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Track(s) taken from APR5614

En rêve – Nocturne, S207

composer
1885

Louis Kentner (piano)
Recording details: July 1939
Abbey Road Studios, London, United Kingdom
Release date: May 2009
Total duration: 2 minutes 20 seconds
 

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Reviews

'Excellently transferred from 78s dating from 1939-59, this selection ranges from Liszt’s early exuberance to the grim-faced austerity of his final years, and throughout you will hear playing of a peerless scintillation, patrician command and a poetic engagement known to few pianists' (Gramophone)

'Kentner, a 'great-grandpupil' of the composer, offers Liszt that is aristocratic and technically exquisite—La leggierezza and La campanella as light as sound itself. Colour and sonority are magically imagined' (BBC Music Magazine)

En rêve (‘Dreaming’) is another nocturne—but how different in scope and character to Schlaflos!—and was composed in 1885. A beautifully sculpted melody over a broken chord accompaniment puts one in mind, initially, of Chopin. There is in this little gem, unlike in many of the works from the last years of Liszt’s life, nothing disillusioned or bleak, but rather a note of acceptance and reconciliation.

from notes by Jeremy Nicholas © 2019

En rêve est un autre nocturne—mais d’une portée et d’un caractère très différents de Schlaflos!. Liszt le composa en 1885. Une mélodie merveilleusement sculptée sur un accompagnement en accords brisés fait d’abord penser à Chopin. Contrairement à de nombreuses œuvres des dernières années de la vie de Liszt, il n’y a ici rien de désabusé ou de sinistre dans ce petit joyau, mais plutôt une note d’acceptation et de réconciliation.

extrait des notes rédigées par Jeremy Nicholas © 2019
Français: Marie-Stella Pâris

Ein weiteres Nocturne ist En rêve („Im Traum“) von 1885—doch wie anders in Umfang und Charakter! Bei der wohlgeformten, von gebrochenen Akkorden begleiteten Melodie denkt man zunächst an Chopin. Anders als so viele Stücke aus Liszts Spätwerk erzählt diese kleine Kostbarkeit nicht von Desillusionierung oder Trostlosigkeit, sondern von Bejahung und Versöhnung.

aus dem Begleittext von Jeremy Nicholas © 2019
Deutsch: Friedrich Sprondel

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