Wild and crazy [2 CD set]

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Wild and crazy [2 CD set]
Vladimir Ashkenazy, Daniel Barenboim, Lang Lang, Wilhelm Kempff, Martha Argerich, Mikhail Pletnev, etc

[ Deutsche Grammophon / 2 CD ]

Release Date: Thursday 1 March 2012

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This is a revelatory compilation of Liszt's most daring and virtuosic piano music, a special celebration of his wild and crazy side from an array of great pianists - dazzling virtuosity, extreme harmonies and textures.

Tracks:

Mephisto Waltz No. 1
Vladimir Ashkenazy (piano)

Liebestraum, S541 No. 3 (Nocturne in A flat major)
Daniel Barenboim (piano)

Hungarian Rhapsody, S244 No. 2 in C sharp minor
arr. Vladimir Horowitz
Lang Lang (piano)

Il penseroso (Années de pèlerinage II, S. 161 No. 2)
Wilhelm Kempff (piano)

Hungarian Rhapsody, S244 No. 6 in D flat major
Martha Argerich (piano)

Funérailles (Harmonies poétiques et religieuses, S. 173 No. 7)
Mikhail Pletnev (piano)

Soirées de Vienne: valse-caprice No. 6 (after Schubert), D427 No. 6
Vladimir Horowitz (piano)

Totentanz, S126 for piano & orchestra
Jorge Bolet (piano) London Symphony Orchestra, Iván Fischer

A Midsummer Night's Dream: Wedding March & Dance of the Fairies (after Mendelssohn), S410
Egon Petri (piano)

Fantasy on Hungarian Folk-tunes, S123
Shura Cherkassky (piano) Berliner Philharmoniker, Herbert von Karajan

Widmung S566 after Schumann (Liebeslied)
Yundi Li (piano)

Grande Étude de Paganini, S. 141 No. 3 'La Campanella'
Yundi Li (piano)

Concert Paraphrase on Rigoletto, S.434 after Verdi's opera
Daniel Barenboim (piano)

Waldesrauschen, S145 No. 1
Géza Anda (piano)

Gnomenreigen, S145 No. 2
Mikhail Pletnev (piano)

Transcendental Study, S139 No. 5 'Feux Follets'
Sviatoslav Richter (piano)

Les jeux d'eaux à la Villa d'Este (Années de pèlerinage III, S. 163 No. 4)
Zoltán Kocsis (piano)

Transcendental Study, S139 No. 8 'Wilde Jagd'
Alice Sara Ott (piano)

Nuages gris, S199
Jean-Rodolphe Kars (piano)

La Lugubre Gondola I, S200 No. 1
Jean-Rodolphe Kars (piano)

Fantasy on Themes from Mozart's Marriage of Figaro and Don Giovanni, S697
Egon Petri (piano)

Consolation, S. 172 No. 1
Daniel Barenboim (piano)