Louis Lortie - Liszt at the Opera '2013

Tracks list

Tracklist

01. Tannhäuser: Overture, S. 442
02. O du mein holder Abendstern, Rezitativ und Romanze aus der Oper
Tannhäuser, S. 444: Lento - Recitativ
03. O du mein holder Abendstern, Rezitativ und Romanze aus der Oper
Tannhäuser, S. 444: Romanze
04. Spinnerlied aus dem Fliegenden Holländer, S. 440
05. Valse de l’opéra Faust de Gounod, S. 407
06. Verdi - Rigoletto: Paraphrase de concert, S. 434
07. Reminiscences de Don Juan, S. 418: Grave -
08. Reminiscences de Don Juan, S. 418: Duetto -
09. Reminiscences de Don Juan, S. 418: Variation 1 -
10. Reminiscences de Don Juan, S. 418: Variation 2 -
11. Reminiscences de Don Juan, S. 418: Presto
12. Tristan und Isolde, Act I: Prelude (arr. L. Lortie for piano)
13. Wagner - Isoldes Liebestod from Tristan und Isolde, S. 447/R. 280



In this new release, the exclusive Chandos artist and award-winning pianist
Louis Lortie continues his exploration of piano works by Franz Liszt. His
previous Liszt releases have been critically acclaimed, Gramophone describing
his performance of the complete Années de Pèlerinage as
‘spellbinding’. Here Lortie turns his hand to the composer’s
opera transcriptions and paraphrases, works that revolutionised composition for
the piano with their unheralded technical innovation. The original works by
Liszt based on Mozart’s Don Giovanni, Verdi’s Rigoletto, and
Gounod’s Faust not only demonstrate the dazzling technical possibilities
of the piano but reveal the unique and fascinating musical imagination with
which Liszt transformed some of the best-known music in the operatic repertoire.
Completing the disc are several more or less straightforward transcriptions
based on operas by Richard Wagner who, despite a rocky start to their
relationship, forged a close musical bond with Liszt. Among them is the popular
transcription of the ‘Liebestod’ from Tristan und Isolde. Liszt
never completed a transcription of its natural musical companion, the Prelude to
the opera, so here Louis Lortie has recorded his own arrangement of it.

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