Composer: Ferencz Liszt
Performer: Beatrice Berrut
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Aparté
Catalogue: AP137
Release: 2017
Size: 200 MB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: yes
Années de pèlerinage II, S. 161
01. VII. Après une lecture du Dante. Fantasia quasi Sonata
02. Ballade No. 1 in D flat major S170 (‘Le chant du croisé’)
03. Ballade No. 2 in B minor, S171 / R16
Années de pèlerinage I, S. 160
04. VI. Vallée d’Obermann
Consolations, Six Pensées poétiques, S. 172
05. I. Andante con mot
06. II. Un poco più mosso
07. III. Lento placido
08. IV. Quasi adagio
09. V. Andantino
10. VI. Allegreto sempre cantabile
In his life as in his work, Liszt’s music represents a stylised struggle between good and evil; light and darkness. His writing, which may at times be described as Manichean, nevertheless explores all the pains and joys that a human soul can experience and creates an unbreakable thread between feelings that are very remote from each other.
Liszt’s metanoia: his courageous path towards light and serenity, provides a touching and liberating example of a man who assumed his consuming passions and sublimated them in the works he created. An intimate lecture of Liszt’s soul by Swiss pianist Béatrice Berrut, recorded in Paris by Nicolas Bartholomée on a Bösendorfer piano in April 2016.