Liszt - Unrivalled Vol.2: Late Piano Works
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Label: Odradek Records
Cat No: ODRCD455
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 1
Genre: Instrumental
Release Date: 26th April 2024
Contents
Works
Bagatelle sans tonalite, S216aCsardas macabre, S224
Hungarian Rhapsodies (19), S244
In festo transfigurationis Domini nostri Jesu Christi, S188
Mephisto Polka, S217
Mephisto Waltz no.3, S216
Polonaise from Eugene Onegin (Tchaikovsky), S429
Sarabande and Chaconne from Almira (Handel), S181
Toccata, S197a
Trauervorspiel und Trauermarsch, S206
Artists
Michael Kaykov (piano)Works
Bagatelle sans tonalite, S216aCsardas macabre, S224
Hungarian Rhapsodies (19), S244
In festo transfigurationis Domini nostri Jesu Christi, S188
Mephisto Polka, S217
Mephisto Waltz no.3, S216
Polonaise from Eugene Onegin (Tchaikovsky), S429
Sarabande and Chaconne from Almira (Handel), S181
Toccata, S197a
Trauervorspiel und Trauermarsch, S206
Artists
Michael Kaykov (piano)About
Underestimated at the time, Liszt's late piano works are increasingly recognised as masterpieces of innovation, pushing the boundaries of tonality and style with a radical daring that paved the way for modernism. Each work on this album is an illustration of these remarkable developments. Highlights include the Csárdás macabre which features empty sequences of fifths, almost minimalist rhythmic repetitions and chromatic undulations of pared-back melodic lines. The Impromptu, S191, lives up to the spontaneity of its name, while the last four of the 19 Hungarian Rhapsodies were composed some 30 years after the first 15 and have a completely different character, epitomising Liszt's ascetic late style.
The Funeral Prelude and Funeral March are pervaded with chromaticism, dissonant harmonies, augmented intervals and tonal ambiguity, while brevity and simplicity characterise the Mephisto Polka. The Bagatelle sans tonalité, with its extreme chromaticism and dissolution of functional harmony, heralds a new musical epoch beyond the Romantic era with which Liszt is most often associated. Michael Kaykov approaches this magnificent repertoire with sensitivity, nuance and breathtaking skill.
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