Composer: Franz Liszt
Performer: Angela Hewitt
Audio CD
Number of Discs: 1
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Hyperion
Release: 2015
Size: 579 MB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: yes
Piano Sonata in B minor, S178
01. I. Lento assai
02. II. Andante sostenuto
03. III. Allegro energico
04. IV. Allegro energico
05. IV. Andante sostenuto
Sonetto 47 del Petrarca (No 4 of Années de pèlerinage, deuxième année – Italie, S161)
06. Sonetto 47 del Petrarca
Sonetto 104 del Petrarca (No 5 of Années de pèlerinage, deuxième année – Italie, S161)
07. Sonetto 104 del Petrarca
Sonetto 123 del Petrarca (No 6 of Années de pèlerinage, deuxième année – Italie, S161)
08. Sonetto 123 del Petrarca
Après une lecture du Dante ‘Fantasia quasi Sonata’ (No 7 of Années de pèlerinage, deuxième année – Italie, S161)
09. Après une lecture du Dante ‘Fantasia quasi Sonata’
Recorded: 19-22 May 2014 at Jesus-Christus-Kirche, Berlin, Germany
Angela Hewitt’s notes for this important new album describe a teenager’s moment of revelation when she first came to appreciate the epic masterpiece that is the Liszt Piano Sonata. Here we have a heart-felt recording where this palpable sense of wonder is manifest alongside Hewitt’s enthralling technical facility at the keyboard.
The programme is completed by the second half of Liszt’s dazzling second Année de pèlerinage collection: the three Petrarch Sonnets and the noble Dante Sonata, the latter composed as a fund-raiser for the Bonn Beethoven monument in 1839.