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A Liszt Portrait

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Titelverzeichnis

Disc 1

1 1. Faust
2 2. Gretchen
3 3. Mephistopheles

Disc 2

1 1. Inferno: Lento
2 2. Purgatorio: Andante con moto quasi allegretto, tranquillo assai -
3 Magnificat
4 A la Chapelle Sixtine S 461

Disc 3

1 Bergsinfonie (Ce qu'on entend sur la montagne) (Sinfonische Dichtung Nr. 1)
2 Tasso. Lamento e Trionfo (Sinfonische Dichtung Nr. 2)
3 Les Préludes (Sinfonische Dichtung Nr. 3)

Disc 4

1 Orpheus (Sinfonische Dichtung Nr. 4)
2 Prometheus (Sinfonische Dichtung Nr. 5)
3 Mazeppa (Sinfonische Dichtung Nr. 6)
4 Festklänge (Sinfonische Dichtung Nr. 7)

Disc 5

1 Héroïde funèbre (Heldenklage) (Sinfonische Dichtung Nr. 8)
2 Hungaria (Sinfonische Dichtung Nr. 9)
3 Hamlet (Sinfonische Dichtung Nr. 10)

Disc 6

1 Die Hunnenschlacht (Sinfonische Dichtung Nr. 11)
2 Die Ideale (Sinfonische Dichtung Nr. 12)
3 1. Die Wiege
4 2. Der Kampf ums Dasein
5 3. Zum Grabe: Die Wiege des zukünftigen Lebens

Disc 7

1 Der nächtliche Zug S 513a (Episode aus Lenaus Faust)
2 Mephisto-Walzer Nr. 1 (Der Tanz in der Dorfschenke) (Episode aus Lenaus Faust) (für Orchester)
3 Mephisto-Walzer Nr. 2 (für Orchester)
4 Szózat und Hymnus

Disc 8

1 Präludium
2 Fuge
3 Weinen, Klagen, Sorgen, Zagen S 180 (Variationen über den 1. Satz aus Bachs Kantate BWV 12)
4 Choralfantasie
5 Fuge

Disc 9

1 Kyrie
2 Gloria
3 Credo
4 Sanctus
5 Benedictus
6 Agnus Dei

Disc 10

1 Sonate für Klavier h-moll S 178
2 Nr. 1: Sonett 47
3 Nr. 2: Sonett 104
4 Nr. 3: Sonett 123
5 Nr. 1: (ohne Satzbezeichnung)

Disc 11

1 Nr. 1: Preludio
2 Nr. 2: a-moll
3 Nr. 3: Paysage
4 Nr. 4: Mazeppa
5 Nr. 5: Feux follets
6 Nr. 6: Vision
7 Nr. 7: Eroica
8 Nr. 8: Wilde Jagd
9 Nr. 9: Ricordanza
10 Nr. 10 f-moll: Appassionata
11 Nr. 11: Harmonies du soir
12 Nr. 12: Chasse-neige

Disc 12

1 Ungarische Rhapsodie für Klavier Nr. 1 E-Dur
2 Ungarische Rhapsodie für Klavier Nr. 2 cis-moll (Lento a capriccio)
3 Ungarische Rhapsodie für Klavier Nr. 3 B-Dur
4 Ungarische Rhapsodie für Klavier Nr. 4 Es-Dur
5 Ungarische Rhapsodie für Klavier Nr. 5 e-moll "Héroide élégiaque"
6 Ungarische Rhapsodie für Klavier Nr. 6 Des-Dur
7 Ungarische Rhapsodie für Klavier Nr. 7 d-moll
8 Ungarische Rhapsodie für Klavier Nr. 8 fis-moll (Lento a capriccio)
9 Ungarische Rhapsodie für Klavier Nr. 9 Es-Dur "Pesther Carneval"

Disc 13

1 Ungarische Rhapsodie für Klavier Nr. 10 E-Dur "Preludio"
2 Ungarische Rhapsodie für Klavier Nr. 11 a-moll
3 Ungarische Rhapsodie für Klavier Nr. 12 cis-moll
4 Ungarische Rhapsodie für Klavier Nr. 13 a-moll
5 Ungarische Rhapsodie für Klavier Nr. 14 f-moll
6 Ungarische Rhapsodie für Klavier Nr. 15 a-moll "Rákóczy-Marsch"
7 Ungarische Rhapsodie für Klavier Nr. 16 A-Dur
8 Ungarische Rhapsodie für Klavier Nr. 17 d-moll
9 Ungarische Rhapsodie für Klavier Nr. 18 fis-moll
10 Ungarische Rhapsodie für Klavier Nr. 19 d-moll

