Liszt
Liszt gained renown in Europe during the early nineteenth century for his prodigious virtuosic skill as a pianist. He was a friend, musical promoter and benefactor to many composers of his time, including Frédéric Chopin, Richard Wagner, Hector Berlioz, Robert Schumann, Camille Saint-Saëns, Edvard Grieg, Ole Bull, Joachim Raff, Mikhail Glinka, and Alexander Borodin.
As a composer, Liszt was one of the most prominent representatives of the New German School (Neudeutsche Schule). He left behind an extensive and diverse body of work in which he influenced his forward-looking contemporaries and anticipated many 20th-century ideas and trends. Some of his most notable musical contributions were the invention of the symphonic poem, developing the concept of thematic transformation as part of his experiments in musical form, and making radical departures in harmony.
Liszt
Liszt gained renown in Europe during the early nineteenth century for his prodigious virtuosic skill as a pianist. He was a friend, musical promoter and benefactor to many composers of his tim...
Recorded 1953, 1954
Duration 57:57
LISZT Three Liebestraume
LISZT Rigoletto Paraphrase
LISZT Three Hungarian Rhapsodies
Recorded 1954
Duration 43:32
J S BACH Suite No. 2 for Flutes and Strings
J C BACH Sinfonia in B flat
BEETHOVEN Leonore Overtures 1 & 3, Coriolan Overture et al
WEBER Der Freischütz, Euryanthe, Oberon - Overtures
LISZT Les Préludes
music by Cheubini, Mendelssohn, Berlioz
Studio recordings, 1926-31
Total duration: 2hr 33:24
Concertgebouw Orchestra of Amsterdam
conducted by Willem Mengelberg
TCHAIKOVSKY Symphony No. 4 in F minor
TCHAIKOVSKY Symphony No. 5 in E minor
TCHAIKOVSKY Romeo and Juliet – Fantasy Overture
TCHAIKOVSKY Waltz from Serenade for Strings
J S BACH Suite No. 2 for Flutes and Strings
J C BACH Sinfonia in B flat
BEETHOVEN Leonore Overtures 1 & 3, Coriolan Overture et al
WEBER Der Freischütz, Euryanthe, Oberon - Overtures
LISZT Les Préludes
WAGNER Tannhäuser Overture - Lohengrin Prelude
BRAHMS Symphony No. 3 - Academic Festival Overture
GRIEG Two Elegiac Melodies
RAVEL Boléro
J STRAUSS II Perpetuum Mobile
music by Cheubini, Mendelssohn, Berlioz, Suppé, Bizet, Mahler, Tchaikovsky
Studio recordings, 1926-32
Concertgebouw Orchestra of Amsterdam
conducted by Willem Mengelberg
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LISZT A Faust Symphony
Recorded in 1935
Duration: 54:50
Grand Orchestre Philharmonique
Conductor: Selmar Meyrowitz
SAINT-SAËNS: Symphony No. 3, “Organ”
D’INDY: Symphony on a French Mountain Air
MOZART: Piano Concerto No. 21
MOZART: Symphony No. 35, “Haffner”
LISZT: Piano Concerto No. 2
CHABRIER: Bourée Fantasque
Studio and Live recordings, 1947/48
Total duration: 2hr 12:55
Robert Casadesus, piano
Édouard Nies-Berger, organ
Walter Hendl and Arthur Schuller, piano
Philharmonic-Symphony Orchestra of New York