Liszt: The Great Piano Works

Dresdner Philharmonie, Plasson, Michel

95564

Artists:
Vincenzo Maltempo, Enrico Pace, Philipp Kopachevsky, Mariangela Vacatello, Goran Filipec, Jean Dube, Alexander Gavrylyuk, Klara Würtz, Misha Dacic, Irene Russo, Vanessa Benelli Mosell, Francois Dumont, Mark Viner, Michele Campanella, Nelson Freire

Franz Liszt is universally celebrated as one of the greatest-ever virtuoso performers on the modern piano. Contemporary accounts describe his seemingly superhuman technical abilities and equally striking charisma and stage presence. Yet Liszt was a formidable composer, and his expansion of pianistic possibilities was achieved as much through innovation in his own great piano works as through his astonishing performance on the instrument, if not more. Like many child virtuosos thrust early into busy concert careers (Liszt’s began at the age of nine) he retired early, weary of the spotlight, turning his back on the stage at the remarkably early age of 35. Since he lived to the likewise remarkable old age of 75, much more than the latter half of his life was devoted solely to composition, and having been a pianist of his calibre, the works he created for his own instrument were indeed groundbreaking.

CD x 15

Brilliant Classics

11/13/19

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