Complete Piano Music: Soirees Musicales & Soirees Italiennes
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Complete Piano Music: Soirees Musicales & Soirees Italiennes
Leslie Howard (piano)
[ Hyperion Complete Liszt Edition Vol 21 / CD ]
Release Date: Tuesday 1 February 2011
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"There's much to enjoy in the playing itself, especially in simpler contexts when gondolas glide through calm waters, or lovers dream, or shepherds dance. Melody, so important throughout, is nicely sung."
(The Gramophone Classical Music Guide)
Transcriptions and Fantasies on music by Rossini, Mercadante and Donizetti, and original works inspired by Italy.
"The two discs comprising Vol 21 of Howard's enormous cycle remind us of the young Liszt's love affair with Italy, the spotlight now falling primarily-on frolics with Rossini, Mercadante and Donizetti in lighter, lyrical vein. The special interest of the two original sets of pieces included, i.e. the three Sonetti del Petrarca and the four Veneziae Napoli, is that Howard introduces them as first written (c1839 and 1840 respectively) before Liszt's characteristically painstaking later revisions.
There's much to enjoy in the playing itself, especially in simpler contexts when gondolas glide through calm waters, or lovers dream, or shepherds dance. Melody, so important throughout, is nicely sung."
(The Gramophone Classical Music Guide)
"The charm of Donizetti's 'Nuits d'été à Pausilippe' makes one grateful for their rescue by Liszt and by Howard"
(Classic CD)
Tracks:
Soirees Musicales (Rossini-Liszt) S424
Soirees Italiennes - Six Amusements (Mercadante-Liszt), S411
Nuits D'ete A Pausilippe ('soirees Italiennes' Nos. 7-9) (Donizetti-Liszt), S399
Sonetti di Petrarca (3) for piano, S. 158
Venezia E Napoli (First Set), S159 (C1840)
La serenata e L'orgia - Grande fantaisie sur des motifs de Soirées musicales, S422ii
'La serenata' e 'L'orgia' (Rossini), S422 (1835-6) (second edition)
La pastorella dell'Alpi e Li marinari - Deuxième fantaisie sur des motifs des Soirées musicales, S423
'La pastorella dell'Alpi' e 'Li marinari' (Rossini), S423 (1835-6)
