This compilation of piano works by the supreme piano virtuoso of the 19th century includes such masterworks as Sonetto 104 di Petrarca, Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2 in C-sharp minor, Un Sospiro (Concert Etude No. 3 in D-flat major), Funérailles (from Années de pélerinage), Consolation No. 3 in D-Flat major, Liebestraum No. 3 in A-flat major, more. Content : Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2 in C-sharp Minor No. 2 from [19] Hungarian Rhapsodies • R106 / S244 Un Sospiro A Sigh: Concert Étude No. 3 in D-flat Major from Trois Études de Concert • R 5 / S144 Funérailles, Octobre 1849 Burials, October 1849: No. 7 from Harmonies Poétiques at Religieuses. Written to commemorate the executions of the Hungarian Prime Minister Lajos Batthyány and thirteen Hungarian generals on 6 Octover 1849, at the end of the Hungarian War of Independence • R14 / S173 Consolation No. 3 in D-flat Major From [6] Consolations. Title from Les Consolations by poet-novelist Charles-Augustin Sainte-Beuve • R12 / S172 Liebestraum No. 3 in A-flat Mojor Dream of Love: Transcription of the song O lieb, so lang du lieben kannst, peom by Ferdinand Freiligrath, from Liebesträume, 3 Notturnos • R211 / S141 La Campanella The Little Bell: Originally composed in 1832 around the rondo theme of Paganini's Violin Concerto No. 2 in B minor; published as Grande Fantaisie de Bravoure sur La Clochette de Paganini. Revised in 1838 as La Campanella (in A-flat minor), and published as No. 3 of six Études d' Exécution Transcendante d'après Paganini. Entire set revised in 1851 and published as Grandes Études de Paganini - the form in which this music is known today. La Campanella appears here in its final form, in G-sharp minor. • R3b / S141. Sonetto 104 del Petrarca Petrarch's Sonnet 104: Originally the song Pace non trovo, one of Liszt's three Petrarch settings for tenor and piano, published as Tre Sonetti di Petrarca. Transcribed for piano solo under the same title and published in 1846. The set, revised sometimes before 1858, was integrated into Années de Pèlerinage / Deuxième Année: Italie. The present version is No. 5 of that suite. • R10b / S161 Mephisto Waltz No. 1 Composed both for solo piano and for orchestra as The Dance in the Village Inn, the second of Two Episodes from Lenau's Faust (the other is The Ride by Night). The work draws its imagery from Nicholas Lenau's dramatic poem containing episodes omitted from Goethe's version of the Faust legend. Liszt's piano transcription, universally known as the Mephisto Waltz, was dedicated to Carl Tausig, the most famous of the first generation of Liszt's pupils. • R181 / S514 Waldersrauschen Gnomenreigen Two Concert Études: Forest Murmurs / Dance of the Gnomes • R6 / S145 Rákóczy March (Hungarian Rhapsody No. 15 in A Minor) Liszt's famous arrangement of Hungary's national call to arms, associated with Prince Ferenc Rákóczy II, who was the first leader of the fight for Hungarian independence against the Habsburgs. This is the second of three versions, based on themes from Liszt's sets of Hungarian national melodies (Magyar Dallok) and rhapsodies (Magyar Rhapsodiák), and from his symphonic arrangement for the march. • R106 / S244 Nuages Gris Gray Clouds: This work has been described as 'a gateway to modern music', acquiring in recent years the status of an icon among Liszt aficianados. With its advanced harmonies, and its unresolved ending that drifts away into keylessness, the piece fortells the coming of impressionism in music. The Gray Clouds were evidently autobiographical in origin. In early August 1881, Liszt suffered a fall down the stairs of the Hofgärtnerei, his occasional home in Weimar. His injuries were severe enough to keep him in bed for the next several weeks. The music depicts a world of quiet desolation. The manuscript bears the date 24 August 1881. • R78 / Valse Oubliée No. 1 Forgotten Waltz No. 1: the first of Quatre Valses Oubliées. • R37 / S215
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Composed in 1834, Liszt's Grand duo is based on material from three pieces from the first book (op. 19b) of Mendelssohn's Songs without Words (no. 1 in E major, no. 6 in G minor, and no. 3 in A major). While Liszt made an almost literal transcription of the first piece, he gave the second and third pieces a much freer arrangement, in the style of concert paraphrases. The large-scale concert piece was premiered by Liszt and Chopin on Christmas Day 1834 in a salon in Paris. The Grand duo was not published in Liszt's lifetime, and has survived as a draft.Schubert's Fantasy in C major (also known as the Wanderer Fantasy) was a defining musical experience for the young Liszt. He arranged this masterpiece of Romantic piano literature for piano and orchestra in 1851, at the beginning of his Weimar period, and it was premiered by Julius Egghard in Vienna in December of that year. By 1855, Liszt had transcribed this arrangement for two pianos, because it was played on 22 October 1855 at a concert held in Weimar in honour of his birthday. With the version for piano and orchestra, Liszt attuned the fantasy to the requirements of the concert hall, reinforcing the orchestral effects inherent in Schubert's composition. His aim with the two-piano version was to achieve a similarly grand effect in spaces too small for an orchestra. The arrangement for piano and orchestra appeared in print in 1857, followed by the two-piano version in 1862.This volume comes complete with a detailed preface in English, German, and Hungarian containing new research findings, several manuscript facsimiles, and a critical report in English.
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ISBN 9790080139615. UPC: 073999346435. Bach (23 x 30,2 cm) inches. Hungarian, English, German. Ferenc Liszt; Imre Sulyok; Imre Mezo.
The catalogues list under the title 'Resignazione' a short work for organ consisting merely of 29 bars. The investigation of sources carried out by the editors in connection with the New Complete Edition of Liszt's Works revealed that this is, in fact a work for piano the final version of which was worked out later. Liszt never published this manuscript and this late masterpiece has remained unknown for scholars as well. The present edition publishes the work for the first time. The publication includes the first version of the work too.
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English-German-Hungarian.
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ISBN 9790080129425. UPC: 073999169195. 9.0x12.0x0.284 inches. Hungarian, English, German, French. Ferenc Liszt; Imre Mezo.
Via Crucis is one of the most outstanding religious masterpieces from Liszt-s late creative period, and it depicts the story of the fourteen stations of Jesus' suffering. The work was not released during the composer-s lifetime due to its unusual and daring new sonorities. Based on his own dating, Liszt completed the composing process on February 26, 1879 in Budapest. The piece was originally written as fifteen short movements for solo vocalists, choir, and organ or harmonium, and its text was compiled by Liszt's partner, Carolyne von Sayn-Wittgenstein, using biblical excerpts, two medieval Latin hymns and two German Lutheran chorales.This volume, edited by Imre Mezo, contains German, English and Hungarian prefaces, as well as critical notes in English, which reveal valuable details about the history of the work.
