Liszt: Music For Piano And Orchestra 1 / Howard (The Complete Music For Solo Piano) [Import]

Franz Liszt (Composer, Conductor), Leslie Howard (Performer), Karl Anton Rickenbacher (Artist), Leslie Howard (Artist), Budapest Symphony Orchestra (Artist) | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Performer: Leslie Howard
• Conductor: Franz Liszt
• Composer: Franz Liszt
• Audio CD (November 24, 1998)
• Number of Discs: 2
• Format: Import
• Label: Hyperion UK
• ASIN: B00000G3ZH
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #351,483 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

Disc: 1

1. Concerto No. 1 In E Flat Major S124: Allegro maestoso. Tempo giusto -

2. Concerto No. 1 In E Flat Major S124: Quasi adagio -

3. Concerto No. 1 In E Flat Major S124: Allegretto vivace -

4. Concerto No. 1 In E Flat Major S124: Allegro marziale animato

5. Fantasie uber Motive aus Beethovens Ruinen von Athen S122: Tempo di marcia. Moderato -

6. Fantasie uber Motive aus Beethovens Ruinen von Athen S122: Cadenza del pianoforte - Allegro vivace ma non troppo - Allegro molto vivace - Cadenza del pianoforte -

7. Fantasie uber Motive aus Beethovens Ruinen von Athen S122: Allegretto - Poco a poco piu mosso - Vivo - Tempo di marcia. Animato - Piu allegro - Presto

8. Totentanz - Paraphrase uber 'Dies irae' (Final Version) S126ii: Andante - Presto - Allegro - Allegro moderato

9. Totentanz - Paraphrase uber 'Dies irae' (Final Version) S126ii: Variation I. Allegro moderato -

10. Totentanz - Paraphrase uber 'Dies irae' (Final Version) S126ii: Variation II. (L'istesso tempo) - Un poco animato -

See all 16 tracks on this disc

Disc: 2

1. Concerto In E Minor For Piano And Strings 'Malediction': Quasi moderato (Malediction) - Sostenuto - Molto agitato - Calmato (Pleurs, angoisse)

2. Concerto In E Minor For Piano And Strings 'Malediction': Un poco piu animato - Un poco agitato - Vivo (Raillerie) - Sempre piu di fuoco -

3. Concerto In E Minor For Piano And Strings 'Malediction': Energico nobilmente - Sempre moderato; a tempo rubato - Sostenuto - Recitativo. Patetico. Senza tempo - Andante lacrimoso -

4. Concerto In E Minor For Piano And Strings 'Malediction': Animato con agitazione - Molto animato, quasi Presto - Stretto - Strepitoso

5. Concerto In E Flat: Andantino - Recitativo del pianoforte -

6. Concerto In E Flat: Allegro - Tempo primo -

7. Concerto In E Flat: Andante -

8. Concerto In E Flat: Tempo primo - Allegro come prima -

9. Concerto In E Flat: Allegro vivace - Piu mosso

10. Grand Solo de concert: Allegro energico - Patetico - Agitato -

See all 28 tracks on this disc

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Liszt's Concertante music!! No other collection like it!!, December 22, 2002

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C. McGovern "Piano Dude" (Beacon Falls, CT USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Liszt: Music For Piano And Orchestra 1 / Howard (The Complete Music For Solo Piano) (Audio CD)

Leslie Howard--What would we do without him??? He's a music giant! He serves us both as a musician and a Liszt-historian, tracking down some long-lost scores of Liszt's music and bringing them to life and to the public for the first time, in some cases since the debut of the works' performance, in some cases the first time ever.
This, plus Vol. 2 of this series-within-a-series is some of the greatest music ever written combining the forces of a piano virtuoso with a symphony orchestra (Right up there with Chopin, Tchaikovsky and Rachmaninov), and not only top-notch performances of the classic Concerto #1 (#2 is on Vol 2) and the Totentanz, there's also the beautiful Fantasy on Berlioz's Lelio, the long-abandoned Concerto in E-Flat (believed to be #3 for many years), a Concerto arranged for strings-only with piano, a Fantasy on Beethoven's "Ruins of Athens" culminating in the great "March of the Turks", and a version of Carl Maria von Weber's "Grand Polonaise Brilliante" that Liszt re-arranged for piano and orchestra (He does this same feat with Schubert's "Wanderer Fantasie" on the next vol.) showing Liszt's impeccable talent for working well with other composers' music.
The sound of this all-digital collection is fabulous--Perhaps a little on the compressed side, but I certainly could let that slide in favor of the material! And did I mention Leslie Howard can play?? Boy can he!! If you really like Liszt, this is a MUST-HAVE!!

2 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Lots of music well-played a bargain buy it, December 8, 2000

By A Customer

This review is from: Liszt: Music For Piano And Orchestra 1 / Howard (The Complete Music For Solo Piano) (Audio CD)

Run on sentence, but it's true. There's a volume II which covers the gamut of Liszt's writing for piano & orchestra. I'm familiar with a few other performances of the piano concerti and these compare favorably, believe me. The other unfamiliar pieces are very entertaining and as we expect from Liszt go from great highs to a few questionable passages but there's so much good music on these two long discs I'd say snatch this one right up along with the next volume.