Liszt: Three Piano Concertos; Totentanz

Liszt: Three Piano Concertos; Totentanz

Liszt: Three Piano Concertos; Totentanz
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Composer: Franz Liszt
Conductor: Paul Freeman
Orchestra: State Symphony Orchestra of Russia
Performer: Joshua Pierce (piano)
Edition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2005-12-06
Music Label: MSR Classics
Soundtracks:
  1. Allegro Maestro - Tempo Giusto
  2. Quasi Adagio - L'istesso Tempo
  3. Allegretto Vivace - Allegro Animato
  4. Allegro Marziale Animato - Piu Mosso - Alla Breve - Piu Mosso - Piu Presto - Presto
  5. Adagio Sostenuto Assai - Un Poco Piu Mosso - L'istesso Tempo - Allegro Agiato Assai - Un Poco Piu Mosso
  6. Tempo Del Andante / Cadenza - Allegro Moderato Piu Appassionato
  7. Allegro Deciso - L'istesso Tempo - Sempre Allegro - Marziale, Un Poco Meno Allegro Un Poco Animato - Un Poco Meno Mosso
  8. Allegro Animato - Stretto (Molto Accelerando)
  9. Andantino - Recitativo Del Pianoforte - A Tempo - Allegro - Tempo Primo
  10. Andante - Cadenza - A Tempo - Tempo Primo - Allegro Come Prima
  11. Allegro Vivace - Piu Mosso - Stretto
  12. Andante - Presto (Cadenza) - Allegro
  13. Allegro Moderato - Variation I (Allegro Moderato)
  14. Variation II
  15. Variation III (Molto Vivace)
  16. Variation IV (Canonique) - Lento - Andante - Presto
  17. Variation V (Fugato) - Vivace
  18. Cadenza (Presto)
  19. Sempre Allegro, Ma Non Troppo - Allegretto - Scherzando - Cadenza
  20. Presto - Allegro Animato

Description of Liszt: Three Piano Concertos; Totentanz

In a long creative lifetime of at least 65 years (he was a published composer by the age of 11), Franz Liszt wrote 15 or 16 works for piano and orchestra but only three real concertos; improbably enough, they are, along with the Totentanz, all dated 1849. Every aspiring virtuoso of the day was grinding out show-off concertos so it should not be surprising that the greatest virtuoso of the century (if not of all time) would have created concertos designed to exhibit his own artistry. But by 1849, Liszt had actually retired from concert life, settling down as kapellmeister in Weimar with his mistress, the Countess Carolyne von Sayn- Wittgenstein. Why then, did he suddenly turn up with four big works for piano and orchestra? Grammy nominated pianist, JOSHUA PIERCE, one of the most versatile virtuosi of our time, was born in New York City and studied at The Juilliard School, Manhattan School of Music, Cleveland Institute of Music and Columbia University; his principal teachers and mentors were Dorothy Taubman, Artur Balsam, Victor Babin, Arthur Loesser and Robert Goldsand. His extensive career includes performances in recital, as a soloist with chamber ensembles, including Russia's famed Leontovich String Quartet and Chamber Players International, Inc. He has been heard throughout the world in many of the most prestigious music centers and has performed as a soloist with an impressive array of major orchestras in the New World and the Old including the Royal Philharmonic, Philharmonia of London, Luxembourg Radio Symphony, Chicago Sinfonietta, Philharmonia Virtuosi of New York, Utah Symphony, Missouri Symphony, San Antonio Symphony, Mexico City Philharmonic, Orchestra Philharmonic of Jalisco, Berlin Radio Symphony, RAI Orchestra of Rome, Czech Radio Orchestra, Czech National Symphony, Slovak Philharmonic, Slovak State Chamber Orchestra Zelina, Moscow State Philharmonic, Russian State Symphony and the State Symphony of Russia at Tchaikovsky Hall, Moscow, where he made a highly successful debut in 1993 performing Liszt's Piano Concerto No.1 in E-flat major. His huge range and varied repertoire are unique among contemporary pianists ranging from the prepared piano works of John Cage to the masterpieces of the standard repertoire to rediscovered concerted masterpieces of the high romantic era. Mr. Pierce's many recordings on the Albany, Carlton Classics, Centaur, Fanfare, Helicon, Koch International, Mastersound, MNC, Phoenix, Premiere, Pro Arte, Sony Classics, Virgin Classics, Vox, Varese Sarabande, and Wergo labels, include familiar and lesser-known concerted works by Brahms, Casella, Chopin, Czerny, Gershwin, Hummel, Khachaturian, Liszt, Mendelssohn, Prokofiev, Reinecke, Rachmaninov, Respighi, Shostakovich, Richard Strauss, Tchaikovsky and Weber. Other composers performed and recorded by Mr. Pierce include Ives, Cowell, Harry Partch, Schoenberg, Stockhausen, Stravinsky, Toru Takemitsu and La Monte Young. It was the success of his recording of the Brahms B-flat Concerto with the Bohuslav Martinu Philharmonic under Kirk Trevor that led directly to live performances of the Franck and Liszt with the same forces and to the inclusion of all three works on this disc. Joshua Pierce's long identification with the music of Liszt includes recordings of the first three concertos, soon to be available on MSR. Joshua Pierce has also performed extensively for public radio and television in the United States and for PRI in many parts of Europe. A long list of contemporary and traditional music performances includes the Cage Musicircus Memorial Concert at Symphony Space in New York, Myra Hess Memorial Concert Series in Chicago, AFMM Microfest Concerts, Barbican Centre/London, 4th ISCM Europe-Asia 2000 Music Festival, Festival "Music of Friends"/Russian Composers Union Music Series/Moscow, Alternativa Music Festival 2000/Moscow, Bergen International Music Festival/Norway, ISCM Festivals in Seattle and Zurich, Switzerland, the Futurismo & Fut

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