Composer: Ferencz Liszt
Performer: Can Çakmur
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: BIS
Release: 2020
Size: 1.20 GB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: yes
Schwanengesang – Vierzehn Lieder Von Franz Schubert, S560
01. No. 10, Liebesbotschaft
02. No. 14, Kriegers Ahnung
03. No. 8, Ihr Bild
04. No. 9, Frühlingssehnsucht
05. No. 5, Abschied
06. No. 6, In der Ferne
07. No. 7, Ständchen
08. No. 11, Der Atlas
09. No. 2, Das Fischermädchen
10. No. 4, Am Meer
11. No. 3, Aufenthalt
12. No. 1, Die Stadt
13. No. 12, Der Doppelgänger
14. No. 13, Die Taubenpost
Valses oubliees (4) S215 / R37
15. No. 1
16. No. 2
17. No. 3
18. No. 4
Franz Liszt’s arrangement of Schubert’s Schwanengesang is very much his own work: while it very clearly retains the musical meaning of the original it also provides a vision of Liszt’s understanding of what lies beyond the black dots on paper. In the young Turkish pianist Can Çakmur’s words, Liszt’s ‘songs without words’ are ‘striking, horrifying, grand, intimate, full of life and yet often as pale as death. The marvel of what a single instrument can attain plays an integral role in all these pieces.’ Published posthumously, Schwanengesang is a collection of songs that Schubert may have intended to be grouped together, but if so he never provided a definitive order. In his arrangement, Liszt adopted an order of his own, and Çakmur takes the same liberty, seeking ‘to arrive at a sequence which presents not a storyline but an emotional journey. The Liszt arrangement was first published in 1840, twelve years after Schubert’s death, and Çakmur contrasts it here with the much later ‘forgotten’ waltzes, Quatre Valses oubliées. As most of Liszt’s late music they are elusive, and Çakmur describes them as ‘possibly wistful, sardonic or melancholic – or perhaps all at once.’ Winner of the 2018 Hamamatsu International Piano Competition, Can Çakmur released his début disc in 2019, receiving praise for his technical prowess and sensibility alike – qualities that come well in hand for his new Liszt recital.