Composer: Ferencz Liszt
Performer: Staatskapelle Weimar
Conductor: Kirill Karabits
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Audite
Release: 2020
Size: 2.18 GB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: yes
01. Künstlerfestzug zur Schillerfeier 1859, S114
02. Tasso, Lamento e trionfo, symphonic poem No. 2, S96
Dante Symphony, S. 109
03. I. Inferno
04. II. Purgatorio
05. III. Magnificat
Vor hundert Jahren, S. 347
06. I. Allegro appassionato
07. II. “Wohin entflieh’ ich?” (Germania)
08. III. Andante – “Oh heil’ge Eintracht” (Germania) (Live)
09. IV. “Glück auf, Germania!” (Poesie – Germania)
10. V. Andante un poco mosso (Parzenlied) – “Vielleicht ist’s eines großen Menschen Nähe…” [Poesie, Germania, Clotho, Lachesis, Atropos]
11. VI. “Vernahmst du sie?” (Poesie – Germania)
12. VII. Freude schöner Götterfunken von Beethoven – “Sprich weiter” (Germania – Poesie) (Live)
13. VIII. Allegro (Ein freies Leben führen wir) – “Erfolg begrüßt ihn” [Germania – Poesie]
14. IX. Maestoso – “Gedankenvoll, gereift zum Meister, der er werden soll…” (Poesie)
15. X. Allegro. Reiterlied ‘Wohlauf Kameraden, aufs Pferd’ aus Friedrich Schillers Wallenstein
16. XI. “Du schweigst?” (Germania – Poesie)
17. XII. Sehr langsam – “Wie jene Jungfrau…” (Poesie)
18. XIII. “Sein letztes Lied” (Germania – Poesie)
19. XIV. “Blick hin!” (Poesie – Germania)
20. XV. Das ganze Deutschland soll es sein – “Du aber Zukunft” (Poesie) – Schluss. So soll es sein
The series of recordings with Kirill Karabits conducting the Staatskapelle Weimar, continuing a tradition dating back to Liszt’s years as Kapellmeister there, have been strongly acclaimed. With this release, listeners can sample a fine performance of one of the major Liszt tone poems, Tasso: Lamento e Trionfo, and hear some lesser-known works. The latter includes a pair of world premieres (for online listeners, at least), which will be motivation enough for perfect Lisztians. The first is the Künstlerfestzug zur Schillerfeier, S. 114, a sort of festive overture composed for a celebration of Schiller’s work. This is thoroughly enjoyable, and it’s a rare mood for Liszt. That work served as an overture to the melodrama Vor Hundert Jahren, S. 347, a little play with background music showing two characters, Germania and Poesie, being guided by the spirit of Schiller; the music quotes the finale theme of Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9, Op. 125, several times along the way. This work was performed previously by Karabits in English with the Bournemouth Symphony, but this reading, available online or as a download only, is apparently the first recording of the original German (the German text does not appear to be available anywhere online). To see what Karabits can really do, sample Tasso, and especially the Dante Symphony, with its gloomy evocation of the Inferno in its opening movement. Karabits’s performance of this large work is several minutes longer than average, without dragging in the least: he gets the moody quality that is lost in splashier readings. A very strong Liszt release, with fine sound from the Congress Centrum Neue Weimarhalle.