Hyperion Records | Liszt: The complete music for solo piano, Vol. 42

Liszt: The complete music for solo piano, Vol. 42 – Liszt at the Opera IV

CDA67101/2

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Recording details: August 1995
Unknown, Unknown
Produced by Tryggvi Tryggvason
Engineered by Tryggvi Tryggvason
Release date: November 1996
Total duration: 152 minutes 2 seconds
Available for download on iTunes: Yes

'This new two-CD set is as fascinating as any and contains many recordings which are thought to be first, and which are probably the first performances at all for more than 100 years. A pair of discs to which I shall often return, marvelling at the brio that Leslie Howard unfailingly brings to this taxing music' (Classic CD)

'A major revelation of nineteenth-century ideas and techniques. There is musical nourishment here as well as entertainment' (Gramophone)

'Obras brillantes, repletas de fuerza y apasionamiento, pero portadoras de un profundo sentido poético que ahora son interpretadas por un magistral Leslie Howard' (La Revista Integral, Spain)

Liszt: The complete music for solo piano, Vol. 42 – Liszt at the Opera IV

Leslie Howard (piano)

CD1	1	Réminiscences des Puritains, S390 [19:59] Franz Liszt (1811-1886) & Vincenzo Bellini (1801-1835)
	2	Salve Maria! de l'opéra Jérusalem 'I Lombardi', S431i [6:57] Franz Liszt (1811-1886) & Giuseppe Verdi (1813-1901)
	3	Don Carlos – Coro di festa e marcia funebre, S435 [8:22] Franz Liszt (1811-1886) & Giuseppe Verdi (1813-1901)
	4	Chœur des pèlerins – Chor der älteren Pilger aus der Oper Tannhäuser, S443ii [7:22] Franz Liszt (1811-1886) & Richard Wagner (1813-1883)
	5	Am stillen Herd – Lied aus Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, S448 [9:50] Franz Liszt (1811-1886) & Richard Wagner (1813-1883)
	6	Réminiscences de Lucrezia Borgia – Grande fantaisie I, S400 No 1 [11:14] Franz Liszt (1811-1886) & Gaetano Donizetti (1797-1848)
	7	Réminiscences de Lucrezia Borgia – Grande fantaisie II, S400 No 2 [14:31] Franz Liszt (1811-1886) & Gaetano Donizetti (1797-1848)
CD2	1	Réminiscences des Huguenots, S412ii second version [16:00] Franz Liszt (1811-1886) & Giacomo Meyerbeer (1791-1864)
	2	Andante finale aus König Alfred, S421 No 1 [8:14] Franz Liszt (1811-1886) & Joseph Joachim Raff (1822-1882)
	3	Marsch aus König Alfred, S421 No 2 [7:55] Franz Liszt (1811-1886) & Joseph Joachim Raff (1822-1882)
	4	Song of the Two Armed Men 'Der, welcher wandelt diese Straße', S634a [3:20] Franz Liszt (1811-1886) & Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791) Philip Moore (piano)
	5	Tyrolean Melody, S385a [1:27] Franz Liszt (1811-1886) & Daniel-François-Esprit Auber (1782-1871)
	6	Tarentelle di bravura d'après la Tarentelle de La Muette de Portici, S386ii [10:51] Franz Liszt (1811-1886) & Daniel-François-Esprit Auber (1782-1871)
	7	Salve Maria de l'opéra de Verdi Jérusalem, S431ii [5:07] Franz Liszt (1811-1886) & Giuseppe Verdi (1813-1901)
	8	I Puritani – Introduction et Polonaise, S391 [5:28] Franz Liszt (1811-1886) & Vincenzo Bellini (1801-1835)
	9	Grosse Concert-Fantasie aus der Oper Sonnambula, S393iii [15:25] Franz Liszt (1811-1886) & Vincenzo Bellini (1801-1835)

With this issue – No 42 in Leslie Howard's marathon traversal of Liszt's solo piano music – we join Liszt on his fourth 2-CD trip to the opera house to hear music familiar and unfamiliar by Mozart, Meyerbeer, Bellini, Donizetti, Verdi, Auber, Raff and Wagner. Over half of the music (93 minutes of the total 152) has never been recorded before.