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Lise de la Salle is fully in command of the technical difficulties and much of her playing is exciting — BBC Music Magazine, September 2011, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Release Date: 16th May 2011
Catalogue No: V5267
Label: Naive
Length: 77 minutes

Presto Recording of the Week

24th September 2011
Gramophone Magazine

September 2011

Editor's Choice

Excerpt, Liszt: Années de pèlerinage, 2ème année, Italie (7 pieces), S. 161

Work length16:57

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Lise de la Salle (piano)

Annees de pelerinage, 2nd year, Italy, S161 / R10b: No. 7. Apres une lecture du Dante, fantasia quasi una sonata (After Reading Dante)

Track length16:57

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$5.15

Liszt: Zwei Transcriptionen über Themen aus Mozarts Requiem, S550

Work length5:06

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Lise de la Salle (piano)

Confutatis und Lacrymosa aus dem Requiem K. 626 von Mozart, S550 / R229: Lacrymosa

Track length5:06

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Liszt: Ballade No. 2 in B minor, S171 / R16

Work length15:45

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Lise de la Salle (piano)

Liszt: Widmung S566 after Schumann (Liebeslied)

Work length3:30

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Lise de la Salle (piano)

Excerpt, Liszt: Transcendental Studies, S139 Nos. 1-12

Work length7:32

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Lise de la Salle (piano)

12 Etudes d'execution transcendante, S139 / R2b: No. 4 in D minor, "Mazeppa"

Track length7:32

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Liszt: Nuages gris, S199

Work length3:02

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Lise de la Salle (piano)

Excerpt, Liszt: Schwanengesang - Vierzehn Lieder Von Franz Schubert, S560

Work length5:57

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Lise de la Salle (piano)

Schubert - Schwanengesang, S560 / R245: No. 7. Standchen, "Leise flehen meine Lieder"

Track length5:57

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Excerpt, Liszt: Harmonies poétiques et religieuses (10), S. 173

Work length11:31

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Lise de la Salle (piano)

Harmonies poetiques et religieuses, S173 / R14: VII. Funerailles

Track length11:31

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Liszt: Isolde's Liebestod (after Wagner), S447

Work length8:04

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$2.60

Lise de la Salle (piano)

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Recording of the Week, Franz Liszt

24th October 2011

Chris rounds up some of the many releases issued to commemorate the bicentenary of the Hungarian composer’s birth this week, including a song-recital from Diana Damrau and Helmut Deutsch, the Piano Concertos from Stephen Hough and the Bergen Philharmonic, and selected piano works from Lise de la Salle.

Lise de la Salle’s sixth recording for Naïve comes a year after the release of her highly-praised disc of Chopin. Once again it is dedicated to a composer with an anniversary being celebrated - Franz Liszt, who was born 200 years ago. The CD includes original works such as his Ballade No. 2 and Funérailles, as well as some of Liszt’s numerous arrangements of music by other composers including Mozart, Schubert, Schumann, and Wagner.

Lise de la Salle was born in 1988 and began studying the piano at the age of four. She gave her first concert at nine, and made her concerto debut in a live broadcast on Radio France at the age of 13. Since 2001 she has pursued an international career that has taken her to such venues as the Berlin Philharmonie, the Hollywood Bowl, the Wigmore Hall in London, the Met Museum in New York, the Amsterdam Concertgebouw, and the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées in Paris. At the age of 14, her first recording (V4936) featured the music of Ravel and Rachmaninoff and marked the start of her collaboration with Naïve. In 2004 she released an album of music by Bach and Liszt (V5006) which was ‘CD of the Month’ in Gramophone. This was followed in 2007 by a CD of the First Concertos of Shostakovich, Liszt, and Prokofiev (V5053) with Lawrence Foster and the Gulbenkian Orchestra, which won the same distinction in Gramophone. In 2008 came a double album of Mozart and Prokofiev which was a BBC Music Magazine ‘Choice’, as well as an ‘Editor’s Choice’ in the Gramophone. The year 2010 saw the release of a critically-acclaimed recording of the Piano Concerto No 2 (accompanied by the Dresden Staatskapelle under Fabio Luisi) and the Four Ballades of Chopin (V5215).

De la Salle’s new recording presents a selection of Franz Liszt’s compositions for solo piano that is both eclectic and fairly representative. Large-scale works like the Ballade No 2 in B minor, Funérailles, and Après une lecture du Dante, and shorter pieces such as Nuages gris mix with arrangements of the music of others, including Isolde’s Liebestod by Wagner and Ständchen by Franz Schubert.

Reviews

September 2011

Lise de la Salle is fully in command of the technical difficulties and much of her playing is exciting

August 2011

Ms de la Salle is a Lisztian to the manner born. The turbulent passions expressed in the Ballade, Funerailles and Liebestod are powerfully conveyed while Schubert and Schumann song transcriptions are beautifully phrased

September 2011

de la Salle gives us a Liszt recital of astonishing strength, poetry and, for one so young, musical maturity. Whether in fist-shaking defiance, radiance or baleful resignation, she is superbly responsive to Liszt's rhetoric in the Dante Sonata. Here, as elsewhere, everything is given time to "speak, to weep and sing and sigh" (part of Liszt's own definition of a true virtuoso).

24th October 2011

Lise de la Salle is completely in command of the technical challenges while alive to both the subtleties of phrasing and the raw excitement of the more powerful moments.

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