CDS44501/98 - Disc 21 Track 1 - Scherzo und Marsch, S177 - Hyperion Records

Scherzo und Marsch, S177

composer

Franz Liszt (1811-1886)

1851/4

Recordings

Liszt: Nikolai Demidenko plays Liszt

Nikolai Demidenko (piano)

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Liszt: Complete Piano Music

Leslie Howard (piano)

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Liszt: The complete music for solo piano, Vol. 28 – Dances and Marches

Leslie Howard (piano)

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Leslie Howard (piano)

Track 1 on CDA66811/2 CD1 [12'15] 2CDs

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Part 1: Allegro vivace, spiritoso

Nikolai Demidenko (piano)

Track 25 on CDH55184 [6'49] Helios (Hyperion's budget label)

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Part 2: Allegro moderato, marziale

Nikolai Demidenko (piano)

Track 26 on CDH55184 [4'01] Helios (Hyperion's budget label)

Part 3: Allegro vivace, spiritoso

Nikolai Demidenko (piano)

Track 27 on CDH55184 [1'23] Helios (Hyperion's budget label)

Part 4: Stretta

Nikolai Demidenko (piano)

Track 28 on CDH55184 [0'16] Helios (Hyperion's budget label)

Part 5: Molto più animato, quasi Presto

Nikolai Demidenko (piano)

Track 29 on CDH55184 [1'35] Helios (Hyperion's budget label)

Scherzo und Marsch, S177

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The Scherzo und Marsch is a work apart from the others: one of Liszt’s larger structures, it exploits the combination of two movements into one which is familiar from the and which reached its apogee with the Sonata. But the musical language of the Scherzo—in a very brisk 38, with its many barbed appoggiaturas—is a direct precursor of the Mephisto music: the Mephistopheles movement of the Faust Symphony (right down to the uncompromising fugal development) and the Mephisto Waltzes and Polka. The March, which is at once a new movement and a kind of trio section to the Scherzo, begins as a ghostly affair which presages the young Mahler and is denied its triumph by the shortened return of the Scherzo, only to reappear in diabolical glory at the furious coda. The neglect of this minor masterpiece is due to its severe technical demands; Liszt himself lamented that neither Kullak nor Tausig could bring the piece off in performance, and that only Blow had mastered it. (Typically, he never played it himself.) According to the Neue Liszt-Ausgabe the original incomplete draft of the work dates from 1851 and is subtitled Wilde Jagd (‘Wild Hunt’). The hunting title is not really appropriate to the character of the work, however, and Liszt put it to much better use in the eighth of the Transcendental Études. The work was finally published in the present form in 1854.

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Details for CDS44501/98 disc 21 track 1

Artists

Leslie Howard (piano)

ISRC

GB-AJY-94-81101

Duration

12'15

Recording date

30 April 1993

Recording venue

St Martin's Church, East Woodhay, Berkshire, United Kingdom

Recording producer

Tryggvi Tryggvason

Recording engineer

Tryggvi Tryggvason

Hyperion usage

Liszt: The complete music for solo piano, Vol. 28 – Dances and Marches (CDA66811/2)
Disc 1 Track 1
Release date: July 1994
2CDs
Liszt: Complete Piano Music (CDS44501/98)
Disc 21 Track 1
Release date: February 2011
99CDs Boxed set + book (at a special price)