Beethoven-Liszt: The 9 Symphonies on Piano / Bellucci

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Label
Brilliant Classics
Release Date
October 28, 2022
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      Ludwig van Beethoven
    • PERFORMER
      Giovanni Bellucci
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      October 28, 2022
    • UPC
      5028421948638
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      BRI94863
    • LABEL
      Brilliant Classics
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      5
    • GENRE
      Classical
    Works ⌄

    1. I. Adagio molto - Allegro con brio

      Composer: Franz Liszt

      Performer: Giovanni Bellucci

    2. II. Andante cantabile con moto

      Composer: Franz Liszt

      Performer: Giovanni Bellucci

    3. III. Menuetto: Allegro molto e vivace

      Composer: Franz Liszt

      Performer: Giovanni Bellucci

    4. IV. Adagio - Allegro molto vivace

      Composer: Franz Liszt

      Performer: Giovanni Bellucci

    5. I. Allegro con brio

      Composer: Franz Liszt

      Performer: Giovanni Bellucci

    6. II. Marcia funebre: Adagio assai

      Composer: Franz Liszt

      Performer: Giovanni Bellucci

    7. III. Scherzo: Allegro vivace

      Composer: Franz Liszt

      Performer: Giovanni Bellucci

    8. IV. Finale: Allegro molto

      Composer: Franz Liszt

      Performer: Giovanni Bellucci

    9. I. Adagio molto - Allegro con brio

      Composer: Franz Liszt

      Performer: Giovanni Bellucci

    10. II. Larghetto

      Composer: Franz Liszt

      Performer: Giovanni Bellucci

    11. III. Scherzo: Allegro

      Composer: Franz Liszt

      Performer: Giovanni Bellucci

    12. IV. Allegro molto

      Composer: Franz Liszt

      Performer: Giovanni Bellucci

    13. I. Allegro con brio

      Composer: Franz Liszt

      Performer: Giovanni Bellucci

    14. II. Andante con moto

      Composer: Franz Liszt

      Performer: Giovanni Bellucci

    15. III. Allegro -

      Composer: Franz Liszt

      Performer: Giovanni Bellucci

    16. IV. Allegro

      Composer: Franz Liszt

      Performer: Giovanni Bellucci

    17. I. Adagio - Allegro vivace

      Composer: Franz Liszt

      Performer: Giovanni Bellucci

    18. II. Adagio

      Composer: Franz Liszt

      Performer: Giovanni Bellucci

    19. III. Allegro molto e vivace

      Composer: Franz Liszt

      Performer: Giovanni Bellucci

    20. IV. Allegro ma non troppo

      Composer: Franz Liszt

      Performer: Giovanni Bellucci

    21. I. Poco sostenuto - Vivace

      Composer: Franz Liszt

      Performer: Giovanni Bellucci

    22. II. Allegretto

      Composer: Franz Liszt

      Performer: Giovanni Bellucci

    23. III. Scherzo

      Composer: Franz Liszt

      Performer: Giovanni Bellucci

    24. IV. Allegro con brio

      Composer: Franz Liszt

      Performer: Giovanni Bellucci

    25. I. Awakening of Cheerful Feelings Upon Arrival in the Country: Allegro ma non troppo

      Composer: Franz Liszt

      Performer: Giovanni Bellucci

    26. II. Scene by the Brook: Andante molto mosso

      Composer: Franz Liszt

      Performer: Giovanni Bellucci

    27. III. Merry Gathering of Country Folk: Allegro

      Composer: Franz Liszt

      Performer: Giovanni Bellucci

    28. IV. Thunderstorm: Allegro

      Composer: Franz Liszt

      Performer: Giovanni Bellucci

    29. V. Shepherd's Song: Happy and Thankful Feelings after the Storm: Allegretto

      Composer: Franz Liszt

      Performer: Giovanni Bellucci

    30. I. Allegro vivace e con brio

      Composer: Franz Liszt

      Performer: Giovanni Bellucci

    31. II. Allegretto scherzando

      Composer: Franz Liszt

      Performer: Giovanni Bellucci

    32. III. Tempo di menuetto

      Composer: Franz Liszt

      Performer: Giovanni Bellucci

    33. IV. Allegro vivace

      Composer: Franz Liszt

      Performer: Giovanni Bellucci

    34. I. Allegro ma non troppo, un poco maestoso

      Composer: Franz Liszt

      Performer: Giovanni Bellucci

    35. II. Molto vivace

      Composer: Franz Liszt

      Performer: Giovanni Bellucci

    36. III. Adagio molto e cantabile - Andante moderato

      Composer: Franz Liszt

      Performer: Giovanni Bellucci

    37. Beethoven - Symphony No. 9 in D Minor, S657/R376, "Choral": IV. Finale: Presto (with Beethoven's original chorus part)

      Composer: Franz Liszt

      Ensemble: Brno Czech Philharmonic Choir

      Performer: Hana Škarková, Lucie Hilscherova, Michal Lehotský, Martin Gurbal, Giovanni Bellucci


As the Italian pianist Giovanni Bellucci remarks in an extensive booklet introduction, this album is the fruit of study over the past 20 years and more, into the worlds of both Beethoven and Liszt and their meeting point in these transcriptions where the Hungarian composer sought to honor his forebear as the original leader of an artistic movement we now think of as Romanticism, where the composer places himself at the front and center of his works. Liszt’s transcriptions diverged from the ready-made arrangements which publishers rapidly produced and reprinted to meet the demands of amateur and domestic audiences. Here, the symphonic world of Beethoven is not merely experienced as a distant echo but translated into the idiom of the virtuoso piano which swept across Europe during the latter half of the 19th century, led by Liszt and Clara Schumann. Thus in these performances, Bellucci seeks a kind of fidelity to the Romantic age of the transcriptions rather than the Classical age of the original works.

Taking broad tempi and probing deeply into textures which, after all, condense the soundworld of an entire orchestra into the span of ten fingers, Bellucci presents an individual and compelling new vision of works which renew themselves at the hands of each new generation’s interpreters. The cycle reaches its climax with the Ninth, recorded live at the2014 Lisztomania Festival in France, with the participation of the Czech Philharmonic Choir of Brno and soloists Hana Škarková, Lucie Hilscherová, Michal Lehotský and Martin Gurbal. Other studio sessions have taken place in the famous Salle de Musique at La Chaux de Fonds in Switzerland, between 2018 and 2021.