Liszt - Winterreise (after Schubert), Totentanz, Gretchen
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Label: Piano Classics
Cat No: PCL10251
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 1
Genre: Instrumental
Release Date: 23rd June 2023
Contents
Works
Gretchen aus Faust-Symphonie, S513Lieder (12) von Franz Schubert (aus Winterreise), S561
Totentanz, S525
Artists
Leonardo Pierdomenico (piano)Works
Gretchen aus Faust-Symphonie, S513Lieder (12) von Franz Schubert (aus Winterreise), S561
Totentanz, S525
Artists
Leonardo Pierdomenico (piano)About
The young Italian pianist has already established himself as a Lisztian of renown and distinction through the Piano Classics album (PCL10151) including the Ballades, Légendes and Csárdás macabre. The album won widespread critical admiration: ‘Would that half the seasoned Lisztians I know had Pierdomenico’s keen ear for stylistic differentiation within this half-century of repertory. His highly developed technique and cultivated sound, both adaptable to a variety of affects, are wedded to those twin essentials for artistic Liszt-playing: imagination combined with thoroughgoing, scrupulous musicality’ (Gramophone, September 2018).
Leonardo Pierdomenico now brings these Lisztian virtues to the songs from Winterreise which Liszt selected and arranged according to his own ordering, beginning like the original with ‘Gute Nacht’ but ending with the grim tavern scene of ‘Im Dorfe’. Along the journey, Liszt exercises all his powers of pianistic invention not merely to incorporate the song line within the piano part but to enrich Schubert’s music with his own sympathetic interpretation. In ‘Der Lindenbaum’, Liszt deploys all manner of flourishes to conjure up the tree’s rustling leaves. In a surprising twist, he follows it with the cycle’s otherwordly song evoking ‘Der Leiermann’, the hurdy-gurdy man.
The recital’s still central point of reflection is supplied by Liszt’s transcription of Gretchen from his Faust Symphony: a loving but complex portrait of the object of Faust’s affections, a cantabile meditation magnificently sustained over almost 20 minutes. By contrast, Totentanz in its solo-piano version is a feat of pianistic imagination, based on the Dies irae plainchant, to test the most technically assured performers.
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