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Track(s) taken from CDA66874

Réminiscences de "Don Juan" de Mozart – Grande fantaisie, S418

composer
1841, 1877
composer
1787; Don Giovanni, K527

Marc-André Hamelin (piano)
Recording details: January 1996
Wigmore Hall, London, United Kingdom
Produced by Andrew Keener
Engineered by Tony Faulkner
Release date: January 1997
Total duration: 15 minutes 25 seconds
 

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Leslie Howard (piano)

Reviews

‘The virtuosity with which all this is despatched is exceptional’ (BBC Record Review)

‘There are few living pianists who can match him in dexterity, power and daring. For heart-thumping virtuosity Hamelin is in a class of his own’ (Classic CD)

‘These are musically and technically dazzling readings of some of the most demanding and poetic music ever written for the piano. They make me wonder if Liszt himself ever played them better! You rarely hear music-making of this calibre’ (Hi-Fi News)

«Peu parmi les plus grands seraient capable d'être aussi rigoristes tout en étant aussi virtuoses» (Répertoire, France)
Much has been written about the uncanny insight into Don Giovanni which Liszt shows by taking the seduction duet (with variations), the drinking song and the music of the statue of the dead commendatore and weaving a commentary upon the moral pith of the original. Even Bernard Shaw (who dismissed a masterpiece like the ‘Dante Symphony’) was obliged to rate the piece very highly, and indeed the Don has withstood the vicissitudes of public taste and has more or less remained in the repertoire. On this record the fullest possible version of the piece is presented, right down to a short cadenza in the first variation, which is to be found on a leaf in the Library of Congress but which was in fact published in the shorter two-piano version of the work, and actually postulated for inclusion in the solo version in the excellent critico-practical edition of Busoni.

from notes by Leslie Howard © 1990

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Liszt: Complete Piano Music
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Liszt: The complete music for solo piano, Vol. 6 - Liszt at the Opera I
CDA66371/22CDs
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