Liszt: Mephisto Waltzes; Mephisto Polka / Cyprien Katsaris, piano

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Performer

• Cyprien Katsaris (Piano)

Composer

• Franz Liszt (1811 - 1886)

Notes & Reviews:

BBC Music Magazine
Visionary Liszt is delivered here with sometimes mind-blowing intensity; Katsaris brings it all the flair you could possibly want.

MusicWeb International
To the Sacred - and to Liszt's sublime Bénédiction de Dieu dans la solitude ('The Blessing of God in Solitude) from his Harmonies poétiques et religieuses. This lovely work must contain some of the most beautiful pianissimo passages in the whole piano repertoire. All is peaceful reverie; lyrical with rippling arpeggios but with an ardent religioso climax. A lovely moving, flowing performance this, to be set beside Marc-André Hamelin's on Hyperion. Bach's cantata, Weinen, Klagen, Sorgen, Zagen (Weeping, Lamenting, Sorrows, Fears) (BWV 12) inspired Liszt to use a bass line within it (and in the 'Crucifixus' of Bach's Mass in B Minor) and to transcribe it for piano following the death of Liszt's daughter Blandine. The music speaks eloquently of tears and mourning but there is also much anger here - it is as though the composer is shaking his fist at a malignant Providence for bestowing so much grief on him. An eloquent Liszt recital of sacred and profane piano music.

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Recording information: Teldec Studios, Berlin.

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Liszt, Franz : Bénédiction de Dieu dans la solitude, for piano (Harmonies poétiques no 3), S. 173/3 (LW A158/3)

• Performer: Cyprien Katsaris (Piano)
• Running Time: 17 min. 10 sec.
• Period Time: Romantic
• Written: 1851

Liszt, Franz : Der Tanz in der Dorfschenke, S 514 "Mephisto Waltz no 1"

• Performer: Cyprien Katsaris (Piano)
• Running Time: 11 min. 7 sec.
• Period Time: Romantic
• Form: Waltz
• Written: 1859-1862

Liszt, Franz : Mephisto Waltz, for piano no 2, S. 515 (LW A288)

• Performer: Cyprien Katsaris (Piano)
• Running Time: 11 min. 6 sec.
• Period Time: Romantic
• Form: Waltz
• Written: 1881

Liszt, Franz : Mephisto Waltz, for piano no 3 (I & II), S. 216 (LW A325)

• Performer: Cyprien Katsaris (Piano)
• Running Time: 8 min. 44 sec.
• Period Time: Romantic
• Form: Waltz
• Written: 1883

Liszt, Franz : Bagatelle ohne tonart for Piano, S 216a "Mephisto Waltz no 5"

• Performer: Cyprien Katsaris (Piano)
• Running Time: 2 min. 41 sec.
• Period Time: Romantic
• Written: 1885

Liszt, Franz : Mephisto Waltz, for piano no 4 (sketch for S. 696), S. 216b (LW A337)

• Performer: Cyprien Katsaris (Piano)
• Running Time: 2 min. 52 sec.
• Period Time: Romantic
• Written: 1885

Liszt, Franz : Mephisto Polka for Piano, S 217

• Performer: Cyprien Katsaris (Piano)
• Running Time: 4 min. 25 sec.
• Period Time: Romantic
• Written: 1882-1883

Liszt, Franz : Weinen, Klagen, Sorgen, Zagen (after Bach) :: Weinen, Klagen, for piano, S. 180 (LW A214)

• Performer: Cyprien Katsaris (Piano)
• Running Time: 15 min. 4 sec.
• Period Time: Romantic
• Written: 1862