Hyperion Records | Liszt: The complete music for solo piano, Vol. 56

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CDA67414/7

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Recording details: December 1998
Potton Hall, Dunwich, Suffolk, United Kingdom
Produced by Tryggvi Tryggvason
Engineered by Tryggvi Tryggvason
Release date: August 1999
Total duration: 290 minutes 0 seconds

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'All kinds of fascinating morsels … there is much here to interest any admirer of this remarkable and prolific composer' (The Penguin Guide to Compact Discs)

'Fascinating trouvailles' (Classic CD)

'As a guide to this cornucopia Leslie Howard could hardly be bettered' (BBC Music Magazine)

Liszt: The complete music for solo piano, Vol. 56 – Rarities & Curiosities

Leslie Howard (piano)

CD1	1	Orpheus 'Poème symphonique No 4', S511b [10'51] Franz Liszt (1811-1886)
		Orgel-Fantasie und Fuge in G-Moll, BWV542 S463i Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750) & Franz Liszt (1811-1886)
	2	Movement 1: Fantasy [5'53]
	3	Movement 2: Fugue [5'31]
	4	Mes joies, S480 No 5ii [4'57] Franz Liszt (1811-1886) & Frédéric Chopin (1810-1849)
	5	Widmung, Op 25 No 1 S566a [2'34] Robert Schumann (1810-1856), arr. Franz Liszt (1811-1886)
	6	Marche pour le Sultan Abdul Medjid-Khan, S403bis [6'23] Franz Liszt (1811-1886) & Gaetano Donizetti (1797-1848)
	7	Caritas 'nach Rossini', S552a [9'55] Franz Liszt (1811-1886) & Gioacchino Rossini (1792-1868)
	8	Il penseroso, S157b [4'07] Franz Liszt (1811-1886)
	9	Canzonetta del Salvator Rosa, S157c [2'20] Franz Liszt (1811-1886)
	10	En mémoire de Maximilian I 'Marche funèbre', S162d [5'54] Franz Liszt (1811-1886)
	11	Album-Leaf in A flat 'Portugal', S166b [1'04] Franz Liszt (1811-1886)
	12	Album-Leaf 'Première Consolation', S171b [0'40] Franz Liszt (1811-1886)
	13	Schnitterchor 'Pastorale – Schnitterchor' 'Prometheus', S507a [5'29] Franz Liszt (1811-1886)
	14	Künstlerfestzug, S520i [10'01] Franz Liszt (1811-1886)
CD2	1	Festklänge 'Poème symphonique No 7', S511d [19'53] Franz Liszt (1811-1886)
	2	La caritá, S552b [3'27] Franz Liszt (1811-1886) & Gioacchino Rossini (1792-1868)
	3	La serenata e l'orgia – Grande Fantaisie sur des motifs des Soirées musicales de Rossini 'Première grande fantaisie', S422i [11'07] Franz Liszt (1811-1886) & Gioacchino Rossini (1792-1868)
	4	Introduction des Variations sur une marche du Siège de Corinthe, S421a [4'09] Franz Liszt (1811-1886) & Gioacchino Rossini (1792-1868)
	5	Morceau en fa majeur, S695 [8'52] Franz Liszt (1811-1886)
	6	Fantasie über englische Themen, S694 [14'25] Franz Liszt (1811-1886), arr. Leslie Howard (b1948)
	7	Anfang einer Jugendsonate, S692b [0'36] Franz Liszt (1811-1886)
	8	Album-Leaf 'Andantino in E flat', S163a [1'22] Franz Liszt (1811-1886)
	9	Album-Leaf 'Ah, vous dirai-je, maman', S163b [0'22] Franz Liszt (1811-1886)
	10	Album-Leaf in C minor 'Pressburg', S163c [0'15] Franz Liszt (1811-1886)
	11	Album-Leaf in E major 'Vienna', S164a [0'31] Franz Liszt (1811-1886)
	12	Album-Leaf in E flat 'Leipzig', S164b [0'38] Franz Liszt (1811-1886)
	13	Album-Leaf 'Exeter Preludio', S164c [0'20] Franz Liszt (1811-1886)
	14	Album-Leaf in E major 'Detmold', S164d [0'34] Franz Liszt (1811-1886)
	15	Album-Leaf 'Magyar', S164e [0'27] Franz Liszt (1811-1886)
	16	Album-Leaf in A minor 'Rákóczi-Marsch', S164f [0'17] Franz Liszt (1811-1886)
	17	Album-Leaf in E major, S166a [0'29] Franz Liszt (1811-1886)
	18	Album-Leaf in A flat, S166c [1'04] Franz Liszt (1811-1886)
	19	Album-Leaf 'Lyon Prélude', S166d [0'05] Franz Liszt (1811-1886)
	20	Album-Leaf 'Prélude omnitonique', S166e [0'06] Franz Liszt (1811-1886)
	21	Album-Leaf in E major 'Leipzig', S163d [0'21] Franz Liszt (1811-1886)
	22	Album-Leaf 'Berlin Preludio', S164g [0'08] Franz Liszt (1811-1886)
	23	Album-Leaf 'Braunschweig Preludio', S166f [0'09] Franz Liszt (1811-1886)
	24	Album-Leaf 'Serenade', S166g [0'25] Franz Liszt (1811-1886)
	25	Album-Leaf 'Andante religioso', S166h [2'16] Franz Liszt (1811-1886)
	26	Mazurka in F minor, S221a [2'51] Franz Liszt (1811-1886)