Disc 14

1 Elsas Brautzug zum Münster
2 Elsas Traum
3 Lohengrins Verweis an Elsa
4 Festspiel und Brautlied
5 O, du mein holder Abendstern
6 Ballade
7 Spinnerlied
8 Wallhall
9 Am stillen Herd
10 Feierlicher marsch zum heiligen Graal

Disc 15

1 Konzertparaphrase für Klavier über Giuseppe Verdis Ernani (Oper in 4 Akten)
2 Salve Maria
3 Miserere
4 Konzertparaphrase für Klavier über Giuseppe Verdis Rigoletto (Oper in 3 Akten)
5 Finale: Coro di festa e marcia funebre
6 Agnus Dei
7 Reminiscences de Boccanegra S 438 (nach Giuseppe Verdi)
8 Danza sacra e duetto finale

Disc 16

1 Hochzeitsmarsch - Elfenreigen
2 Les Adieux S 409 (Rêverie sur un motif de Romeo et Juliette) (nach Gounod)
3 Fantasie über Themen aus Vincenzo Bellinis La Sonnambula (Die Nachtwandlerin)
4 Berceuse
5 Valse
6 Valse d'Adèle (für die linke Hand) (transkribiert von Franz Liszt)
7 Réminiscenses de Don Juan (nach Wolfgang A. Mozart)

Disc 17

1 Malédiction e-moll S 121 (Konzert für Klavier und Kammerorchester)
2 1. Lento
3 2. Allegro vivace
4 3. Andantino, senza interruzione - Vivace animato
5 Andante
6 Allegro moderato
7 Tempo primo - Allegro - Allegro marziale

Disc 18

1 1. Allegro
2 2. Quasi adagio
3 3. Allegretto vivace
4 4. Allegro animato
5 5. Allegro marziale animato
6 1. Adagio sostenuto assai
7 2. Allegro agitato assai
8 3. Allegro moderato
9 4. Allegro deciso sempre allegro
10 5. Marzaile, un poco meno allegro
11 6. Allegro animato
12 Totentanz (Paraphrase über Dies irae) S 126 (für Klavier und Orchester)
13 Konzert für Klavier und Orchester Nr. 3 Es-Dur op. posth.

Disc 19

1 Fantasie über Themen aus Beethovens Die Ruinen von Athen S 122
2 Polonaise brillante S 367 (nach Carl Maria von Webers Polacca brillante op. 72)
3 Concerto pathétique e-moll
4 Fantasie über ungarische Volkslieder
5 1. Allegro con fuoco, ma non troppo
6 2. Adagio
7 3. Presto
8 4. Allegro

Disc 20

1 Paralipomènes à la Divina Commedia S 158
2 Mephisto-Walzer Nr. 1 (Der Tanz in der Dorfschenke) (Episode aus Lenaus Faust) (für Klavier)
3 Prelude
4 Paysage
5 Feux follet
6 Vision
7 Appassionata f-moll
8 Harmonies du soir
9 Chasse neige
10 Rhapsodie espagnole S 254

Disc 21

1 Chappelle de Guillaume Tell
2 Au lac de Wallenstadt
3 Vallée d'Obermann
4 Le mal du pays
5 Les cloches de Geneve
6 1. Allegro maestoso
7 2. Quasi adagio - Allegretto vivace - Allegro animato
8 3. Allegro marziale animato

Disc 22

1 Sonate für Klavier h-moll S 178
2 Der Leiermann
3 Täuschung
4 Gretchen am Spinnrad
5 Die junge Nonne
6 Ave Maria
7 Erlkönig

