Description
Franz Liszt:Aux cyprès de la Villa d'Este (Années de pèlerinage III, S. 163 No. 2)Hungarian Rhapsody, S244 No. 17 in D minorPiano Sonata in B minor, S178Transcendental Study, S139 No. 1 'Preludio'Transcendental Study, S139 No. 10 'Appassionata'Transcendental Study, S139 No. 11 'Harmonies du soir'Transcendental Study, S139 No. 2 in A minorTranscendental Study, S139 No. 3 'Paysage'Transcendental Study, S139 No. 5 'Feux Follets'Transcendental Study, S139 No. 7 'Eroica'Transcendental Study, S139 No. 8 'Wilde Jagd'Valse oubliée No. 3, S.215/3
Artists
Sviatoslav Richter (Piano)
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Richter’s fabulous Liszt, virtuoso, seductive, risky …even Arrau, Cziffra or Brendel at their zenith, would have balked at such a recital. Amongst the composers chosen by Richter during his Soviet and later international career, he returned always to Prokofiev, Tchaikovsky, Beethoven, Schubert, Haydn, Mozart, Schumann. Then came Liszt, represented by the significant or unusual compositions that the pianist selected and included in his programmes. With his interpretations of these works Horowitz, Arrau and Gilels, his childhood friend, are found challenged musically. Richter’s Liszt legacy is revealed as fabulous, heard here in its original purity. |
