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The Liszt Recital - Benediction de Dieu dans la Solitude - Live

Transcendental Étude No. 3 "Paysage" (Liszt)

Hungarian Rhapsody No. 13 in A minor, S. 244/13, was written in 1847 and published in 1853. It was dedicated to Count Leo Festetics. It is the least performed, but one of the most musically beautiful rhapsodies by Liszt. It begins with a rich sound of a melancholy melody in the middle piano register, gradually growing more impassioned and effervescently embellished. The following A major section has a merrier mood and dance-like turns, although at times interrupted with anguish of the introductory motif. Virtuosic and fiery Friska section  is in Vivace tempo, and is building with impetuous energy towards the grandiloquent Presto assai coda in A Major.  The last tune is the authentic Hungarian folk song Nem, nem, nem, nem megyünk mi innen el. It also quotes Akkor szép az erdő, mikor zöld and is based on the 17th number of Magyar Dallok, Volume I.  In this rhapsody Liszt truly captures sounds of Gypsy bands, “Hungarian cadence” rhythm and Hungarian Gypsy minor scale.

Franz Liszt: Rhapsodies, Études and Transcriptions

02 Liszt. Hungarian Rhapsody No. 13 In A Minor

Hungarian Rhapsody No. 6 in D-flat Major, S. 244/6, was written in 1847, published in 1853, and dedicated to Count Anton von Apponyi. Based on themes from Liszt's Magyar Dalok, and Magyar rapszódiák, from S. 242, it was orchestrated four years later, together with his other 5 rhapsodies. Liszt wrote a third version for piano 4 hands in 1874. This rhapsody has four sections, each employing a separate Hungarian folk melody (Chlopitzky nóta, Cserebogár, sárga cserebogár, and verbunkos). The first two are part of an introduction, consisting of a glorious march followed by a rapid dance, both imbued with off-beat accents producing bizarre and wild flavor. Lassan is based on a morbid Hungarian poem. Liszt’s music reflects its pensive crying and eruptive mood in improvisatory Gypsy style. Friska is playful and sunny, leading to exhilaration of repeated notes and scales in octaves toward a bravura conclusion. This rhapsody is one of Liszt’s most technically challenging and extroverted.

01 Liszt. Hungarian Rhapsody No. 6 In D - Flat Major

Taiwanese Pianist Eva Yulin Shen performs Liszt Ballade No.2, Live Performance in Salle Pierre Mercure ,Montreal ,Canada 2008 

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Liszt Ballade No.2 -Eva Yulin Shen

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Franz Liszt Romance S.169

Liszt - Bellini Reminiscences De Norma S. 394

The legendary Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2, originally composed by Franz Liszt and rendered through Impact Soundworks' upcoming "Pearl Concert Grand" instrument for Kontakt Player!

"Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2" by Franz Liszt - Romantic Classic

Album release: 24th of February 2017

The hugely talented pianist makes his recording debut with the phenomenally difficult Liszt transcriptions of well-known opera melodies. A broad and thoughtful musician, Chiyan Wong’s special interest in the music of Franz Liszt, has led to him perfecting his own editions of these popular operatic fantasies. Following Liszt’s own advice regarding transcriptions, Wong concentrates on communicating the spirit and intention of the music whilst applying his own personal touches. A decade of performing Réminiscences de ‘Don Juan’ de Mozart has created a most effective version, whilst Wong adds a new coda to Fantasie über Themen aus Mozarts Figaro und Don Giovanni in a fitting tribute to Liszt’s pupil Carl Tausig. Wong has performed Liszt around the world: in Hong Kong as part of the composer’s bicentenary celebrations, in London at his Wigmore Hall debut, and in concert for the Liszt Society in Europe.

Chiyan Wong has been astonishing audiences with not just the sincerity and sheer authority of his playing, but is also fêted by critics and colleagues as a rising star of the piano world. Wong was the sole recipient of the Bernard van Zuiden Music Fund of the Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra in 2007 and won First Prize at the Jaques Samuel Pianos Intercollegiate Piano Competition in 2011. In addition, he has been awarded prizes by the Hattori Foundation in London, the International Piano Competition in Memory of Vladimir Horowitz in Ukraine and the Premio Liszt in Parma. He is a recipient of the Postgraduate Performance Award by the Musicians Benevolent Fund and the ABRSM Macklin Bursary. Wong has performed in Singapore, Italy, France, Germany and the UK and will return to the Singapore International Piano Festival in 2017.