Disc 23

1 1. Lento
2 2. Grandioso
3 3. Andante sostenuto
4 4. Fuge: Allegro energico
5 5. Stretta quasi presto
6 1. Andante
7 2. Presto agitato
8 3. Tempo 1
9 4. Più tosto
10 5. Più mosso
11 Bagatelle sans tonalité S 216a
12 Csárdás macabre S 224
13 La lugubre gondola
14 Mephisto-Walzer Nr. 1 (Der Tanz in der Dorfschenke) (Episode aus Lenaus Faust) (für Klavier)

Disc 24

1 Sextett
2 Miserere
3 Fantasie über Themen aus Vincenzo Bellinis Norma
4 Ouvertüre
5 Benediction and oath
6 Pilgrims' Chorus
7 Nr. 1 g-moll: Tremolo
8 Nr. 2 Es-Dur: Octave
9 Nr. 3 gis-moll: La campanella
10 Nr. 4 E-Dur: Arpeggio
11 Nr. 5 E-Dur: La Chasse
12 Nr. 6 a-moll: Variationen

Disc 25

1 Nr. 1: Sonett 47
2 Nr. 2: Sonett 104
3 Nr. 3: Sonett 123
4 Venezia e Napoli - Tarantella
5 Invocation
6 Bénédiction de Dieu dans la solitude
7 Pensées des morts
8 Funérailles
9 Cantique d'amour

Disc 26

1 Waldesrauschen (Dans le bois) S 145,1
2 Nr. 2: La leggierezza
3 Nr. 3: As-Dur
4 Ungarische Rhapsodie für Klavier Nr. 12 cis-moll
5 Nr. 10: Appassionata
6 Sonate für Klavier h-moll S 178
7 Weinen, Klagen, Sorgen, Zagen S 180 (Variationen über den 1. Satz aus Bachs Kantate BWV 12)

Disc 27

1 Sonate für Klavier h-moll S 178
2 Ungarische Rhapsodie für Klavier Nr. 15 a-moll "Rákóczy-Marsch"
3 Sonate für Klavier h-m-oll S 178
4 Ungarische Rhapsodie für Klavier Nr. 9 Es-Dur "Pesther Carneval"
5 Valse oubliée Nr. 1 S 215,1

Disc 28

1 Eglogue
2 Sposalizio
3 Il Penseroso
4 Canzonetta del Salvator Rosa
5 Sonetto 123 del Petrarca
6 Die Stadt
7 Die junge Nonne
8 Am Meer
9 Frühlingsglaube
10 Auf dem Waser zu singen
11 Der Doppelgänger
12 Erlkönig

Disc 29

1 Reminiscences de Robert le Diable (Valse infernale) (nach Giacomo Meyerbeer)
2 Gnomenreigen (Ronde des lutins) S 145
3 Mephisto-Polka
4 Mephisto-Walzer Nr. 1 (Der Tanz in der Dorfschenke) (Episode aus Lenaus Faust) (für Klavier)
5 Réminiscenses de Don Juan (nach Wolfgang A. Mozart)
6 Waltz

Disc 30

1 Paraphrasen über Richard Wagners Tannhäuser
2 Paraphrasen über Giuseppe Verdis Rigoletto
3 Hochzeitsmarsch und Elfentanz
4 Paraphrasen über Daniel Francois E. Aubers La Muette de Portici
5 Grand galop chromatique
6 Valse oubliée Nr. 1 S 215,1
7 Waldesrauschen (Dans le bois) S 145,1
8 Les jeux d'eau à la Villa d'Este
9 Gnomenreigen (Ronde des lutins) S 145
10 Valse-Impromptu
11 Ungarische Rhapsodie für Klavier Nr. 19 d-moll

Produktbeschreibungen

Die Meisterwerke von Franz Liszt auf einer fulminanten 30-CD Box, zeitgerecht zum 200. Geburtstag des charismatischen Genies der romantisch-virtuosen Musik. Die Box überrascht mit den geistlichen Werken des "Hexenmeisters" am Klavier, der neben seinen weltlichen Abenteuern mit schönen Frauen auch ein Amt als Abbé in Rom bekleidete. Seine Klavierkonzerte liegen hier in wunderbarer Einspielung vor, ebenso die Solowerke Liszts, seine Rhapsodien usw., die für jeden Pianisten der Gradmesser seiner Virtuosität und seines klanglich-musikalischen Könnens darstellen (Liszt soll vor allem mit dem 1. Satz von Beethovens Mondscheinsonate mehr im Publikum ausgelöst haben als mit seinen wilden Etüden). Ein umfassendes Bild des rätselhaft vielfältigen Schaffens dieser Lichtgestalt der Romantik. Kunstsinnige Folklore und Musikalität zum Satthören!

