Composer: Ferencz Liszt
Performer: Saskia Giorgini
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Pentatone
Catalogue: PTC5186296
Release: 2021
Size: 1.20 GB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: yes
Harmonies poétiques et religieuses, S. 173
01. No. 1, Invocation
02. No. 2, Ave Maria
03. No. 3, Bénédiction de Dieu dans la solitude
04. No. 4, Pensée des morts
05. No. 5, Pater Noster
06. No. 6, Hymne de l’enfant à son réveil
07. No. 7, Funérailles
08. No. 8, Miserere, d’après Palestrina
09. No. 9, Andante lagrimoso
10. No. 10, Cantique d’amour
Introspective music of ravishing beauty. After two song albums together with Ian Bostridge, pianist Saskia Giorgini presents Franz Liszt’s Harmonies poétiques et religieuses. Liszt is often seen as a showman, but much of his music reveals his introspective, searching nature. This is demonstrated above all in Harmonies poétiques et religieuses, one of his most ambitious, contemplative and enigmatic compositions, inspired by Lamartine’s eponymous poetry, Liszt’s Roman Catholic faith as well as the 1848-1849 revolutions. To Giorgini, “this music is deeply humane and sincere, tender, but also full of the most sorrowful, violent, painful moments that Liszt ever put into music”. Its ten movements constitute a quest for the deeper meaning of human existence, clothed in music of ravishing beauty.
Saskia Giorgini is one of the most promising pianists of her generation, who has won several competitions and is hailed for her technical command and the beauty and poetry of her sound.