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Track(s) taken from CDA66346

Ouverture des Francs-Juges de Hector Berlioz, S471

composer
Franz Liszt (1811-1886)
1833
composer
Hector Berlioz (1803-1869)
1826; Les Francs-Juges, Op 3

Leslie Howard (piano)
Recording details: January 1989
St Peter's Church, Petersham, United Kingdom
Produced by Martin Compton
Engineered by Tryggvi Tryggvason
Release date: February 1990
Total duration: 13 minutes 4 seconds

Cover artwork: King Lear weeping over the dead body of Cordelia (1788). James Barry (1741-1806)
 

Reviews

‘I can wholly recommend this release to lovers of Liszt since it presents much music that is otherwise unavailable’ (Gramophone)
Berlioz rescued the overture from his unfinished opera Les Francs-Juges and issued it separately. Liszt’s piano version does its best not to omit any detail from the original and, in the two passages where changes have to be made, conjures up such an effect as to make us forget the alteration.

from notes by Leslie Howard © 1989

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