19th century: a continuous whole in which all four movements are amalgamated. The recital is completed by the third of Liszt's Three Caprices-Valses, the Valse de concert sur deux motifs de Lucia et Parisina de Donizetti, which is based on themes from Donizetti's operas Parisina and Lucia di Lammermoor, and is striking for its wealth of ideas and for Liszt's deft combination of waltz themes from the two operas.
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