Liszt: Complete Piano Music, Vol. 63: Weihnachtsbaum
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FRANZ LISZT
Liszt: Complete Piano Music, Vol. 63: Weihnachtsbaum
Wojciech Waleczek (piano)
[ Naxos / CD ]
Release Date: Friday 27 September 2024
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The piano pieces Franz Liszt composed in his final decade are both secular and sacred with a startling originality that is far removed from the virtuoso character of his earlier works. Weihnachtsbaum is an all-embracing impression of Christmas that includes traditional carols alongside childhood and adult views of the season. The dark chromaticism of Die Trauergondel II is a tribute to Wagner, contrasting with the brighter range and yearning lyrical lines of the Wiegenlied. Many of these works remained unpublished in Liszt's lifetime, and are genuine rarities even today.
Tracks:
Weihnachtsbaum, S186/R71 (1876)
(first version, MS-181, Bibliothèque
nationale de France, Paris)
1 I. Psallite! Altes Weihnachtslied
2 II. O heilige Nacht!
3 III. Die Hirten an der Krippe
'In dulci jubilo'
4 IV. Adeste fideles, gleichsam als
Marsch der heiligen drei Könige
5 V. Scherzoso
6 VI. Réveille-matin (Wecker)
7 VII. Schlummerlied
8 VIII. Alt-provenzalische Noël
9 IX. [Abendglocken]
10 X. [Ehemals]
11 XI. Ungarisch
12 XII. Polnisch
13 Die Trauergondel II (La lugubre gondola II), S200/2/R81/2 'Élégie No. 3' (1882)
14 Die Trauergondel II (La lugubre gondola II), S200/2/R81/2 'Élégie No. 3'(1882) (1883 version)
15 Wiegenlied (Chant du berceau), S198/R58 (1881)
16 Élégie No. 1, S196/R76 'Schlummerlied im Grabe' (1874)
17 Petőfi szellemének (Dem Andenken Petőfis), S195/R111 (1877)
(revised version)
18 National Hymne, S197b 'Kaiser Wilhelm!'(1876)
19 Historische ungarische Bildnisse, S205a/R112: No. 7. Mosonyi Mihály (1885)
20 Resignazione (Ergebung), S187a (1877) (second version)
21 Air cosaque, S249c (c. 1871)
