Liszt Complete Music for Solo Piano 30: Liszt at the Opera 3

Another valuable instalment in Howard's vast trek through Liszt's piano music — Classic CD More…

Catalogue No: CDA66861-2
Label: Hyperion
Series: Liszt Complete Solo Piano Music
Length: 2 hours 33 minutes

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Liszt: Overture zu Oberon, S574

Work length8:38

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Leslie Howard (piano)

Liszt: Fantasy on Themes from Mozart's Marriage of Figaro and Don Giovanni, S697

Work length21:39

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Liszt: Ernani '[Deuxième] Paraphrase de Concert', S432

Work length8:39

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Liszt: Miserere du Trovatore, S433

Work length8:53

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Liszt: Concert Paraphrase on Rigoletto, S.434 after Verdi's opera

Work length7:50

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Liszt: Réminiscences de Simone Boccanegra, S.438

Work length11:07

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Liszt: Valse de concert sur deux motifs de Lucia et Parisina (Donizetti)

Work length9:08

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Liszt: Grande fantaisie sur des themes de Les Huguenots by Meyerbeer,S412 / R211, Reminiscences des Huguenots

Work length16:33

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I. Cavatine, S412a

Track length6:12

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II. Valse infernale, S413

Track length10:21

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Liszt: Les Adieux, rêverie sur un motif de l'opéra Romeo et Juliette, S. 409

Work length11:29

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Liszt: Schwanengesang und Marsch aus Hunyadi László, S405

Work length11:13

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Liszt: Elsa’s Bridal Procession (from Lohengrin), S445, No.2

Work length8:58

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Liszt: Aus Richard Wagners Lohengrin, S446

Work length20:06

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Leslie Howard (piano)

I. Festspiel und Brautlied

Track length11:09

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II. Elsas Traum

Track length5:10

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III. Lohengrins Verweis an Elsa

Track length3:47

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Liszt: Phantasiestück über Motive aus Rienzi (Wagner), S. 439

Work length8:47

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Leslie Howard (piano)

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Another valuable instalment in Howard's vast trek through Liszt's piano music

2010

Liszt's operatic outings range from literal transcriptions, such as the opening Oberon Overture, to the most free fantasias, like that on motives from Rienzi at the end of the disc. The sequence is artfully planned to provide the maximum contrast between Liszt as lion and dove, with four of the 16 items earmarked as 'first recordings'. Of these, the Gounod Roméo et Juliette Rêverie is a tender, nocturne-like idyll that not for a second outstays its welcome. Liszt scholars may nevertheless be still more grateful for Howard's rescue of the other three, and first and foremost the nearly 22-minute long Fantasia on themes from Le nozze di Figaro and Don Giovanni. Though selfindulgently protracted, its thematic interweavings en route still take your breath away. With Verdi and Wagner we're on more familiar ground, where it goes without saying that Howard has formidable CD rivals. But throughout the disc there's a spaciousness in his characterisation that far more often than not compensates for momentary technical strain or loss of finesse. His tonal range is certainly wide, ranging from the deep, dark, brooding intensity he finds for the Ernani and Il trovatore excerpts to his translucent delicacy in the upper reaches of Gounod's Rêverie. Apart from a slightly metallic touch above a certain dynamic level in the treble, the recorded sound quality can best be described in a nutshell as ripe.

Liszt Complete Music for Solo Piano 30: Liszt at the Opera 3

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