CD3	1	Gaudeamus igitur – Paraphrase, S240ii [7'21] Franz Liszt (1811-1886)
	2	Rapsodie hongroise II, S244 No 2bis [10'24] Franz Liszt (1811-1886)
	3	Rapsodie hongroise X, S244 No 10bis [6'00] Franz Liszt (1811-1886)
	4	Rapsodie hongroise XV, S244 No 15bis [5'59] Franz Liszt (1811-1886)
	5	Magyar Rapszódia 'Rapsodie hongroise XVI', S244 No 16i [4'27] Franz Liszt (1811-1886)
	6	Rapsodie hongroise XVIII, S244 No 18i [3'09] Franz Liszt (1811-1886)
	7	Mephisto-Polka, S217i [4'08] Franz Liszt (1811-1886)
	8	Rapsodie hongroise XVIII, S244 No 18ii [3'20] Franz Liszt (1811-1886)
		Trois études de concert 'Trois caprices poétiques', S144 Franz Liszt (1811-1886)
	9	No 3bis: Un sospiro, two further cadenzas [0'29]
	10	Album-Leaf 'Agnus Dei of the Missa Solemnis', S167c [1'11] Franz Liszt (1811-1886)
	11	Album-Leaf 'Orpheus', S167d [1'30] Franz Liszt (1811-1886)
	12	Album-Leaf 'Die Ideale', S167e [1'07] Franz Liszt (1811-1886)
	13	St Stanislaus fragment, S688a [0'50] Franz Liszt (1811-1886)
	14	Winzerchor 'Prometheus', S692e [0'48] Franz Liszt (1811-1886)
	15	La Mandragore 'Ballade de l'opéra Jean de Nivelle', S698 [1'53] Franz Liszt (1811-1886)
	16	Glasgow fragment, S701f [1'27] Franz Liszt (1811-1886)
	17	Operatic aria and sketched variation, S701h No 1 [0'57] Franz Liszt (1811-1886)
	18	Valse infernale, S701h No 2 [0'12] Franz Liszt (1811-1886) & Giacomo Meyerbeer (1791-1864)
	19	Allegro maestoso 'Étude in F sharp major?', S692c [0'34] Franz Liszt (1811-1886)
	20	Rákóczi-Marsch, S692d [1'49] Franz Liszt (1811-1886)
	21	Harmonie nach Rossini's Carità, S701j [1'33] Franz Liszt (1811-1886) & Gioacchino Rossini (1792-1868)
	22	Marie-Poème, S701b [1'00] Franz Liszt (1811-1886)
	23	Andante sensibilissimo, S701c [0'30] Franz Liszt (1811-1886)
	24	Melodie in Dorische Tonart, S701d [0'59] Franz Liszt (1811-1886)
	25	Dante fragment, S701e [0'57] Franz Liszt (1811-1886)
	26	Polnisch, S701g [1'26] Franz Liszt (1811-1886)
	27	Korrekturblatt 'La lugubre gondola', S701k [0'54] Franz Liszt (1811-1886)
CD4	1	Mazeppa 'Poème symphonique No 6', S511c [17'40] Franz Liszt (1811-1886)
	2	Valse in A major, S210b [1'01] Franz Liszt (1811-1886)
	3	Ländler in D major, S211a [1'21] Franz Liszt (1811-1886)
	4	Dumka, S249b [1'57] Franz Liszt (1811-1886)
	5	Air cosaque, S249c [0'47] Franz Liszt (1811-1886)
	6	Marche funèbre, S226a [1'54] Franz Liszt (1811-1886)
	7	Magyar tempo, S241b [1'09] Franz Liszt (1811-1886)
	8	Pásztor Lakodalman 'Mélodies hongroises', S405a [7'56] Franz Liszt (1811-1886) & Count Leo Festetics (1800-1884)
	9	Einleitung und Coda zu Raffs Walzer in Des-Dur, Op 51 No 1, S551a [3'48] Franz Liszt (1811-1886) & Joseph Joachim Raff (1822-1882)
	10	Einleitung und Coda zu Runbinsteins Étude in C-dur 'sur des notes fausses', S554a [5'50] Franz Liszt (1811-1886) & Anton Rubinstein (1829-1894)
	11	Einleitung und Coda zu Smatanas Polka, S570a [5'30] Franz Liszt (1811-1886) & Bedrich Smetana (1824-1884)
	12	Einleitung und Schlußtakte zu Tausigs 3. Valse-Caprice, S571a [9'48] Franz Liszt (1811-1886) & Johann II Strauss (1825-1899)
	13	Dritter Mephisto-Walzer, S215a [5'54] Franz Liszt (1811-1886)
	14	Petite Valse 'Nachspiel zu den drei vergessenen Walzer', S695d [2'10] Franz Liszt (1811-1886) & Leslie Howard (b1948)
	15	Grande Valse di bravura 'Le bal de Berne', S209 [7'33] Franz Liszt (1811-1886)

This penultimate volume in Leslie Howard's unique survey of Liszt's complete music for solo piano contains much rare and fascinating material. There are 81 pieces altogether - far too many to list. We believe that over 70 of them have never been recorded before. As a foretaste of the next volume there are four Rhapsodies in alternate versions; there are transcriptions of three of his symphonic poems, and alternative versions and extracts from many works we have met previously in the series; and finally there are a large number of Album-Leaves, pieces Liszt wrote 'off the cuff' as gifts for friends and acquaintances. One of them, the Album Leaf: Lyon Prélude, is the shortest piece in the entire series of 95 CDs. (It is only five seconds long!)

An essential purchase for all those who have already bought the previous 55 volumes