Composer: Ferencz Liszt
Performer: Nelson Goerner
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Alpha
Catalogue: ALPHA1036
Release: 2024
Size: 1.92 GB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: yes
Années de pèlerinage II, S. 161
01. No. 4. Sonetto 47 del Petrarca
02. No. 5. Sonetto 104 del Petrarca
03. No. 6. Sonetto 123 del Petrarca
04. Valses oubliées, No. 2, S. 215
Piano Sonata in B minor, S178
05. I. Lento assai – Allegro energico
06. II. Andante sostenuto – Quasi adagio
07. III. Allegro energico
08. La leggierezza – Étude de concert No. 2, S144
09. Hungarian Rhapsodies, S. 244: No. 6 in D-Flat Major
This is pianist Nelson Goerner’s twelfth recording for the Alpha Classics label. He devotes his new album to the solo piano works of Franz Liszt, with the famous Sonata in B minor as the centrepiece; nearly twenty years after his first CD of the sonata, he felt the urge to re-record it, following a series of critically acclaimed concerts. His talents as a storyteller and as a virtuoso with an eye for nuance are heard to marvellous effect in this monumental work, a veritable ‘musical action’ that undoubtedly belongs in the pantheon of the finest literature for piano. The programme is completed by excerpts from Liszt’s major cycles, including the Petrarch Sonnets from the Annees de pelerinage and the Hungarian Rhapsody no.6, along with the spectacular concert etude La leggierezza.