Composer: Ferencz Liszt, Franz Peter Schubert
Performer: Sylviane Deferne
Number of Discs: 2
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Aparté
Catalogue: AP294
Release: 2022
Size: 1.14 GB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: yes
CD 01
01. Schubert: 13 Variations on a theme by Anselm Hüttenbrenner in A minor, D576
Schubert: 4 Impromptus, D935
02. No. 1 in F Minor (Allegro moderato)
03. No. 2 in A-Flat Major (Allegretto)
04. No. 3 in B-Flat Major (Thema con variazioni – Andante)
05. No. 4 in F Minor (Allegro scherzando)
CD 02
01. Liszt: Der Wanderer (No. 11 from Zwölf Lieder von Franz Schubert, S558)
Liszt: Wandererfantasie
02. I. Allegro con fuoco ma non troppo
03. II. Adagio
04. III. Presto
05. IV. Allegro
Prominent in the German Romantic imagination, the figure of the “wanderer” was also taken up by Franz Schubert. He composed a lied of that name, the theme of which was later to be found in his virtuosic Fantasy in C major, later aptly dubbed the “Wanderer-Fantasie”. A tireless wanderer himself, Franz Liszt transcribed Schubert’s lied for piano and presented several versions of the Fantasy in C, including one for piano and orchestra and another for two pianos.
Here Sylviane Deferne presents the rarest of Liszt’s versions of the Wanderer-Fantasie, the one for solo piano, with the last movement completely rewritten by the Hungarian composer. Two works by Schubert complete the programme: the 4 Impromptus, Op. 142, written a year before his death, and a rarely recorded early work, the Variations on a theme by Anselm Hüttenbrenner.