Liszt dante sonata, sheet music, scores liszt, franz. The britishcanadian pianist angela hewitt has a refreshing attitude to liszt. Where harmony is concerned, you have tritones quite literally everywhere. Another amazing b minor sonata recording i forgot is levys. There is a richly inclusive sense in the sonnets of ardour and reflection i fear, yet hope, i burn, yet am turned to ice and i beheld on earth angelic grace. Liszt dante sonata download free sheet music and scores scorser. Fantasia quasi sonata is a piano sonata in one movement, completed by hungarian composer franz liszt in. Instrumentation piano external links wikipedia article. Midi concerto for piano and string instruments in e minor, s 121, lw h1, malediction. Sonata in b minor, dante sonata by andrea kauten on.
Two events conspired to bring liszt back from his years of pilgrimage to the concert stagesomething which didnt. Liszts letter to massart is dated bellagio, october 1837, in jacques vier, franz liszt. Fantasia quasi sonata french for after a reading of dante. His evocation of the inferno, the shade of francesca da rimini and her sad remembered love is marked by strokes of genius which, with bewildering frequency, preempt the mature wagner who. My take on that is if one is ready to tackle either piece then that person is not asking that kind of questions on the public discussion boards. If her petrarch sonnets and dante fantasia liszts other sonata dont quite reach this exalted level, they are nonetheless frontrank performances.
The two of them grew even closer in the same year, when bulow married. This work of program music was inspired by the reading of dante. Now liszt s dante sonata, being a work for solo piano, is a decidedly odd choice to couple with a symphony for full orchestra. Highly influenced by literature, as he was by visual art and architecture, namely that of the italian renaissance, liszt had used his inspiration to dredge himself out of what had become a. Apres une lecture du dante fantasia quasi sonata, s158c. Liszt, ferencz 181186 aimi kobayashi is a leading young japanese pianist, one of the ten finalists at the chopin competition in 2015. Dante sonata fantasia quasi sonata pletnev duration. In the dante sonata i like arrau, but i like sofronitsky even more i think, despite terrible sound. Liszts dante symphony is a work of astonishing imagination. Fantasia quasi sonata, detta anche dante sonata, settima parte del ii volume deuxieme annee. Liszt, marie dagoult, and the dante sonata 19thcentury. Sonata in b minor, dante sonata by andrea kauten now. Franz liszt composer 18111886 play streams in full or download mp3 from classical archives, the largest and best organized classical music site on the web. But the dante sonata version here was made, as the headnote indicates, by one of the pianists, vittorio bresciani.
Liszt noted on the sonatas manuscript that it was completed on february 2, 1853, but he had composed an earlier. Piano sonata, dante sonata, petrarch sonnets hewitt liszt hewitt release date. Overall this performance is highly dramatic and seems to me, at least for the performance of the dante symphony to be a riveting reference recording of this work. Piano solo sheet music book by franz liszt 18111886. Besides, apart from the titles, and presumably the inspiration for composition, both works hardly have anything in common. The origins, the criticism, a selective musical analysis, and commentary.
His evocation of the inferno, the shade of francesca da rimini and her sad remembered love is marked by strokes of genius which, with bewildering frequency, preempt the mature wagner who was, incidentally, the dedicatee of the work. The disc concludes with the dante sonata, improvisatory, impulsive and less than perfect in this execution. Donizetti opera transcriptions liszt complete piano music, vol. In 1839, while under the spell of dantes divine comedy, liszt had begun work on a fragment dantesque. Apres une lecture du dantefantasia quasi sonata or the dante sonata as it is known was first sketched in september 1839 when liszt and marie dagoult were in san rossore, on the mediterranean coast near elba. The other liszt disc here also contains transcriptions. Apres une lecture du dantefantasia quasi sonata is the title which clearly belongs to the extensive onemovement revision of the piece. It was completed in 1853 and published in 1854 with a dedication to robert schumann. We and our partners use cookies to personalize your experience, to show you ads based on your interests, and for measurement and analytics purposes. Towards the end of the final section of the b minor sonata there is a sequence of nine i think chords played rather quietly i think this is one of the most beautiful moments in music. Liszt the dante sonata and other works harmonia mundi.
The salonstyle elegance of the valseimpromptu suits nakamatsus approach best, but more generally liszt requires a degree of dramatic involvement and storytelling immediacy that eludes him. Stream adfree with amazon music unlimited on mobile, desktop, and tablet. The staggered compositional history of one particular piano work, apres une lecture du dantefantasie quasi sonata 183958, straddles this schism uniquely in that it bridged two distinct periods of liszts life. As such, it documents the miseenscene of liszts selffashioned. Dante sonata, an album by franz liszt, arnaldo cohen on spotify. Liszt noted on the sonata s manuscript that it was completed on february 2, 1853, but he had composed an earlier. Best version of liszt sonata page 2 talk classical. Now liszts dante sonata, being a work for solo piano, is a decidedly odd choice to couple with a symphony for full orchestra.
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