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Track(s) taken from CDA66445

Wiegenlied – Chant du berceau, S198

composer
1881

Leslie Howard (piano)
Recording details: June 1990
Unknown, Unknown
Produced by Tryggvi Tryggvason
Engineered by Tryggvi Tryggvason
Release date: June 1991
Total duration: 2 minutes 36 seconds

Cover artwork: Villa am Meer II (1865). Arnold Böcklin (1827-1901)
Bayer Staatsgemäldesammlungen, Schackgalerie, Munich
 

Other recordings available for download

Cédric Tiberghien (piano)
Lucille Chung (piano)

Reviews

‘This, at last, is the comprehensive collection of late Liszt for which we've waited’ (Fanfare, USA)

‘Howard's performances are quite marvellous: scrupulously prepared and enlightened by this performer's high degree of spontaneity. Hyperion's recording captures every nuance’ (CDReview)
Wiegenlied (‘Cradle Song’) turns up in several places: for the unlikely combination of four violins (entitled Die Wiege), as the opening section of the last symphonic poem From the Cradle to the Grave, and as this delicate piano work composed for Liszt’s pupil and secretary Arthur Friedheim.

from notes by Leslie Howard © 1991

Wiegenlied («Chant du berceau») se retrouve à plusieurs endroits: pour la combinaison inhabituelle de quatre violons (intitulée Die Wiege), en ouverture du dernier poème symphonique Du berceau à la tombe, et cette délicate pièce pour piano composée pour Arthur Friedheim, élève et secrétaire de Liszt.

extrait des notes rédigées par Leslie Howard © 1991
Français: Elisabeth Rhodes

Das Wiegenlied taucht mehrfach auf: in der ungewöhnlichen Kombination aus vier Violinen (unter dem Titel Die Wiege), als Eröffnung der letzten sinfonischen Dichtung Von der Wiege bis zum Grabe und in Gestalt dieses feinfühligen Klavierwerks, das für Liszts Schüler und Sekretär Arthur Friedheim komponiert wurde.

aus dem Begleittext von Leslie Howard © 1991
Deutsch: Anne Steeb/Bernd Müller

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