Schubert-Liszt - Der Wanderer: Wanderer Fantasy, Song Transcriptions
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Label: Piano Classics
Cat No: PCL10271
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 1
Genre: Instrumental
Release Date: 19th January 2024
Contents
Works
Fantasie in C major, S565a 'Wanderer Fantasy' (after Schubert)Lieder (12) von Franz Schubert, S558
Artists
Giovanni Doria Miglietta (piano)Works
Fantasie in C major, S565a 'Wanderer Fantasy' (after Schubert)Lieder (12) von Franz Schubert, S558
Artists
Giovanni Doria Miglietta (piano)About
Within eight years, Liszt had produced 56 such transcriptions from the treasury of Schubert’s Lieder, which are models of their kind: faithful, ingenious and gratifying to play. Giovanni Doria-Miglietta includes eight of them in this beautifully curated tribute from one genius to another: Du bist die Ruh; Das Wandern; Aufenthalt; Wohin; Gretchen am Spinnrade; Der Doppelgänger; Ständchen, and Der Wanderer.
The last of these Lieder had supplied Schubert with the melodic idea for a fantasy of his own which stands as his most brilliantly virtuosic work for the piano. Dating from 1822, the Wanderer Fantasy makes hardly less prodigious demands on the performer than the Hammerklavier Sonata of Beethoven from five years earlier, and in places is more awkwardly written. As the great pianist of his own age, Liszt rewrote the Fantasy in an act of homage, firstly as a concerto, then a solo piece, and this lesser-known version is recorded here by Giovanni Doria Miglietta.
As the pianist remarks in his own analytical essay for the album, Liszt did not seek to elaborate or decorate Schubert’s writing, the way his successors such as Alkan and Godowsky did in their tributes to Chopin. Rather, Liszt tends to replace sequences in arpeggios with passages of repeated chords or alternating octaves, and he often amuses himself by inserting additional voices (often in the left hand) enriching the polyphonic fabric. Many of these passages are pianistically more effective and in some cases technically more manageable.
Finally, Doria-Miglietta includes Liszt’s more complex rewritings of two Impromptus. In D899 no.2 he does indeed make the harmony more complex and the effect more brilliant, whereas he leaves the divine simplicity of no.3 almost untouched except for changing the key from G flat to G major, perhaps to make it easier to play for the amateur pianist.
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