Liszt: Piano Concerto No. 2 / Hungarian Fantasy CD Track Listing
Liszt
Piano Concerto No. 2 / Hungarian Fantasy
Les Fleurs, 1990 Delta Music\nJeno Jando on Piano\nBudapest Symphony Orchestra\nAndras Ligeti, conductor\n\nIn his shooting-star career, Franz Liszt had already won over audiences all over Europe as\na young man before taking the technique of piano playing to unsurpassable heights in the\nspace of a mere two decades. Weary of his profession as travelling ``clown'' (Liszt) and\nsick of the ``incessant repetition of the same things being a revolting necessity of the life as a\nvirtuoso'' led him in 1848 to choose to seek refuge for his art in the quiet town of Weimar.\nAs a court music director, he was in charge of 39 musicians, and put on performances in the\ntown of operas by Wagner and Berlioz, while devoting much of his time to composing.\nNot only his twelve great symphonic poems benefitted from his orchestral experience. His\nPiano Concerto in A major with a single movment, which took twenty six years between\nthe first sketch and the final revision, also contains a remarkably rich range of tonal\ncolour, and above all those elements of his tonal language which show that he was one of\nthe most astute apologists of the concept of variation. In his art, he advocated the theory\nthat the form of a work had to be constantly recreated. Accordingly, in his Concerto in A\nmajor, he also developed the individual movements by constantly transforming the\noriginal motif. In a remarkable synthesis of concerto, fantasy, rhapsody and impovisation\nand without any recourse to popular effects, he transformed the main elegiac theme\nof the start to such an extent that it covers a wide range of expressive areas between the\npoles of lyrical sentimentality and the pompous gestures of a march. - Born on the\nAustro-Hungarian border of German descent, Liszt did not speak any Hungarian.\nNonetheless, he expressed his enthusiasm for the roaming life of the Hungarian gypsies in\nhis ``Fantasy on Hungarian Folk Tunes'', in which he readapted themes which he had\nmade use of in his 4th Hungarian Rhapsody. The strict form of the polonaise is\ndetermined by its basic heroic tenor, and in the ``Freeshooter'' fantasy, the great musician\ncan be seen in his taking individual striking motifs from the opera and symbolising with\nthem the story of good over evil in a fascinating panorama. U.K.
This classical cd contains 9 tracks and runs 60min 26sec.
Freedb: 630e2809
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: Music
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: music songs tracks classical
- Liszt - Piano Concerto No. 2 - Adagio sostenuto assai (05:03)
Tracks 1 - 6\nPiano Concerto No. 2 in A Major - Liszt - Piano Concerto No. 2 - Allegro agitato assai (02:01)
- Liszt - Piano Concerto No. 2 - Allegro moderato (05:06)
- Liszt - Piano Concerto No. 2 - Allegro deciso (02:57)
- Liszt - Piano Concerto No. 2 - Marziale, un poco meno allegro (03:52)
- Liszt - Piano Concerto No. 2 - Allegro animato (01:53)
- Liszt - Fantasy on Hungarian folk-tunes (15:25)
- Liszt - Polonaise brillante (after Weber) (10:33)
Jeno Jando, piano\nBudapest Symphony Orchestra, Andras Ligeti, conductor - Liszt - Fantasy on Weber's "Freischutz" (13:31)
Andras Pistorius, piano
