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Liszt - (Complete) Piano Music, Vol 26

 
Liszt - (Complete) Piano Music, Vol 26   Artist: Franz Liszt
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Product Details
Binding: Audio CD
EAN: 0747313051670
Label: Naxos
Manufacturer: Naxos
Number Of Discs: 1
Publisher: Naxos
Release Date: 2007-10-01
Running Time: 60
Studio: Naxos
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Average rating of 4/5Average rating of 4/5Average rating of 4/5Average rating of 4/5Average rating of 4/5 Mostly excellent but one minor quibble, 2008-05-16
Comment: This disc contains what I believe to be the first recording of the two piano arrangement of the Dante Symphony with the choral finale (the Magnificat) sung by a children's choir with treble soloist. I'm not overly familiar with this work in its original guise but, comparing my orchestral recording with this two piano version, it does not suffer in comparison! The power of the opening Allegro is well re-created by the two pianos belonging to The Franz Liszt piano duo, Francesco Nicolosi and Vittorio Bresciani (the latter was involved in one of the two extant recordings of the two piano version of the Faust symphony that I know of, recorded on Nuovo Era, 7284 - another excellent CD which I also wholeheartedly recommend). I found the work utterly compelling and the Magnificat ending is suitably ethereal and very nicely sung by the Hungarian Radio Children's Choir with Gabriella Thész as the chorus master and the treble soloist Barbara Szmodies. Some of the passages are lovely and are beautifully sung and are well supported by the pianists. I can't see any reason why this remarkable work is not better known and, certainly in this arrangement, it deserves a wider audience.

In all, I warmly recommend this disc not only because it appears to be the first recording of this work but also because it is an excellent recording in all respects. Also, I assume that if Naxos sells enough copies, it may persuade them to record the remainder of Liszt's two piano music as well as part of this series. My one minor quibble is with the filler - an arrangement of the Dante Sonata by Vittorio Bresciani which, although very well played and adding some interesting counterpoint to the themes within the piece, strikes me as not really necessary as the piece works well enough in its original (solo piano) version. The seventeen odd minutes that this takes up on the disc could easily have been filled with one (or more) of Liszt's other works for two pianos as there is still much of his work for this instrumentation left to be recorded.