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Track(s) taken from CDA66445

Abschied – Russisches Volkslied, S251

composer
1885

Leslie Howard (piano)
Recording details: June 1990
Unknown, Unknown
Produced by Tryggvi Tryggvason
Engineered by Tryggvi Tryggvason
Release date: June 1991
Total duration: 1 minutes 56 seconds

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

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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)
Somewhat apart from other pieces are the gentle setting of a Russian folksong, ‘Farewell’ (no doubt supplied to Liszt by the dedicatee, his pupil Aleksandr Ziloti) and the piano piece derived from one of Liszt’s recitations for speaker and piano, The Blind Singer, based on a poem by Alexey Tolstoy and much tightened up in the process of eliminating the text (thirty verses of it)—a ballad of hunting Boyars and the counsels of a blind poet’s song.

from notes by Leslie Howard © 1991

Un peu à part d'autres pièces on trouve le léger arrangement d’un air populaire russe, «Adieu» (sans doute fourni à Liszt par le dédicataire, son élève Alexandre Ziloti), et la pièce pour piano tirée de l’une des récitations de Liszt pour orateur et piano, Le chanteur aveugle, basée sur un poème d’Alexis Tolstoï et très resserrée par l’élimination du texte (trente vers en tout)—une ballade de boyards à la chasse, et les conseils de chant d’un poète aveugle.

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

Irgendwie abgehoben von den übrigen Stücken sind die sanfte Neuvertonung eines russischen Volksliedes mit dem Titel Abschied (das Liszt zweifellos vom Adressaten der Widmung, seinem Schüler Alexander Ziloti, überlassen wurde) und das Klavierstück, das aus einem von Liszts Rezitativen für Sprecher und Klavier hervorgegangen ist, nämlich Der blinde Sänger nach einem Gedicht von Alexei Tolstoi, und durch die Elimination des (insgesamt 30 Strophen umfassenden) Textes—einer Ballade von jagenden Bojaren und den Sangesleistungen eines blinden Poeten—stark verdichtet wurde.

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

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