Complete Piano Music: Music for Piano and Orchestra - 2

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LISZT
Complete Piano Music: Music for Piano and Orchestra - 2
Leslie Howard (piano) / Budapest Symphony Orchestra / Karl Anton Rickenbacher

[ Hyperion Complete Liszt Edition Vol 53b / 3 CD ]

Release Date: Tuesday 1 February 2011

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'Howard's dedication is clear in all his playing here, with clear, crisp articulation vividly caught in finely balanced sound' (The Guardian)

'Exemplary, and superbly recorded' (BBC Music Magazine)

'Hyperion's production, as always, is superb. For the Lisztian, this is indispensable' (Fanfare, USA)

'Howard's dedication is clear in all his playing here, with clear, crisp articulation vividly caught in finely balanced sound' (The Guardian)

This set and its companion (CDA67401/2) are perhaps the most important releases in Leslie Howard's complete survey of Liszt's piano music. In addition to such well known works as the mature Piano Concertos (two of the most popular works in the nineteenth-century Romantic repertoire) and the other lesser known but familiar pieces, several items here receive their first recordings; as a result of Leslie Howard's indefatigable research we can now hear orchestral versions of Hexaméron and the Grand Solo de concert for the first time. Also in new versions are the recently discovered Concerto in E flat, Op posth, and De Profundis. A re-examination of the manuscripts has led our pianist to make refinements to the published scores which provide a more accurate reflection of Liszt's intentions.

All these issues and more are documented in Leslie Howard's characteristically thorough notes.

Tracks:

Piano Concerto No 2 in A major S125

De Profundis - Psaume instrumental pour orchestre et piano principal S691

SCHUBERT 'Wanderer' Fantasy Op 15 (arranged for piano and orchestra by Liszt), S366

Concerto pathétique in E minor (version for piano and orchestra by Reuss and Liszt) S365a

WEBER Konzertstück in F minor Op 79 (with Liszt's version of the solo part) S367a

Totentanz - Phantasie für Pianoforte und Orchester 'De Profundis' version S126i

SOPHIE MENTER (1846-1918) probably written with Liszt's collaboration, S714 (1885) Ungarische Zigeunerweisen (Konzert im ungarischen Styl)
orchestrated by Tchaikovsky in 1892