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  • Auslaufartikel (Produktion durch Hersteller eingestellt) ‏ : ‎ Nein
  • Produktabmessungen ‏ : ‎ 13,69 x 8,15 x 13,46 cm; 802,86 Gramm
  • Hersteller ‏ : ‎ Brilliant Classics
  • Label ‏ : ‎ Brilliant Classics
  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B004MRX8HE
  • Anzahl Disks ‏ : ‎ 30
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  • Jochen K.
    5,0 von 5 Sternen Tolle Qualität zum spitzen Preis
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    Tolle Soundqualität und schöne Verpackung !
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  • Alexander Arsov
    4,0 von 5 Sternen Rather a hotchpotch of selection, but at that price well worth having!
    Bewertet in Deutschland am 24. April 2011
    To begin with the negatives, the selection for this box set is really very weirdly done, to say the very least. The first 19 CDs all contain modern recordings and are fairly well organised, but the last 11 - referred to as 'Historical and Live recordings' - are a real mess of studio and live recordings that range from the late 1940s to the early 1990s. As one may imagine, the sound quality varies enormously: from barely passable to absolutely superb. In terms of titles the selection is no less promiscuous: you get no fewer than SIX recordings of the Sonata (Yingdi Sun, Richter, Brendel, Berman and Gilels - twice, and on one CD at that), yet such important works like the Second Ballade and the Second Legende are completely missing. I also wish Brilliant had enlarged the box set with three CDs more in order to include ''Christus'' with Helmuth Rilling but that's OK since the recording is available separately and is very cheap indeed.

    The second major disappointment is the booklet. Well, there is no booklet, really, just one CD more from which you can get access to the liner notes on the website of Brilliant classics, or you may use them as PDF files from the CD. The claim on the box that these contain 'illuminating booklet notes by renowned Liszt scholars' is bogus. Most of the notes are written by Ates Orga and Jed Distler who are as much Liszt scholars as 'Lord of the Rings' is history. (Ates who?!) Now the notes do have some slight informative value, but if you skip reading them you really wouldn't skip anything of great value. Besides, sometimes these writings contain a character assassination worthy of Ernest Newman himself:

    'Now, Franz Liszt was never afraid of being "sensational." Personally, he was attractive to women, his affairs were notorious, his mistresses were titled, and his illegitimate progeny legion. Both as a man and as a composer he managed to combine with a great deal of success that rather strange blend of religion and sex. In fact, he ended his days as an abbé, became very friendly with the Pope, and composed a great deal of rather perfumed and epicene religious music.'

    This is a typical piece of 'sensational' Liszt 'criticism. Leaving aside idiocies like 'religion and sex', which Leslie Howard brilliantly called 'intellectually pusillanimous', its gross historical inaccuracy is glaring. Liszt had exactly three illegitimate children, he recognised them as his own and was proud to give them his name. His 'notorious' affairs, as made clear by Alan Walker in his monumental three-volume biography, rest more on rumours and gossip than on historical reality; that he was attractive to women was surely no fault of Liszt, much less is he to be accused that many females who fancied him were actually mentally deranged. As for the 'perfumed and epicene religious music', are we talking of the magisterial oratorio 'Christus', the harshly dissonant 'Via Crucis' or the moving Psalm 13? It is no surprise that the above passage, taken from the notes to the Faust Symphony, is actually anonymous.

    In addition to these largely useless, not to say misleading, notes, there is another part which gives short biographies of the many artists who appear on the 30 CDs. These fair much better indeed. They can be read with profit and pleasure, and I shall make some use of them further in this review.

    Having said all that, the box set is absolutely worth having - consider the price: 30 CDs for 60 bucks (at most), namely about 2 bucks per disc. Granted, there is some junk here, but there is much more to be enjoyed, no matter whether you are a seasoned Lisztian or a Lisztian neophyte. (One little piece of advice to the latter: skip the liner notes and read the books of Alan Walker and Humphrey Searle.)

