Format : CD Boxset
[Coffret, CD, Edition Limitée, Import]. Evènement phare de nos commémorations du bicentenaire Liszt, ce coffret de 34 CD en édition limitée l'emportera de loin sur toutes les grandes éditions économiques dédiées au compositeur, par son contenu, son choix d'artistes et d'interprétations, son packaging et son prix. Un élégant cube avec couvercle donne un accès facile aux 34 CD, classés en six genres musicaux, couvrants la vaste étendue de l'oeuvre de Liszt comme nul autre coffret sur le marché. 2 CD sont dédiés aux oeuvres pour piano et orchestre ; 7 CD aux oeuvres pour orchestre ; 12 CD aux oeuvres pour piano seul ; 2 CD aux oeuvres pour orgue ; 5 CD aux lieder ; 6 CD aux oeuvres chorales sacrées. Parmi les oeuvres chorales sacrées en particulier figurent des raretés que seuls Deutsche Grammophon et Decca peuvent offrir. Le coffret puise dans les plus légendaires enregistrements des deux labels prestigieux et liste les plus grands interprètes lisztiens : Parmi les pianistes, Krystian Zimerman (Concertos et Sonate en si mineur), Daniel Barenboim (transcriptions d'opéras de Wagner), Claudio Arrau (transcriptions d'opéras de Verdi), Nikita Magaloff (Etudes de Paganini), Wilhelm Kempff, Robert Szidon (Rhapsodies Hongroises), Lazar Berman (les mythiques Années de pèlerinage), Jorge Bolet (Etudes de Concert, transcriptions de Schubert). Quant aux chefs d'orchestre, Giuseppe Sinopoli, Bernard Haitink, Sir Georg Solti et Iván Fischer maintiennent le plus haut niveau. Parmi les chanteurs figurent Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, dans ses enregistrements légendaires avec Daniel Barenboim, ainsi que Hildegard Behrens et Brigitte Fassbaender.
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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.
