Liszt - Enesco - Members of the NBC Symphony Orchestra Conducted By Leopold Stokowski Tchaikovsky, Liszt Horacio Gutierrez, London Symphony Orchestra, André Previnįranz Liszt Lazar Berman, Wiener Symphoniker, Carlo Maria Giulini Liszt Cziffra, Orchestre de Paris, Gyorgy Cziffra, Jr. Liszt, Franck André Watts, Erich Leinsdorf, London Symphony Orchestra Liszt: Totentanz For Piano And Orchestra / Franck: Symphonic Variations For Piano And Orchestra

Liszt, Bruckner The Choir of St John’s College, Cambridge, George Guest Liszt: Missa Choralis / Bruckner: Five Motets Liszt Alfred Brendel, London Philharmonic Orchestra, Bernard Haitink Liszt: Sonate h-Moll / Schumann: Sonate g-Moll Sonata in B minor / Bénédiction de Dieu dans la solitude / Waldesrauschen / Gnomenreigen Liszt Gewandhausorchester Leipzig, Václav Neumann, Siegfried Stöckigt 1Ĭhopin, Liszt London Symphony Orchestra, Claudio Abbado, Martha Argerich Ludwig van Beethoven / Franz Liszt Glenn GouldĬhopin: Piano Concerto no. Glenn Gould Plays Beethoven's 5th Symphony in C minor, op. Sonata in B minor / La Campanella / Valse oubliée / Sonetto 123 del Petrarca / Feux follets / Harmonies du soirĬhopin, Liszt, Debussy, Papandopulo Pavica Gvozdić Sonata in B Minor / Dante Sonata / Bagatelle Without Tonality / Hungarian Rhapsody No 11 Liszt Leonard Pennario, London Symphony Orchestra, René Leibowitz Rhapsodies: Liszt, Enescu, Wagner, Smetana 4 in E minor / Invitation to the Danceįranz Liszt, Carl Maria von Weber Leon FleisherĬhopin, Brahms, Liszt, Maurice Ravel, Prokofiev Martha Argerich Liszt: Sonata in B minor / Weber: Sonata no. Peter Lang - Concertos pour piano n☁ - Orchestre, Rhapsodie hongroise - Funerailles - TassoĪline Van Barentzen, Chopin / Liszt / Villa-LobosĪ Faust Symphony / Symphonic Poem: Orpheus Over time, however, Liszt’s masterwork found its audience, and today it is an absolute favourite of many pianists, music theorists, and classical music lovers across the globe.Hungarian Fantasy - Orchestral Favourites Its technical difficulty also meant that it struggled to become a core part of the repertoire for some time, as even the most talented pianists of the time were wary of taking it on. Brahms, who had a long and tumultuous history with Liszt, is even said to have fallen asleep at its premiere, and one critic said that “anyone who has heard it and finds it beautiful is beyond help.” Unusually for a sonata, its movements are played back to back without pause, and at the time received a highly divisive response. Dedicated to Robert Schumann, many have attempted to ascribe to it a meaning beyond the music, from yet another Faustian depiction to the story of the Garden of Eden, and even the suggestion that it could musical autobiography. Liszt achieved true perfection in 1853, when he completed his Piano Sonata in B minor. Liszt - La Campanella Played on an LED Piano This duo of pieces reveal an affection and sensitivity in Liszt for the Bible and its stories, as he uses the piano as a storytelling device to mimic the chirping of birds in the first piece and the aquatic rippling of the Mediterranean Sea in the second. Yet he wrote a large number of sacred choral works, and for eight years in the 1860s he took up residence in the Vatican, later being known as Abbé Liszt. His relationship with the church ebbed and flowed over the course of his life, as he generated mistrust within sacred society with his flamboyant womanising lifestyle and obsessions with the macabre in his compositions.

Based on miniature stories of two Catholic saints, St Francis of Assisi and St Francis of Paola, these Deux légendes provide a delicate insight into Liszt’s otherwise private religious and spiritual beliefs.

In 1863, Liszt wrote a pair of pieces for solo piano which are beyond compare in the remainder of his output. Faust, in turn, whisks away one of the village maidens, turning and twirling into the forest beyond. The joyous festivities take a turn when the demon commandeers a violin and ekes out an ‘indescribably seductive’ melody. Subtitled ‘The Dance in the Village Inn’, it follows a part of Nikolaus Lenau’s Faust story, in which Mephistopheles and Faust join a village wedding party. Written in the years between 18, the first waltz is the most famous. Liszt wrote four Mephisto Waltzes, named for one of the most renowned demons in German folk literature (also known as Mephistopheles). Here are the 15 greatest pieces he ever wrote. Over a six-decade career, he left behind a colossal amount of music – mostly piano, but also orchestral and vocal. Not least because of his swarming fanbase and 6’1” height, Liszt loomed large over the German music scene as an innovative and experimental performer and composer. Read more: Franz Liszt: discover the great Romantic composer’s life

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