Bénédiction et Serment – Deux motifs de Benvenuto Cellini de Berlioz, S396 (Liszt/Berlioz) - from CDA66371/2 - Hyperion Records

Faust and Mephistopheles by Ferdinand-Victor-Eugène Delacroix (1798-1863)
Reproduced by permission of The Wallace Collection, London

Track(s) taken from CDA66371/2

Berlioz made a new version of Benvenuto Cellini for Liszt to produce in Weimar, and Liszt sought to improve the popularity of the work by immediately issuing the present transcription—of the Pope’s Blessing and of Cellini’s Oath—for piano and for piano duet. This remains another of those operas whose rarity is inexplicable.

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Recording details: December 1989
Unknown, Unknown
Produced by Martin Compton
Engineered by Tryggvi Tryggvason
Release date: July 1990
Total duration: 6 minutes 15 seconds

Bénédiction et Serment – Deux motifs de Benvenuto Cellini de Berlioz, S396

composer

Franz Liszt (1811-1886)

1852

composer

Hector Berlioz (1803-1869)

1834/7, revised 1852; Benvenuto Cellini

Leslie Howard (piano)