Liszt - Complete Organ Music | Brilliant Classics 95035

Liszt - Complete Organ Music

Label: Brilliant Classics

Cat No: 95035

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 5

Genre: Instrumental

Release Date: 4th December 2020

Contents

Works

Liszt, Franz

Adagio from Sonata no.4 for violin and harpsichord (J S Bach)
Agnus Dei from Messa di Requiem (Verdi), S675d
Am Grabe Richard Wagners, S267
Andante, S660 no.2 (JS Bach)
Andante religioso, S261a
Ave Maria I (Gebet), S667b
Ave Maria d'Arcadelt, S659
Ave maris stella, S669/2
Ave verum corpus de Mozart, S674d
Chor der jungeren Pilger (Der Gnade Heil), S676 (Wagner)
Consolations (4), S672d
» no.2 in D flat major
» no.3 in E major
Einleitung, Fuge und Magnificat aus der Symphonie zu Dantes Divina commedia, S672b
Einleitung und Fuge, S660 no.1 (JS Bach)
Einleitung zur Legende von der heiligen Elisabeth, S663a
Evocation a la Chapelle Sixtine, S658
Fantasia and Fugue on 'Ad nos, ad Salutarem undam' by Meyerbeer, S259
Gebet, S265
Hosannah, S677
In domum Domini ibimus, S671
Introitus, S268 no.1
Kirchliche Fest-Ouverture, S675 (Otto Nicolai)
Missa pro organo, S264
Nun danket alle Gott, S674c
Offertorium from the Hungarian Coronation Mass, S667
Ora pro nobis, S262
Orpheus for organ, S672a
Pio IX (Der Papsthymnus), S261
Prelude and Fugue on the name B-A-C-H, S260
Preludes (2) from op.28 (Chopin), S662
Regina coeli laetare, S663 (Lasso)
Requiem for organ, S266
Resignazione, S263
Rosario, S670
Salve Regina, S669/1
San Francecsco, S665
Trauer Ode (Die Todten), S268 no.2
Tu es Petrus, S664 (from the oratorio Christus)
Ungarns Gott, S674
Variations on a theme from 'Weinen, Klagen, Sorgen, Zagen' (JS Bach) for organ, S673
Via Crucis, S669b
Weihnachtsbaum, S186
Weimars Volkslied, S672
Zur Trauung (Sposalizio), S671a

Artists

Adriano Falcioni (organ)

Works

Liszt, Franz

Adagio from Sonata no.4 for violin and harpsichord (J S Bach)
Agnus Dei from Messa di Requiem (Verdi), S675d
Am Grabe Richard Wagners, S267
Andante, S660 no.2 (JS Bach)
Andante religioso, S261a
Ave Maria I (Gebet), S667b
Ave Maria d'Arcadelt, S659
Ave maris stella, S669/2
Ave verum corpus de Mozart, S674d
Chor der jungeren Pilger (Der Gnade Heil), S676 (Wagner)
Consolations (4), S672d
» no.2 in D flat major
» no.3 in E major
Einleitung, Fuge und Magnificat aus der Symphonie zu Dantes Divina commedia, S672b
Einleitung und Fuge, S660 no.1 (JS Bach)
Einleitung zur Legende von der heiligen Elisabeth, S663a
Evocation a la Chapelle Sixtine, S658
Fantasia and Fugue on 'Ad nos, ad Salutarem undam' by Meyerbeer, S259
Gebet, S265
Hosannah, S677
In domum Domini ibimus, S671
Introitus, S268 no.1
Kirchliche Fest-Ouverture, S675 (Otto Nicolai)
Missa pro organo, S264
Nun danket alle Gott, S674c
Offertorium from the Hungarian Coronation Mass, S667
Ora pro nobis, S262
Orpheus for organ, S672a
Pio IX (Der Papsthymnus), S261
Prelude and Fugue on the name B-A-C-H, S260
Preludes (2) from op.28 (Chopin), S662
Regina coeli laetare, S663 (Lasso)
Requiem for organ, S266
Resignazione, S263
Rosario, S670
Salve Regina, S669/1
San Francecsco, S665
Trauer Ode (Die Todten), S268 no.2
Tu es Petrus, S664 (from the oratorio Christus)
Ungarns Gott, S674
Variations on a theme from 'Weinen, Klagen, Sorgen, Zagen' (JS Bach) for organ, S673
Via Crucis, S669b
Weihnachtsbaum, S186
Weimars Volkslied, S672
Zur Trauung (Sposalizio), S671a

Artists

Adriano Falcioni (organ)

About

The most complete set ever recorded of Liszt’s output for the organ: new recordings, made on the superb, recently restored instrument of Perugia Cathedral by a musician with a catalogue of critically acclaimed recordings on Brilliant Classics.

Liszt the piano virtuoso, the inventor of the orchestral symphonic poem, the apostle of ‘the music of the future’, is a familiar figure. Liszt the organ enthusiast is not so well known. His fondness for the instrument is shown by frequent references in his correspondence, by his transcriptions for it, and, most of all, by a handful of original masterpieces.

Liszt's first and largest work for the organ was the Fantasy and Fugue on Ad nos, ad salutarem undam, based on the chorale sung in the first act of Meyerbeer’s opera Le Prophète. ‘A kind of curiosity’, he wrote to his publisher, but then later to a friend accounted for it as ‘one of my least bad productions’. As well he might, for it is highly dramatic, full of fire and energy: the fugue is almost a symphonic poem in its own right, whose cumulative impact is succeeded only in his organ writing by the Prelude and Fugue on B-A-C-H.

Liszt’s veneration for Bach also expressed itself in his other major original masterpiece for the instrument, the set of variations on the lamenting ‘Weinen, Klagen, Sorgen, Zagen’ cantata melody. His profound faith and fascination with the tonal rainbow afforded by the organ also inspired a great deal of lesser-known music, however, both original and transcribed. Allegri’s Miserere receives a dramatic transcription, while the pellucid simplicity of Mozart’s Ave verum is treated respectfully, like the Agnus Dei from Verdi’s Requiem. Indeed nearly all of Liszt’s output for the organ shares a devotional quality quite foreign to its common use among 19thcentury composers as a vehicle for volume and virtuosity.

Adriano Falcioni’s recordings for Brilliant encompass many of the Romantic era’s most celebrated organ composers. Praise in Fanfare for his previous albums: ‘Falcioni clearly has the right feel for this repertoire, in tempos and registrations and ability to bind together phrases and sections into coherent larger wholes’ (Reger, 95075). ‘A top contender… Everything is idiomatically played by Adriano Falcioni on a fine instrument… Strongly recommended’ (Brahms, 94460). Further praise for the Reger album, recorded on the same organ as the present set of Liszt, came from the Italian Organ Compendium: ‘Highly recommended to our readers, who will find an excellent repertoire, a very good interpreter and an instrument of great interest.’

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