Hyperion Records | Liszt: The complete music for solo piano, Vol. 43

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Landscape in Italy (1793) by Joseph Bidauld (1758-1846)

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Recording details: August 1996
Unknown, Unknown
Produced by Tryggvi Tryggvason
Engineered by Tryggvi Tryggvason & Andrew Hallifax
Release date: February 1997
Total duration: 75 minutes 10 seconds

'A familiar enough masterpiece yet typically spiced by Howard with some fascinating side-steps and discoveries' (Gramophone)

'This disc is studded with pleasures, even (especially in the Petrarch sonnets) with flashes of ecstasy. Fine sound too' (Fanfare, USA)

Franz Liszt (1811-1886)

The complete music for solo piano, Vol. 43 – 2e Année de pèlerinage

Leslie Howard (piano)

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		Années de pèlerinage, deuxième année – Italie, S161
1		Movement 1: Sposalizio [7'25]
2		Movement 2: Il penseroso [5'16]
3		Movement 3: Canzonetta del Salvator Rosa [2'42]
4		Movement 4: Sonetto 47 del Petrarca [5'53]
5		Movement 5: Sonetto 104 del Petrarca [5'55]
6		Movement 6: Sonetto 123 del Petrarca [6'31]
7		Movement 7: Après une lecture du Dante 'Fantasia quasi Sonata' [17'36]
		Venezia e Napoli, S162
8		No 1: Gondoliera [6'06]
9		No 2: Canzone [3'55]
10		No 3: Tarantella [8'55]
11		Au bord d'une source, S160 No 4bis [4'56]

1: Années de pèlerinage, deuxième année – Italie, S161 (Liszt) - Movement 1: Sposalizio 2: Années de pèlerinage, deuxième année – Italie, S161 (Liszt) - Movement 2: Il penseroso 3: Années de pèlerinage, deuxième année – Italie, S161 (Liszt) - Movement 3: Canzonetta del Salvator Rosa 4: Années de pèlerinage, deuxième année – Italie, S161 (Liszt) - Movement 4: Sonetto 47 del Petrarca 5: Années de pèlerinage, deuxième année – Italie, S161 (Liszt) - Movement 5: Sonetto 104 del Petrarca 6: Années de pèlerinage, deuxième année – Italie, S161 (Liszt) - Movement 6: Sonetto 123 del Petrarca 7: Années de pèlerinage, deuxième année – Italie, S161 (Liszt) - Movement 7: Après une lecture du Dante 'Fantasia quasi Sonata' 8: Venezia e Napoli, S162 (Liszt) - No 1: Gondoliera 9: Venezia e Napoli, S162 (Liszt) - No 2: Canzone 10: Venezia e Napoli, S162 (Liszt) - No 3: Tarantella 11: Au bord d'une source, S160 No 4bis (Liszt)

This, the forty-third volume (and sixty-fifth disc) in Leslie Howard's Liszt encyclopaedia, includes the Second Book of the composer's Années de Pèlerinage, a work which derives its considerable inspiration from the art and literature of Italy. Here we find the final versions of the three Petrarch Sonnets and the famous Dante Sonata.

Alongside these works we have Venezia e Napoli, an ingenious set of encore pieces, and the intriguing coda to Au bord d'une source (from the Swiss volume of the Années) which Liszt penned for the young Italian composer/pianist Giovanni Sgambati in 1863.

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