Liszt: The Late Pieces

Liszt: The Late Pieces

Liszt: The Late Pieces
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Composer: Franz Liszt
Performer: Leslie Howard
Edition: Music CD
Format: Import
CD Release Date: 1993-11-18
Music Label: Hyperion UK
Soundtracks:
  1. The Late Pieces: Schlaflos! Frage und Antwort S203
  2. The Late Pieces: Trube Wolken (Nuages Gris), S199
  3. The Late Pieces: Recueillement, S204
  4. The Late Pieces: Toccata, S197a
  5. The Late Pieces: Resignazione, S187a
  6. The Late Pieces: Wiegenlied (Chant du Berceau), S198
  7. The Late Pieces: Unstern! -- Sinstre, S208
  8. The Late Pieces: Carrousel de Madame P-N., S214a
  9. The Late Pieces: Sospiri! (Funf Klavierstucke No 5), S 192- 5
  10. The Late Pieces: Schlaflos! [alternative version], S203
  11. The Late Pieces: Klavierstuck in F Sharp Major, S193
  12. The Late Pieces: Klavierstuck In E Major S192-1
  13. The Late Pieces: Klavierstuck In A Flat Major S192-2
  14. The Late Pieces: En Reve -- Nocturne, S207
  15. The Late Pieces: Klavierstucke In F Sharp Major S192-3
  16. The Late Pieces: Romance Oubliee S527
  17. The Late Pieces: Klavierstucke In F Sharp Major S192-4
  18. The Late Pieces: Die Trauergondel (La Lugubre Gondola)--I, S200-1
  19. The Late Pieces: Die Trauergondel (La Lugubre Gondola)--II S200-2
  20. The Late Pieces: RW--Venezia, S201
  21. The Late Pieces: Am Grabe Richard Wagners S202
  22. The Late Pieces: Abschied--Russisches Volkslied S251
  23. The Late Pieces: (Slyepoi) (Der Blinde Sanger) S542a
  24. The Late Pieces: Ungarns Gott, S543
  25. The Late Pieces: Ungarisches Konigslied S544
  26. The Late Pieces: Epithalam--Zu Eduard Remenyis Vermahlungsfeier S526
  27. The Late Pieces: Mosonyis Grabgeleit S194
  28. The Late Pieces: Dem Andenken Petofis S195
  29. The Late Pieces: Trauervorspiel, Und ...
  30. The Late Pieces: Trauermarsch, S206

Music reviews of Liszt: The Late Pieces

Music Review: A very good recording of minor, though interesting, works
Rating: 4 Stars

Another interesting recording in Howard's traversal of Liszt's entire output.

These are minor works to be sure - most are from one to three minutes in length, but for the most part are beautiful miniatures. As another reviewer has pointed out, listening to them one hears harmonic patterns that would not return to vogue before the end of the nineteenth century or beginning of the twentieth (ie, Unstern, brief, though startling in its intensity). Still distinctly Lisztian in character though - one hears distant memories of Liszt's Sonata in Venezia for example - these are among the final musical thoughts of a master of the keyboard. As the accompanying booklet says with only slight hyperbole: "This is an altogether astounding body of work from an indefatigable imagination......" The booklet goes on to compare the work to Beethoven's Late String Quartets and Bach's Art of Fugue, which is a big stretch I think. But there is a touch of genius here - Liszt is obviously less focussed on past acclaim, and is looking, and theorizing, on where music might be headed.

And for the most part, his prognostication is pretty much on the mark. This is music that is dissonant yet lyrical, harsh yet beautifully enigmatic,

The more of these discs I listen to the more intrigued I become about Liszt. Few of his works are masterpieces - many are sheer virtuosic bombast. But these miniatures are at the least, charming, and at their best - as another has said - elegiac. The comparison may be absurd to some, but I can't help but think that Liszt's closest contemporary is the great pianist Keith Jarrett, who own music is virtuosic yet somewhat vapid, with hints of profundity.

Quite mesmerizing and well worth a listen, Hyperion's sonics are first rate, as always.
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