Liszt: Orchestral Pieces [4 CDs]

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Album Summary

Performer

• Jenö Jandó (Piano)

Conductors

• Ahronovitch, Yuri
• Ferencsik, Janos
• Haenchen, Hartmut
• Korodi, Andras
• Nemeth, Gyula

Ensemble

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Composer

• Franz Liszt (1811 - 1886)

Notes & Reviews:

For Liszt's development as a composer, the position as court director of music at Weimar signified a crucial change: his creative activity, which up to this point had focused on virtuosity at the piano, was now mainly dedicated to orchestral compositions. His influences in this genre included Hector Berlioz (idée fixe) and Ludwig van Beethoven (program music). Eschewing a strict formal structure as his compositional starting point, Liszt opted for a more free-form poetic approach.

American Record Guide
The big news here is the march Liszt wrote in 1849 for the Weimar centennial of Goethe's birth, though he rewrote it 10 years later; there's nothing about it in the paltry notes so I'm guessing this is the later version. I defy you to sit through this piece without thinking of the march from Sibelius's Karelia Suite. It's an upbeat processional that wears its chromatic mantle lightly. But Ferencsik also recorded Liszt's Hungarian Battle March for Hungaroton - you may know it as Hungarian Storm March - and that could certainly have been included here.

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Liszt, Franz : Hungarian Rhapsodies (19) for Piano, S 244

• Conductor: András Kórodi
• Running Time: 11 min. 59 sec.
• Period Time: Romantic
• Written: 1847

Liszt, Franz : Hungarian Rhapsodies (19) for Piano, S 244

• Conductor: András Kórodi
• Running Time: 10 min. 20 sec.
• Period Time: Romantic
• Written: 1847

Liszt, Franz : Hungarian Rhapsodies (19) for Piano, S 244

• Conductor: András Kórodi
• Running Time: 8 min. 30 sec.
• Period Time: Romantic
• Written: 1847

Liszt, Franz : Hungarian Rhapsodies (19) for Piano, S 244

• Conductor: András Kórodi
• Running Time: 11 min. 12 sec.
• Period Time: Romantic
• Written: 1847

Liszt, Franz : Hungarian Rhapsody, for piano no 5 in E minor ("Héroïde-élégiaque"), S. 244/5 (LW A132/5)

• Conductor: András Kórodi
• Running Time: 10 min. 11 sec.
• Period Time: Romantic
• Written: 1847

Liszt, Franz : Hungarian Rhapsodies (19) for Piano, S 244

• Conductor: András Kórodi
• Running Time: 13 min. 26 sec.
• Period Time: Romantic
• Written: 1847

Liszt, Franz : Introduction, Fugue and Magnificat from "Dante Symphony"

• Conductor: Hartmut Haenchen
• Running Time: 20 min. 53 sec.
• Period Time: Romantic
• Form: Orchestral
• Written: 1855-1856
• Studio/Live: Live

Liszt, Franz : A la Chapelle Sixtine, transcribed for orchestra, S. 360 (LW G26)

• Conductor: Hartmut Haenchen
• Running Time: 17 min. 39 sec.
• Period Time: Romantic
• Written: 1862
• Studio/Live: Live

Liszt, Franz : Illustrations du Prophète (after Meyerbeer)

• Conductor: Yuri Ahronovitch
• Running Time: 16 min. 31 sec.
• Period Time: Romantic
• Written: 1848-1849

Liszt, Franz : Orpheus, S 98

• Conductor: János Ferencsik
• Running Time: 11 min. 20 sec.
• Period Time: Romantic
• Form: Orchestral
• Written: 1853-1854

Liszt, Franz : Mazeppa, S 100

• Conductor: János Ferencsik
• Running Time: 17 min. 1 sec.
• Period Time: Romantic
• Form: Orchestral
• Written: 1851-1854

Liszt, Franz : Hungaria, symphonic poem for orchestra, S. 103 (LW G13)

• Conductor: János Ferencsik
• Running Time: 21 min. 33 sec.
• Period Time: Romantic
• Form: Orchestral
• Written: 1854

Liszt, Franz : Rákóczi-Marsch, for piano in A minor (Version 4a, simplification of S. 244a), S. 244b

• Conductor: Gyula Nemeth
• Running Time: 10 min. 40 sec.
• Period Time: Romantic
• Written: after 1865

Liszt, Franz : Rákóczi-Marsch nach dem Orchester-Begleitung, for piano in A minor (Version 4), S. 244a (LW A224)

• Performer: Jenö Jandó (Piano)
• Running Time: 6 min. 23 sec.
• Period Time: Romantic
• Form: March
• Written: 1863

Liszt, Franz : Festmarsch zur Goethe Jubiläumsfeier (I & II), for orchestra, S. 115 (LW G5)

• Conductor: Gyula Nemeth
• Running Time: 9 min. 22 sec.
• Period Time: Romantic
• Form: March
• Written: 1849-1857

Liszt, Franz : Tasso - Lamento e trionfo, S 96 :: Lamento e Trionfo, symphonic poem for orchestra (4 versions), S. 96 (LW G2)

• Conductor: János Ferencsik
• Notes: Composition written: 1847-54.
• Running Time: 19 min. 20 sec.
• Period Time: Romantic
• Form: Orchestral
• Written: 1847-1854