 ‘Chiyan Wong is an exciting, original and thoughtful pianist. Nothing sounds ‘bought in’; everything sounds freshly but not self-consciously conceived.’ Stephen Hough

Liszt Transfigured: Operatic Fantasies for Piano

LISZT // Réminiscences de 'Don Juan' de Mozart - Grande fantaisie, S. 418

Liszt, Franz - Années De Pélérinage III, S.163 (N°4 Les Jeux D'eaux À La Villa D'Este)

From the album 'Chopin and Liszt: Piano Works'. Buy - http://amzn.to/2FfHe1Z.
Après une Lecture de Dante: Fantasia quasi Sonata (‘After a Reading of Dante: Fantasia quasi Sonata’), also known as the ‘Dante’ Sonata, is a piano sonata in one movement, completed by Liszt in 1849. It was inspired by Victor Hugo’s poem ‘After a Reading of Dante’ - the most famous epic poem by Dante Alighieri, the Divine Comedy. It was published in 1856 as part of the second volume of his ‘Années de pèlerinage’, together with the sonnets. This sonata is the most important and longest work in the cycle, and is regarded to be one of the most difficult pieces for the piano, requiring physical and emotional stamina. It has a cyclical structure of a hybrid sonata form blended with elements of a fantasy. This compositional style with its thematic transformation, improvisatory character, harmonic structure, as well as introduction of slow and melodic middle section., common to the B Minor Sonata and the Grosses Konzertsolo, was innovative and rebellious against conventional musical structures. 
There are two main themes in ‘Dante’ Sonata. The first one is chromatic and in D minor, conveying lamenting souls in Hell. In music, D minor is a key often depicting death (Mozart's Requiem and the statue scene of Don Giovanni, Liszt's Totentanz, etc.). To emphasize an image of Hell, Liszt uses the “Devil’s interval”, tritone: augmented 4th or diminished 5th, which in music portrays Devil. The secondary theme is derived from the first one with its chromatic sections, but now it is an elated F-sharp Major chorale, expressing Heavenly joy. It is also believed that this theme impersonates Beatrice Portinari, whom Dante loved. In the last part of this composition, chromatic stream of octaves is emulating the three heads of Satan in Inferno, splitting into three distinct themes. Victorious thunder of chords ends in D Major. ‘Dante’ Sonata surmises Liszt's innovations in musical form and harmony, establishing him as one of the most influential and forward-looking composers of the nineteenth century.

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Liszt: Apres Une Lecture Du Dante ('Dante' Sonata)

From the album 'Chopin and Liszt: Piano Works'. Buy - http://amzn.to/2FfHe1Z.
In the virtuosic, moody, charming, and brilliant Hungarian Rhapsody No. 14, as in his other Hungarian Rhapsodies, Liszt used Hungarian folk themes, influenced by Gypsy (Roma) music. Some of these were written by amateur and professional Hungarian composers, played by Gypsy bands. Liszt structured his Rhapsodies in  the style of ‘Verbunkos’ - a Hungarian dance in different sections, with the lassan and the friska (slow and fast) parts, having the components of Gypsy improvisation,

Liszt: Hungarian Rhapsody No.14

اجرای معروفترین قطعه از پاگانینی "لا کامپانلا" - تنظیم شده برای پیانو سلو از فرانتس لیست - پیانیست: نیکولای لوگانسکی - انتشار: ۲۰۱۲

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Frantz Liszt - La Campanella

Youtube Video link:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a5SmNcw0KB0

A beautiful, dark and haunting piece. Not as popular as many of the other Liszt Hungarian Rhapsodies, as it is for the most part, purely musical and not a technical 'tour de force' "like so many of Liszt's compositions. This track is from the album 'Classical Soul Volume II' and is available for purchase at CDBABY here: http://www.cdbaby.com/halfreedman2
Youtube video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a5SmNcw0KB0

Hungarian Rhapsody in E Minor No.5

Hungarian Rhapsody in E Minor No.5 by Franz Liszt (Video)

1997 Internet Recital - Steinway Hall, NYC West 57th Street; photo courtesy Eric Smith

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Liszt: Sonetto 104 Del Petrarca In E Major

F. Liszt Piano Concerto no. 2
Evgeny Cherepanov, Klavier

Pleven 2010

F. Liszt Piano Concerto no. 2

Forma part de l'obra "Années de Pèlerinage" , Prémier Année: Suisse de Franz Liszt.
Inspirada en la novel·la "Obermann" de Senancour.

Del cd "El piano en el Romanticisme europeu"   Montse Rios, piano

La Vallée d'Obermann   Franz Liszt - Montse Rios, piano

Franz Liszt Spanish rhapsody (rhapsodie espagnole) S 254 Piano by world-class concert pianist Stephanie Elbaz. Piano solo.
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(Franz Liszt rhapsodie espagnole spanische rhapsodie espana rhapsody リスト スペイン狂詩曲)

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