Liszt
Liszt gained renown in Europe during the early nineteenth century for his prodigious virtuosic skill as a pianist. He was a friend, musical promoter and benefactor to many composers of his time, including Frédéric Chopin, Richard Wagner, Hector Berlioz, Robert Schumann, Camille Saint-Saëns, Edvard Grieg, Ole Bull, Joachim Raff, Mikhail Glinka, and Alexander Borodin.
As a composer, Liszt was one of the most prominent representatives of the New German School (Neudeutsche Schule). He left behind an extensive and diverse body of work in which he influenced his forward-looking contemporaries and anticipated many 20th-century ideas and trends. Some of his most notable musical contributions were the invention of the symphonic poem, developing the concept of thematic transformation as part of his experiments in musical form, and making radical departures in harmony.
Liszt
Liszt gained renown in Europe during the early nineteenth century for his prodigious virtuosic skill as a pianist. He was a friend, musical promoter and benefactor to many composers of his tim...
ELGAR Pomp and Circumstance March No. 1
ROSSINI The Barber of Seville - Overture
MENDELSSOHN Hebrides Overture
J. STRAUSS II Artist’s Life - Waltz
WEBER Euryanthe - Overture
plus piano solos by Chopin, Jensen, Liszt and Mendelssohn
Studio recordings, 1923-1930
Total duration: 79:01
Rudolph Ganz, conductor and piano
St. Louis Symphony Orchestra
SMETANA The Bartered Bride - Overture
LISZT Hungarian Rhapsody No. 12
BRAHMS Hungarian Dance No. 5
BRAHMS Hungarian Dance No. 6
DVOŘÁK Carnival Overture
DVOŘÁK Symphony No. 9
DVOŘÁK Slavonic Dance No. 1
Studio recordings, 1927-33
Total duration: 65:36
London Philharmonic Orchestra
Hallé Orchestra
Myra Hess, piano
Sir Hamilton Harty, piano, conductor
LISZT Les Préludes
WAGNER Parsifal: Prelude to Act I, Good Friday Spell
WAGNER Tristan und Isolde: Prelude to Act I, Liebestod
BRAHMS Hungarian Dances Nos. 5 & 6
Recorded 1925-28
Total duration: 61:46
San Francisco Symphony Orchestra
conducted by Alfred Hertz
WAGNER A Faust Overture
Stereo studio recordings, 1957
Total duration: 77:46
Ferdinand Koch, tenor
Orchestra And Chorus of the Southwest German Radio (SWDR)
Concert of 2 February 1948
Music by Haydn, Schubert, Scriabin, Kabalevsky, Chopin, Scarlatti, Moszkowski, Schumann, Liszt-Horowitz
Total duration: 79:52 (CD) & 92:59 (Download, includes encores)
Vladimir Horowitz, piano
Concert of 2 April 1948
Music by Beethoven, Schubert, Mussorgsky, Chopin, Debussy, Liszt, Rachmaninov, Scarlatti, Mozart, Sousa
Total duration: 79:27 (CD) & 91:23 (Download, includes encores)
Vladimir Horowitz, piano