    Now let's look at the contents of these 30 CDs in more detail.

    CD 1. 'Faust' Symphony. György Korondi, tenor. Hungarian State Orchestra. Janos Ferencsik. Recorded: 1994.
    It is only fair that the box set should start with Liszt's greatest orchestral masterpiece. I wish Brilliant had included Inbal's eloquent rendition which is also available (coupled with the Dante Symphony), but Ferencsik has done a fine job too. The performance may occasionally lack subtlety of interpretation or clarity of detail, but it does have a kind of sweeping passion that suits the music to perfection; it also fits to the rather fast tempi Ferencsik employs. All in all, he puts to shame many illustrious colleagues of his, such as Sinopoli, Barenboim, Rattle, Chailly, Fischer or Dorati: all of them had far better orchestras and recording opportunities, yet none of them conveys the greatness of this music as Ferencsik does. That said, he is not up to comparison with Muti or Beecham. But great music is to be enjoyed, not compared. This is a highly enjoyable performance in good, if not excellent, digital sound.

    CD 2. 'Dante' Symphony. Netherlands Philharmonic. Hartmut Haenchen. Recorded live: 1995.
    This is actually the performance which is coupled with Inbal's 'Faust' on the double CD issued separately by Brilliant which I have mentioned above. Well, neither the performance nor the recording (made in Concertgebouw) is first rate, but I have heard a great deal worse. The more interesting thing on this CD is the ''bonus track'' (nearly 24 min long) 'A la Chapelle Sixtine'. So far as I know, this is the only recording of this piece ever made. Which is a shame because it is a highly original coupling of Mozart's 'Ave Verum Corpus' and Allegri's 'Miserere', both treated in a thoroughly Lisztian manner. Check Leslie Howard's amazing recording of the solo piano version, by the way. As for Mr Haenchen, he of course leaves something to be desired, but the rarity of the piece excuses him.

    CD 3-7. Complete Symphonic Poems + Two Episodes from Lenau's Faust + Mephisto Waltz No. 2 + Szozat und Hymnus - Fantasie. Budapest Symphony Orchestra. Arpad Joo. Recorded: 1984-85.
    This is altogether an excellent set of recordings, also available separately and almost indecently cheap. In terms of sound quality Arpad Joo is no match for the more famous complete recordings of Haitink (DECCA) and Masur (EMI), but in terms of musicianship he is way superior to both of them taken together. The sound here, though digital, is not especially well recorded and seldom has the dynamic range and the fullness one is right to expect. No matter. These are fine performances worthy the time of anybody seriously interested in Liszt's symphonic music. The last CD with the ''bonus tracks'' contains some extraordinary masterpieces which are even more seldom performed than the symphonic poems. (If anybody is interested, there are two other interesting recordings of the ''Two Episodes...'': Ansermet for DECCA and the brand new Volkov for Hyperion.)

    CD 8. Organ works. Hans-Jürgen Kaiser. Recorded: 1997.
    This is one of the highlights of the set. It was recorded on the Ladegast organ in the Schwerin dom and it contains some of Liszt's greatest works for organ, most notably the enormous 'Fantasia and Fugue: 'Ad nos, ad salutarem undam' based on a theme of Meyerbeer.

    CD 9. Missa Solemnis (Graner Festival Mass). Budapest Symphony Orchestra. Janos Ferencsik. Recorded: 1994.
    The Graner Mass is generally considered to be one Liszt's choral masterpieces, perhaps the greatest one after his oratorio 'Christus'. I have to go a long way until I even begin to understand this work. So here I will only say that the recording is well done without being exceptional.

    CD 10. The Sonata, the Three Petrach Sonnets, the First Legende. Yingdi Sun. Recorded: 2008.
    From the liner notes I understand that Yingdi Sun is a young Chinese pianist (born in 1980) who have won First Prize at the 7th International Franz Liszt Piano Competition in Utrecht, 2005. His performances are on the slow side and generally perfectly mediocre in terms of interpretation. Whether the certain dullness and vapidity have anything to do with the piano Fazioli or not, I don't really know.

