Complete Piano Music: Les Preludes. Concert etudes & Episodes from Lenau's Faust
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Complete Piano Music: Les Preludes. Concert etudes & Episodes from Lenau's Faust
Leslie Howard (piano)
[ Hyperion Complete Liszt Edition Vol 38 / CD ]
Release Date: Tuesday 1 February 2011
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'A rewarding collection, very well played and recorded' (The Penguin Guide to Compact Discs)
'Prueba evidente del absoluto dominio y comprensión musical que posee el intérprete de la obra del compositor hungaro' (CD Compact, Spain)
Six of Liszt's important contributions to the literature of the pianoforte étude occupy the centre of this programme. They are flanked by two works unfamiliar in their present guise: the solo piano versions of Les Préludes and Der nächtlige Zug (the first of the Episodes from Lenau's Faust).
The Faust legend preoccupied Liszt for much of his life, Goethe's rendering of it inspiring the orchestral masterpiece, the Faust Symphony. Among the works inspired by Lenau's poem we find the Episodes here presented. Der nächtlige Zug is clearly one of his finest works and its neglect in all of its guises is inexplicable; the second of the episodes is an early version of the phenomenally successful First Mephisto Waltz.
Tracks:
LES PRÉLUDES - Poème symphonique (No 3), S511a (1848/c1854/c1865) * [16'31]
TROIS ÉTUDES DE CONCERT - Trois Caprices poétiques, S144 (1848)
No I in A flat major (Il Lamento) [9'26]
No II in F minor (La Leggierezza) [5'33]
[two short cadenzas for No III] * [0'44]
No III in D flat major (Un Sospiro) (with cadenza and revised coda) [5'48]
Ab Irato - Etude de perfectionnement, S143 (second version, 1852) [2'31]
ZWEI KONZERTETÜDEN, S145 (published 1863) [7'55]
Waldesrauschen [4'44]
Gnomenreigen [3'07]
ZWEI EPISODEN AUS LENAUS FAUST [24'30]
Der nächtliche Zug, S513a (1861/73) * [14'18]
Der Tanz in der Dorfschenke - [Erster] Mephisto-Waizer (first version), S514(1859/60) [10'08]
* first recordings
