Nikolai Demidenko plays Liszt

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Nikolai Demidenko plays Liszt

Awards:

Building a Library

Budget Choice - July 2005

Label:

Helios

Catalogue No:

CDH55184

Discs:

1

Release date:

31st May 2004

Barcode:

0034571151847

Medium:

CD
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Nikolai Demidenko plays Liszt


Liszt:

Piano Sonata in B minor, S178

Legendes (2) for piano, S. 175

Scherzo and March, S. 177


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playPiano Sonata In B Minor, S 178 - 01. Lento Assai

playPiano Sonata In B Minor, S 178 - 02. Allegro Energico

playPiano Sonata In B Minor, S 178 - 03. Grandioso

playPiano Sonata In B Minor, S 178 - 04. Cantando Espressivo

playPiano Sonata In B Minor, S 178 - 05. Pesante; Recitativo

playPiano Sonata In B Minor, S 178 - 06. Andante Sostenuto

playPiano Sonata In B Minor, S 178 - 07. Quasi Adagio

playPi:ano Sonata In B Minor, S 178 - 08. Allegro Energico

playPiano Sonata In B Minor, S 178 - 09. Allegro Energico

playPiano Sonata In B Minor, S 178 - 10. Più Mosso

playPiano Sonata In B Minor, S 178 - 11. Cantando Espressivo

playPiano Sonata In B Minor, S 178 - 12. Stretta Quasi Presto; Presto

playPiano Sonata In B Minor, S 178 - 13. Prestissimo

playPiano Sonata In B Minor, S 178 - 14. Andante Sostenuto

playPiano Sonata In B Minor, S 178 - 15. Allegro Moderato

playPiano Sonata In B Minor, S 178 - 16. Lento Assai

playLégende 'St François D'Assise', S 175/1 - 1. Allegretto

playLégende 'St François D'Assise', S 175/1 - 2. Recitativo

playLégende 'St François D'Assise', S 175/1 - 3. Solennemente

playLégende 'St François D'Assise', S 175/1 - 4. Dolcissimo

playLégende 'St François D'Assise', S 175/1 - 5. Dolce

playLégende 'St François De Paule', S 175/2 - 1. Andante Maestoso

playLégende 'St François De Paule', S 175/2 - 2. Allegro Maestoso & Animato

playLégende 'St François De Paule', S 175/2 - 3. Lento

playScherzo & Marsch, S 177 - 1. Allegro Vivace, Spiritoso

playScherzo & Marsch, S 177 - 2. Allegro Moderato, Marziale

playScherzo & Marsch, S 177 - 3. Allegro Vivace, Spiritoso

playScherzo & Marsch, S 177 - 4. Stretta

playScherzo & Marsch, S 177 - 5. Molto Più Animato, Quasi Presto

Gramophone Classical Music Guide

2010

“Even in an impossibly competitive field Demidenko's Liszt Sonata stands out among the most imperious and articulate. His opening is precisely judged and once the Sonata is under its inflammatory way his virtuosity is of a kind to which few other pianists could pretend. The combination of punishing weight and a skittering, light-fingered agility makes for a compulsive vividness yet his economy in the first cantando espressivo, sung without a trace of luxuriance or indulgence, is no less typical. There are admittedly times when he holds affection at arm's length, but just as you're wondering why he commences the central Andante so loudly he at once withdraws into a wholly apposite remoteness or reticence. The final climax, too, is snapped off not only with a stunning sense of Lisztian drama but also with an even truer sense and understanding of Liszt's score and instructions.
Demidenko's couplings are no less autocratic, with a capacity to make seemingly arbitrary ideas sound unarguable. His Légendes are far from benign, yet his tautness and graphic sense of their poetic power carry their own authority. He's in his element in the Scherzo and March's diablerie, music which, coming after the two Légendes, affects one like an upside-down crucifix, or some dark necromancy. The recording is outstanding.”

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