    CD 11. Transcendental Etudes. Vladimir Ovchinnikov. EMI. Year not stated.
    This recording is already almost a classic. Stupendously virtuoso performance, but by no means unmusical. I would take Bolet or Arrau any time over Mr Ovchinnikov, but he is certainly way better than Cziffra or Berezovksy, to name but two bangers. It's good that Brilliant could convince EMI to include this recording here.

    CD 12-13. Complete Hungarian Rhapsodies. Artur Pizarro. Recorded: 2005. Piano Blüthner.
    One of the pleasant surprises of the box set. Rather slow and meditative performances, somewhat missing the fire of the fast parts, but wonderfully musical and often imaginative. The liner notes are not very helpful, but it seems that since Mr Pizarro won the Leeds International Piano Competition in 1990 he has had a distinguished career.

    CD 14-16. Operatic transcriptions. Michele Campanella. Recorded: 2000-2005.
    Michele Campanella is an internationally renowned pianist with a great deal of experience in playing Liszt. His recordings here are disappointing though. There is one CD with transcriptions from Verdi's operas, one from Wagner's and one miscellaneous, including the Don Juan Fantasy. On the whole, signor Campanella's playing is bizarre mixture of very unusual accents and, most unfortunately, poor handling of the melodic line. I don't know whether he is technically handicapped or simply he speaks a different musical language than I do, but it's difficult to listen to any of his performances twice.

    CD 17-19. Works for Piano and Orchestra. Louis Lortie and Nelson Freire, pianos. George Pehlivanian and Michel Plasson, conductors. Recorded: 1994-2000.
    If anything, this is quite a comprehensive collection. Apart from the two concertos and the Totentanz (fine performances by Nelson Freire), it includes such rarely performed masterpieces like Malediction, the Symphonic Fantasy on Berlioz's Lelio and De Profundis: all of them well played and well recorded. The last disc includes some of Liszt's arrangements for piano and orchestra of music by others: Schubert's Wanderer Fantasie, Weber's Polonaise brilliante, the Fantasia on Beethoven's ''Ruins of Athens'' and the famous Fantasia on Hungarian Folk Themes (which is actually an orchestration of Liszt's own Hungarian Rhapsody No. 14). All in all, very enjoyable collection in good sound.

    At this point the section of ''Historical and Live Performances'' starts and the mindlessness of the selection excludes any detailed discussion of the contents, or even the listing of all contents. To say nothing of Brilliant's shoddy and insufficient information about recording locations or conditions; it is often difficult to say whether the recording you're listening to is a live or studio one. All the same, few highlights, however, must be mentioned.

    CD 20-22. Piano Works. Lazar Berman. Recorded: 1950-1981.
    Among the highlights here are some of the Schubert's songs from 1981 and selections from 'Switzerland', the 'first year' of 'Annees de Pelerinage' (1972), both recorded in very good sound; Berman's extremely powerful rendition of 'Chapelle de Guillaume Tell' is unforgettable; his 'Vallee d'Obermann' is memorable also. Other fairly late recordings in more or less fine sound include the Dante Sonata (1971) and Mephisto Waltz No. 1 (1967); the sound quality of the B minor Sonata (1955) and the First Concerto (1955, with Kondrashin) is rather worse, but the virility of the playing redeems that completely. There is also a selection of live recordings from the 1950s of some of the Transcendental etudes, but here the sound is all but poor, and I have never much cared about Berman's interpretations of these pieces, celebrated as they are.

    CD 23-25. Piano Works. Alfred Brendel. Studio recordings, Vienna, 1955-59.
    One of the most wonderful surprises in the set. Definitely. I generally dislike Brendel's playing, and his Liszt in particular, for I have never had much patience with his ponderous and mannered approach, but these early recordings (he was in his 20s when he made them) hardly have anything to do with his later ones. True, some of the mannerisms that were to mar his playing later are already apparent, but on the whole these are amazingly passionate and powerful renditions, recorded in superb for its time sound; indeed, the sonority is enormous, if a little harsh. Among the highlights are a complete recording of the six Paganini etudes, both the Dante and the B minor sonatas, the First Mephisto Waltz and the Three Petrach Sonnets. CD 24 also contains some of Liszt's operatic transcriptions and paraphrases, among which a fine rendition of the Pilgrim's Chorus from Wagner's 'Tannhäuser' and a simply stupendous recording of Weber's overture to 'Oberon' stand out. Slightly less compelling are the Norma Fantasy and the ''Miserere'' from Verdi's 'Il Trovatore'.

