CDA66433 - Disc 1 Track 12 - Un portrait en musique de la Marquise de Blocqueville, S190

Un portrait en musique de la Marquise de Blocqueville, S190

composer

1869

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Liszt: Complete Piano Music
Leslie Howard (piano)

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Leslie Howard (piano)

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Part 1: Tempo rubato (Herz)

Leslie Howard (piano)

Track 10 on CDA66433 [0'33]

Track 10 on CDS44501/98 CD51 [0'33] 99CDs Boxed set + book (at a special price)

Part 2: Lento e religioso (Planté)

Leslie Howard (piano)

Track 11 on CDA66433 [1'00]

Track 11 on CDS44501/98 CD51 [1'00] 99CDs Boxed set + book (at a special price)

Part 3: Même mouvement mais avec incertitude

Leslie Howard (piano)

Track 12 on CDA66433 [1'36]

Track 12 on CDS44501/98 CD51 [1'36] 99CDs Boxed set + book (at a special price)

Un portrait en musique de la Marquise de Blocqueville, S190

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Putting aside Louise Bertin’s opera Esmeralda, for which Liszt prepared the piano-vocal score and Berlioz the orchestral score [why?!] the sweet little trifle in honour of the Marquise de Blocqueville is the only other shared work involving Liszt. Extracting the gist of the story from Francis Planté’s fulsome account to the Maison Durand, who issued the work in 1927 (it had previously appeared in the magazine Figaro in 1886): Herz had been teaching the piano to the young and inattentive lady, and felt compelled to show his reaction to her dilatory behaviour by writing a short, indecisive, album-leaf as her musical portrait. This she showed to Planté, years later. He responded with a piece of his own, indicating the sound of the local church bell and depicting the older woman’s mature and pious state of mind. The Marquise sent both pieces immediately to Liszt, with a request for a third portrait, and Liszt responded with a wayward connecting passage to a variant of Herz’s theme and a rich extension of Planté’s theme, which Planté himself seems to have enriched with a few bass octave doublings of his own.

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Details for CDA66433 track 12

Même mouvement mais avec incertitude

Artists

Leslie Howard (piano)

ISRC

GB-AJY-91-43312

Duration

1'36

Recording date

24 April 1990

Recording venue

Kimpton Parish Church, Hertfordshire, United Kingdom

Recording producer

Tryggvi Tryggvason

Recording engineer

Tryggvi Tryggvason

Hyperion usage

Liszt: The complete music for solo piano, Vol. 10 – Hexaméron & Symphonie fantastique (CDA66433)
Disc 1 Track 12
Release date: April 1991
Liszt: Complete Piano Music (CDS44501/98)
Disc 51 Track 12
Release date: February 2011
99CDs Boxed set + book (at a special price)

Hyperion Records