Liszt: The Complete Symphonic Poems for Two Pianos [Box set]

Franz Liszt (Composer), Georgia & Louise Mangos (Performer) | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Performer: Georgia & Louise Mangos
• Composer: Franz Liszt
• Audio CD (June 28, 2000)
• Number of Discs: 3
• Format: Box set
• Note on Boxed Sets: During shipping, discs in boxed sets occasionally become dislodged without damage. Please examine and play these discs. If you are not completely satisfied, we'll refund or replace your purchase.
• Label: Cedille
• ASIN: B00004TXZF
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #892,042 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

Disc: 1

1. Ce qu'on entend sur la montagne, for 2 pianos ('Bergsymphonie'), S. 635 (LW C9)

2. Tasso: Lamento e Trionfo, symphonic poem for 2 pianos, S. 636 (LW C10)

3. Les Préludes, symphonic poem for 2 pianos, S. 637 (LW C11)

4. Orpheus, symphonic poem for 2 pianos, S. 638 (LW C12)

Disc: 2

1. Prometheus, symphonic poem for 2 pianos, S. 639 (LW C14)

2. Mazeppa, symphonic poem for 2 pianos, S. 640 (LW C13)

3. Festklänge, symphonic poem for 2 pianos, S. 641 (LW C7)

4. Héroïde funèbre, symphonic poem for 2 pianos, S. 642 (LW C15)

Disc: 3

1. Hungaria, symphonic poem for 2 pianos, S. 643 (LW C16)

2. Hamlet, symphonic poem for 2 pianos, S. 644 (LW C22)

3. Hunnenschlacht, symphonic poem for 2 pianos, S. 645 (LW C21)

4. Die Ideale, symphonic poem for 2 pianos, S. 646 (LW C17)

Editorial Reviews

Fanfare

One can only hope that Cedille has further plans for this enormously talented duo.

Product Description

This Box Set includes all three volumes in our historic collection of Liszt's own two-piano versions of his 12 symphonic poems from the Weimar period (1848-61). The 3-disc series comprises the first complete recording of these works, most of which had disappeared from the repertoire by the turn of the century. "Returning Liszt's two-piano versions to the concert repertoire has been a long and thrilling journey for us," the Mangos sisters write in the program notes. "We're convinced that these landmark works are as vibrant and emotionally compelling as ever." The Mangos sisters have been performing the Liszt in concert with gratifying results. "These works really have the ability to ignite an audience," Louise Mangos says. "It's unusual to get a robust, standing ovation for music that hasn't been heard in 125 years. But audiences respond to these works as if they were familiar favorites." The Chicago-area concert pianists and music professors discovered the scores, which have never been published in modern versions, while scouting for duo-piano repertoire in European libraries, collections, and music shops. The first Liszt CD released in June 1993 received such comments as: "stunning", "absolutely smashing," and "sensitive, virtuosic and idiomatic." The Chicago Sun-Times praised the second disc, released in October 1995, for its "astounding heavy metal pianism" and "almost surreal musicianship and interpretation." The third CD, released in August 1996 also elicited positive responses, and Fanfare wrote about the Mangos sisters: "One can only hope that Cedille has further plans for this enormously talented duo." (We did . . . and subsequently released in 1999, Liszt for Two, featuring Liszt's Six Hungarian Rhapsodies for Piano Four-Hands, and his Mephisto Waltz for Two Pianos.)

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