'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)
Années de pèlerinage, deuxième année – Italie, S161
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Movement 1: Sposalizio
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Movement 2: Il penseroso
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Venezia e Napoli, S162
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No 1: Gondoliera
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No 2: Canzone
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No 3: Tarantella
[8:55]
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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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Super-budget price sampler
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