Liszt at the Opera
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Label: Chandos
Cat No: CHAN10793
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 1
Genre: Instrumental
Release Date: 30th September 2013
Contents
Works
Isolde's Liebestod from Tristan und Isolde (Wagner), S447O du, mein holder Abendstern from 'Tannhauser' (Wagner), S444
Reminiscences de Don Juan (Mozart), S418
Rigoletto Paraphrase, S434
Spinnerlied (Spinning Song) from 'Der fliegende Hollander' (Wagner), S440
Tannhauser Overture, S422 (Wagner trans. Liszt for piano)
Valse de l'opera Faust (Gounod), S407
Prelude from Tristan und Isolde (Wagner)
Artists
Louis Lortie (piano)Works
Isolde's Liebestod from Tristan und Isolde (Wagner), S447O du, mein holder Abendstern from 'Tannhauser' (Wagner), S444
Reminiscences de Don Juan (Mozart), S418
Rigoletto Paraphrase, S434
Spinnerlied (Spinning Song) from 'Der fliegende Hollander' (Wagner), S440
Tannhauser Overture, S422 (Wagner trans. Liszt for piano)
Valse de l'opera Faust (Gounod), S407
Prelude from Tristan und Isolde (Wagner)
Artists
Louis Lortie (piano)About
In this new release, the exclusive Chandos artist and award-winning pianist Louis Lortie continues his exploration of piano works by Franz Liszt. His previous Liszt releases have been critically acclaimed, Gramophone describing his performance of the complete Années de Pèlerinage as ‘spellbinding’. Here Lortie turns his hand to the composer’s opera transcriptions and paraphrases, works that revolutionised composition for the piano with their unheralded technical innovation.
The original works by Liszt based on Mozart’s Don Giovanni, Verdi’s Rigoletto and Gounod’s Faust not only demonstrate the dazzling technical possibilities of the piano but reveal the unique and fascinating musical imagination with which Liszt transformed some of the best-known music in the operatic repertoire.
Completing the disc are several more or less straightforward transcriptions based on operas by Richard Wagner who, despite a rocky start to their relationship, forged a close musical bond with Liszt. Among them is the popular transcription of the ‘Liebestod’ from Tristan und Isolde. Liszt never completed a transcription of its natural musical companion, the Prelude to the opera, so here Louis Lortie has recorded his own arrangement of it.
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