Liszt Piano Music, Vol 36 - Excelsior!

[Cover graphic]

Compact Disc CDA66995

£13.99

Recorded on 9, 10 March 1995

Recording Engineer: TRYGGVI TRYGGVASON
Recording Producer: TRYGGVI TRYGGVASON
Piano: STEINWAY; prepared by; ULRICH GERHARTZ
Design: TERRY SHANNON
Executive Producers: JOANNA GAMBLE; EDWARD PERRY

Duration: 74'55
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Front illustration: Gothic church on a rock near the sea (1815) by Karl Friedrich Schinkel (1781-1841)

FRANZ LISZT (1811-1886)
THE COMPLETE MUSIC FOR SOLO PIANO - 36

Excelsior!

and other rare original works

LESLIE HOWARD piano

Contents:

Excelsior! - Preludio [to The Bells of Strasburg Cathedral], S500 (1874) [3'41]
Die Zelle in Nonnenwerth, S534bis (2nd version, 1844) [6'49]
Consolations, S171a (first series; the original No 3 and the first versions of the other five) (c1845)
No 1 in E major [1'51]
No 2 in E major [4'03]
No 3 in C sharp minor [6'31]
No 4 in D flat major [3'16]
No 5 in E major [3'17]
No 6 in E major [4'13]
Die Zelle in Nonnenwerth, S534bis (2nd version, alternative text, 1844) [6'54]
Geharnischte Lieder, S511 (published 1861)
Vor der Schlacht [1'35]
Nicht gezagt! [3'00]
Es rufet Gott uns mahnend [2'06]
Rosario, S670 (1879)
Mysteria gaudiosa [1'46]
Mysteria dolorosa [2'10]
Mysteria gloriosa [1'39]
Schlummerlied im Grabe (Première Élégie, 1st version), S195a (1874) [5'52]
Entwurf der Ramanra-Elegie (Zweite Elegie, 1st draft), S196a (1877) [4'23]
Weimars Volkslied (No 2 in F major), S542a (1873) [1'15]
National Hymne: Kaiser Wilhelm!, S197b (1876) [5'03]
Fanfare zur Enthüllung des Carl-Augusts Monument, S542b (1875) [1'04]
Weimars Volkslied (No 1 in C major), S542 (1857) [5'50]
All tracks are believed to be first recordings

'Muy interesantes, indispensables para lisztianos' (Ritmo, Spain)

'I constantly admired his near orchestral range of sonority - his strength in grandiloquence and his hypnotic sustaining power in intimacy. Everything is played with total conviction' (Gramophone)

'Even if it contained nothing but the [early version of the] Consolations, this volume would be one of the most revelatory in the series ... A major contribution to the catalogue. Enthusiastically endorsed' (Fanfare, USA)

See also:: Liszt Piano Music, Vol 1 - The Waltzes; Liszt Piano Music, Vol 2 - Ballades, Legends and Polonaises; Liszt Piano Music, Vol 3 - Konzertsolo & Odes Funebres; Liszt Piano Music, Vol 4 - Transcendental Studies; Liszt Piano Music, Vol 5 - Saint-Saëns, Chopin and Berlioz transcriptions; Liszt Piano Music, Vol 6 - Liszt at the Opera - I; Liszt Piano Music, Vol 7 - Harmonies Poetiques et Religieuses; Liszt Piano Music, Vol 8 - Christmas Tree & Via Crucis; Liszt Piano Music, Vol 9 - Sonata, Elegies & Consolations; Liszt Piano Music, Vol 10 - The Hexaméron; Liszt Piano Music, Vol 11 - The Late Pieces; Liszt Piano Music, Vol 12 - Troisième Année de pèlerinage; Liszt Piano Music, Vol 13 - A la Chapelle Sixtine; Liszt Piano Music, Vol 14 - Christus, St Elisabeth & St Stanislaus; Liszt Piano Music, Vol 15 - 'Songs without Words'; Liszt Piano Music, Vol 16 - Bunte Reihe; Liszt Piano Music, Vol 17 - Liszt at the Opera - II; Liszt Piano Music, Vol 18 - Liszt at the Theatre; Liszt Piano Music, Vol 19 - Liebesträume and the Songbooks; Liszt Piano Music, Vol 20 - Album d'un Voyageur; Liszt Piano Music, Vol 21 - Soirées Musicales - Soirées Italiennes; Liszt Piano Music, Vol 22 - The Beethoven Symphonies; Liszt Piano Music, Vol 23 - Harold In Italy; Liszt Piano Music, Vol 24 - Beethoven and Hummel Septets; Liszt Piano Music, Vol 25 - The Canticle of the Sun; Liszt Piano Music, Vol 26 - The Young Liszt; Liszt Piano Music, Vol 27 - Fantasies on National Songs and Anthems; Liszt Piano Music, Vol 28 - Dances and Marches; Liszt Piano Music, Vol 29 - Magyar Dalok & Magyar Rapszódiák; Liszt Piano Music, Vol 30 - Liszt at the Opera III; Liszt Piano Music, Vol 31 - The Schubert Transcriptions - I; Liszt Piano Music, Vol 32 - The Schubert Transcriptions - II; Liszt Piano Music, Vol 33 - The Schubert Transcriptions - III; Liszt Piano Music, Vol 34 - Douze Grandes Etudes; Liszt Piano Music, Vol 35 - Arabesques; Liszt Piano Music, Vol 37 - Tanzmomente; Liszt Piano Music, Vol 38 - Les Préludes; Liszt Piano Music, Vol 39 - Première Année de Pèlerinage; Liszt Piano Music, Vol 40 - Gaudeamus Igitur - Pièces d'occasion; Liszt Piano Music, Vol 41 - The Recitations with pianoforte; Liszt Piano Music, Vol 42 - Liszt at the Opera - IV; Liszt Piano Music, Vol 43 - Deuxième Année de Pèlerinage; Liszt Piano Music, Vol 44 - Early Beethoven Transcriptions; Liszt Piano Music, Vol 45 - Rapsodie Espagnole and other pieces on Spanish themes; Liszt Piano Music, Vol 46 - Meditations; Liszt Piano Music, Vol 47 - Litanies de Marie; Liszt Piano Music, Vol 48 - The Complete Paganini Études; Liszt Piano Music, Vol 49 - Schubert and Weber Transcriptions; Liszt Piano Music, Vol 50 - Liszt at the Opera - V; Liszt Piano Music, Vol 51 - Paralipomènes; Liszt Piano Music, Vol 52 - Ungarischer Romanzero; Liszt Piano Music, Vol 53a - Music for Piano and Orchestra - 1; Liszt Piano Music, Vol 53b - Music for Piano and Orchestra - 2; Liszt Piano Music, Vol 54 - Liszt at the Opera - VI; Liszt Piano Music, Vol 55 - Grande Fantaisie de Bravoure sur La Clochette; Liszt Piano Music, Vol 56 - Rarities, Curiosities, Album Leaves and Fragments; Liszt Piano Music, Vol 57 - Rapsodies Hongroises; Liszt: New Discoveries; Liszt: New Discoveries - 2; Liszt: Piano Music

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