Release Date: 10 January 2000
Label: Naxos / Naxos Classics
Packaging Type: Jewel Case
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 636943483923
Genres: Classical
Composer/Series: LISZT
Description
Franz Liszt(1811-1886)Complete Piano Music,Volume 16Capriccio alIa TurcaPiano Transcriptionsof Beethoven's Songs\From the thoughtful performance of Adelaide, incidentally, many singerscould learn how this song should be sung. How little, how negligible the poorpiano is compared to the sound of a human voice, and yet what music theseartistic hands knew how to elicit from the instrument!-Heinrich Adami, Allgemeine Theaterzeitung (7th April 1846)Franz Liszt as a performer combined a degree of showmanship withremarkable gifts of interpretation, as contemporary comments on his playingmake clear. It is all the more surprising to find that he retired from paidpublic performance relatively early in his long career.Born in 1811, the son of Adam Liszt, a steward in the service of Haydn'sformer patrons, the Esterhazy Princes, Franz Liszt had early encouragement fromhis father's employers and other members of the Hungarian nobility, allowinghim in 1822 to move from his birth-place of Raiding to Vienna, for lessons withCzerny and a famous meeting with Beethoven, and from Vienna to Paris. ThereCherubini refused him admission to the Conservatoire, but he was able toimpress audiences by his performance, now supported by the Erard family, pianomanufacturers whose wares he was able to advertise in the concert tours onwhich he embarked. In 1827 Adam Liszt died, and he was now joined again by hismother in Paris, while using his time to teach, to read and benefit from theintellectual society with which he came into contact. His interest in virtuosoperformance was renewed when he heard the great violinist Paganini, whosetechnical accomplishments he now set out to emulate.The years that followed brought a series of compositions, includingtranscriptions of songs and operatic fantasies, part of the stock-in-trade of avirtuoso. His relationship with a married woman, the Comtesse Marie d'Agoult,led to Liszt's departure from Paris for years of travel abroad, first toSwitzerland, then back to Paris, before leaving for Italy, Vienna and Hungary.By 1844 his relationship with his mistress, the mother of his three children,was at an end, but his concert activities continued until 1847, the year inwhich his relationship began with Carolyne zu Sayn-Wittgenstein, a Polishheiress, the estranged wife of a Russian prince. The following year he settledwith her in Weimar, the city of Goethe, turning his attention now to thedevelopment of a newer form of orchestral music, the symphonic poem, and, asalways, to the revision and publication of earlier compositions.It was in 1861, at the age of fifty, that Liszt moved to Rome, followingPrincess Carolyne, who had settled there a year earlier. Divorce and annulmentseemed to have opened the way to their marriage, but they now continued to livein separate apartments in the city. Liszt eventually took minor orders anddeveloped a pattern of life that divided his time between Weimar, where heimparted advice to a younger generation, Rome, where he w
Tracklisting
Dariia Lytvishko
Baltimore Symphony Orchestra; Marin Alsop
Alice Di Piazza; Basel Sinfonietta; NDR Bigband; Titus Engel
Anna Alas i Jove; Miquel Villalba
David Childs; Black Dyke Band; Nicholas Childs
Various
Various
Lully
