Composer: Franz Liszt, Frédéric Chopin
Performer: Mariam Batsashvili
Audio CD
Number of Discs: 1
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Warner
Size: 577 MB
Recovery: +3%
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Franz Liszt
Harmonies poétiques et religieuses, S. 173
01. III. Bénédiction de Dieu dans la solitude
6 Polish Songs, After Chopin S. 480
02. I. Mädchens Wunsch (Op. 74 No. 1)
03. II. Frühling (Op. 74 No. 2)
04. III. Das Ringlein (Op. 74 No. 14)
05. IV. Bacchanal (Op. 74 No. 4)
06. V. Meine Freuden (Op. 74 No. 12)
07. VI. Die Heimkehr (Op. 74 No. 15)
6 Consolations, S. 172
08. I. Andante con moto
09. II. Un poco più mosso
10. III. Lento placido
11. IV. Quasi adagio, cantabile con divozione
12. V. Andantino
13. VI. Allegretto sempre cantabile
Frédéric Chopin (1810 – 1849)
12 Etudes, Op. 10
14. No. 1 in C Major
Franz Liszt
12 Grandes Etudes, S. 137
15. No. 9 in A-Flat Major
Frédéric Chopin
12 Etudes, Op. 10
16. No. 2 in A Minor
17. No. 4 in C-Sharp Minor
Franz Liszt
12 Grandes Etudes, S. 137
18. No. 10 in F Minor
On her first Warner Classics album pianist Mariam Batsashvili combines solo works by Franz Liszt – a figure of special significance for her – and his contemporary Frédéric Chopin. She left her native Georgia to study at the Franz Liszt Conservatory in Weimar and gained international recognition in 2014 when she won the 10th Franz Liszt Piano Competition. Chopin was just a year older than Liszt and the two became good friends in Paris. The two pianist-composers are, as Batsashvili explains, “very, very different in the way they express themselves, but I can hear in their music that they respected each other greatly.”
“Her technical prowess and ability to negotiate Liszt’s showy grandeur is a given, but her sense of his inner world, his wistful, nonchalant poetry – in the Grande études in A flat or the Consolations (Pensées poétiques) or the Polish Songs after Chopin – sets her apart as one to watch.” (The Observer)