Liszt - Piano Concertos Nos. 1 & 2

DG: 4235712

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Liszt - Piano Concertos Nos. 1 & 2

Awards:

Penguin Guide

Rosette Winner

Building a Library

First Choice - April 2013

Label:

DG

Catalogue No:

4235712

Discs:

1

Barcode:

0028942357129

Medium:

CD
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Liszt - Piano Concertos Nos. 1 & 2


Liszt:

Piano Concerto No. 1 in E flat major, S124

Piano Concerto No. 2 in A major, S125

Totentanz, S126 for piano & orchestra


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Franz Liszt: Piano Concerto No. 1 in E flat, S124

play1. Allegro Maestoso

play2. Quasi Adagio; 3. Allegretto Vivace

play4. Allegro Marziale Animato

Franz Liszt: Piano Concerto No. 2 in A, S125

play1. Adagio Sostenuto Assai, Allegro Agitato Assai

play2. Allegro Moderato, Allegro Deciso

play3. Marziale un poco meno Allegro

play4. Allegro Animato, Stretto

Franz Liszt: Totentanz (Danse macabre)

playTotentanz

Gramophone Classical Music Guide

2010

“This is playing in the grand manner. From the start of First Concerto you're aware of a consciously leonine approach. Zimerman even deliberately takes risks in a few technically perilous places where some of his colleagues, at least in the studio, play safe; and indeed his octaves in the opening cadenza are an example.
The result sounds spontaneous and, yes, even brave. Ozawa and the orchestra are behind the soloist in all this. Not only do lyrical sections sing with subtlety, the big passages also are shapely. There's plenty of drive in this Concerto.
In the Second Concerto Zimerman adopts a different approach; he evidently considers it a more poetic piece and the playing style, strong though it is, is to match. Finely though he handles the gentler music, there are odd sniffs and hums in the molto espressivo passage following the D flat major cello solo, and also in the last of the work's quiet sections. In the gorgeously grisly Totentanz, both the music and the playing should make your hair stand on end. The sound has a depth that suits the music and the piano is especially impressive.
Zimerman's freshness (he reminds us that this is a young man's music), and the coupling, makes this disc a most desirable one.”

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