    CD 26. Piano Works. Kissin, Richter, Yudina. Recorded: 1950-1989.
    This is by far the most ridiculously selected disc of the set. Most of it is occupied by Kissin's early recordings (1983-1989, including the Twelfth rhapsody and the Tenth Transcendental study) which are quite fascinating for such a tender age, but the sound quality is unfortunately abominable. Then the tracklist abruptly switches to the B minor Sonata (Richter, live, 1965; never found his Liszt very good, and so is the case here) and the ''Weinen, Klagen, Sorgen, Zagen'' variations with Maria Yudina (1950). Quite a disparate selection, to put it mildly.

    CD 27. Piano Works. Emil Gilels. Recorded: 1949-65.
    This is the CD that contains two renditions of the B minor sonata, a very odd choice indeed. But since Gilels is one of the pianists who consistently impresses me with his interpretations, I don't complain. One of the recordings is from the 1949 and the sound, as you can imagine, is poor; the other is from 1965, and the sound is indeed not so much better. Still, it IS better and it shows Gilels in top form, giving a supremely fine performance of a truly great work. As 'bonus tracks' there are fine recordings in poor sound of Hungarian rhapsodies Nos. 9 and 15 (Rackoczy March) and the charming Valse oubilee No. 1. It's only fair to Gilels to add that his playing completely transcends the inferior sound of these recordings.

    CD 28. Piano Works. Vladimir Sofronitzky. Recorded: 1949-53.
    Fascinatingly unbridled performance from the ''old Romantic school'' ranging from ''Il Penseroso'' and ''Eglogue'' to Schubert's ''Auf dem Wasser zu Singen'' and ''Erlkönig'', surprisingly well-recorded for its time. Despite, yet again, the weird selection, this is a very interesting disc to listen to.

    CD 29. Piano Works. Earl Wild. Recorded: 1968.
    Definitely one of the high points in the whole set. Originally recorded for Vanguard Classics and produced by Seymour Solomon, these recordings are all but legendary today. Wild's astonishing virtuosity does from time to time lead him astray from the music, but on the whole he is a fine musician too; he can always be counted to raise your appreciation of a well-known work to another level. The highlights here include stupendous performances of the Don Juan Fantasy, Mephisto Waltz No. 1 and the Waltzes from Gounod's ''Faust'' and Meyerbeer's ''Robert le Diable'' (the so-called ''Valse infernale'').

    CD 30. Piano Works. György Cziffra. Recorded: 1954-56.
    Cziffra is one of those fabulous technicians for whose musicianship I never have had a high opinion. This disc, however, is quite nice indeed: for once, Cziffra's really unbelievable finger dexterity does not stand in the way of mature music-making. Half of the disc is dedicated to paraphrases and this is the better half. It includes a good performance of the Tannhäuser overture and excellent renditions of the Rigoletto Paraphrase and the paraphrase of the Wedding March (and the Dance of the Fairies) from Mendelssohn's 'A Midsummer Night's Dream'.
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    A fine collecion of his music, which is well balanced and excellent price. Hours of pleasure of this master is the owners benefit.
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    J'entends déjà : Liszt au kilomètre ! Erreur, votre honneur .Ce coffret à été très inteliggement conçu : des très bons à super interprètes de cette musique pour la partie stéréo ( Ovchinnikov dans les Etudes Transcendantes - à part Lazar Berman ,je ne connais personne qui soit à ce point convaincant ), et la deuxième partie consacrée au " vielles gloires " . Passionant et très instructif .
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    ミケーレ・カンパネッラという懐かしい名前のピアニストが２１世紀になってもバリバリ演奏活動してたんだ！　ピアニスト別（リスト弾き？）ＣＤでは、若き日のブレンデルがリストの難関：オベロン序曲、「ノルマ」の回想曲といった”リスト弾き”を目指したと感じさせられる１度しか録音しなかった曲が収録されてるのもリストマニア向けの選曲か？　ともあれ、いつでもＣＤで買えるようなリストのありきたりの曲よりも、あまり録音されなかったり、弾ける腕前のピアニストが限られる曲目が収録されているのがアゲアゲ〜。
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