Composer: Franz Liszt
Performer: Jared Schwartz, Mary Dibbern
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Toccata
Catalogue: TOCC0441
Release: 2017
Size: 233 MB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: yes
01. Weimars Volkslied, S313/R597
3 Sonetti di Petrarca, S. 270b
02. No. 2. Pace non trovo (Sonnet No. 104)
03. Des Tages laute Stimmen schweigen, S337/R633
04. J’ai perdu ma force et ma vie, S327, “Tristesse”
05. Jeanne d’Arc au bûcher, S373/R646
06. Sei still (Ach, was ist Leben), S330/R624
07. Le juif errant, S300/R585
08. Über allen Gipfeln ist Ruh, S306/1/R610a
O lieb so lang du lieben kannst, S. 298 No. 1
09. Liebestraume: No. 3. O lieb, so lang du lieben kannst, S298/R589
10. Du bist wie eine Blume (Thou art like a flower), S287/R607
11. Go not, happy day, S335/R626
12. Weimars Toten, S303/R584
Throughout Liszt’s long career, his songs – perhaps the most neglected part of his enormous output – took a radical approach to form, eschewing convention in search of a sincere musical response to each text. His free-spirited creativity meant that a single song would often call on a range of stylistic devices, among them bel canto vocal lines, unaccompanied recitative, orchestrally conceived piano textures and audacious harmonic procedures. This first recording of Liszt songs by a bass voice brings out both the power and poetry of his remarkable imagination.