Liszt: Nature Inspired Piano Music

A beautiful selection of nature inspired piano works by a renowned virtuoso pianist, Franz Liszt

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The first volume of the Années de pelèrinage, on which Liszt worked between 1848 and 1854, is among the first of the mature works of his Weimar years. It is based on material written more than ten years previously which originated in the period he spent in Switzerland at the beginning of his relationship with Marie d’Agoult, when the couple had decamped from Paris to Geneva to escape the scandal generated by their unmarried co-habitation. These were published in 1842 in a three-volume collection under the title Album d’un voyageur (S156). Liszt retained only seven of the original nineteen works, mainly those from the first volume - Impressions et poesies- and most underwent extensive revision. La Chapelle de Guillaume Tell is more or less a new work, retaining only the principal melody of the original although Au Lac de Wallenstadt is left virtually untouched.

The Transcendental Etudes are the pre-eminent works to embody the contradictions and contrasts at the heart of the man and his music: ‘transcendent’ both in terms of the demands they make upon the performer and yet, at points, in their spiritual aspirations.

The two Légendes are based on the miracles of two of the composer’s namesake Saints, St. Francis of Assisi, who allegedly preached a sermon to an attentive flock of birds, and St. Francisof Paola who, legend has it, crossed the Strait of Messina fashioning a vessel from his cloak and staff after a ferryman refused him passage.

The harmonic language of late Scriabin, the building of chords in intervals of a fourth (instead of the traditional thirds) finds a curious predecessor in “Late Liszt”, whose Nuages gris is using the fourth (or the augmented fourth, the tritonus) as the basis of the melodic and harmonic discourse.

Tracklist:
0:00:00 Années de pèlerinage book III, S. 163: IV. Les jeux d'eaux à la Villa D'Este (Klára Würtz)
0:07:40 2 Concert études, S. 145: I. Waldesrauschen (Klára Würtz)

Années de pèlerinage Book I, S. 160 (Enrico Pace):
0:11:45 I. Chapelle de Guillaume Tell
0:17:15 II. Au lac de Wallenstadt
0:20:24 III. Pastorale
0:22:05 IV. Au bord d'une source
0:26:03 V. Orage
0:30:10 VI. Vallée d'Obermann
0:44:01 VII. Eglogue
0:47:39 VIII. Le mal du pays
0:53:36 IX. Les cloches de Genève

Études d'exécution transcendante, S. 139 (Andrey Gugnin):
0:59:36 III. Paysage, poco adagio in F Major
1:04:31 V. Feux follets, allegretto in B-Flat Major
1:08:14 XI. Harmonies du soir, andantino in D-Flat Major
1:18:25 XII. Chasse-neige, andante con moto in B-Flat Minor

2 Légendes, S. 175 (Leonardo Pierdomenico):
1:23:35 I. St. François d'Assise. La prédication aux oiseaux
1:33:28 II. St. François de Paul marchant sur les flots

1:42:24 Nuages gris, S. 199 (Philipp Kopachevsky)
1:45:21 Symphony No. 6 in F Major, Op. 68 'Pastorale' from S. 464: II. Andante molto moto (Michele Campanella)
2:03:57 2 Concert études, S. 145: II. Gnomenreigen (Klára Würtz)

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