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Liszt: Between Light & Darkness / Vincent Larderet [2 CDs]
Piano Classics

Liszt: Between Light & Darkness / Vincent Larderet [2 CDs]

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Details

Composer
LISZT, FRANZ
Artist
Vincent Lardaret
Format
CD
Label
Piano Classics
Released
Oct 16, 2020
Catalog #
PCL10201
UPC
5029365102018

About

Vincent Larderet is a Steinway Artist who has given solo recitals at many of the world’s premier piano festivals and concert halls. The present release marks his debut on Piano Classics. His previous albums have explored the hot-house world of Impressionism and late Romanticism, making the intoxicating world of late Liszt a natural progression. Pieces on the edge of silence and tonality such as Nuages gris and Unstern! demand at least as much refined nuance of touch and color as the major cycles of Debussy and Ravel which Larderet has often performed in public. In his own booklet introduction, the pianist explains that the aim of the album is to capture the unrivalled rainbow of emotions that span Liszt’s protean oeuvre for the piano. His genius in creating the genre of programme music, almost from scratch (with help from Beethoven and Berlioz), is celebrated by the inclusion of the Dante Sonata of 1849, which condenses and transfigures the narrative arc of the entire Divine Comedy within a single 17-minute span. From four years later, the Second Ballade tells a Gothic tale of a night-ride, perhaps also the ancient Greek myth of Hero and Leander in which the hero drowns while attempting to swim across the Hellespont to visit his beloved, with the pianist called upon literally to produce wave upon wave of sound from his instrument in a masterpiece of tone-painting. The Funerailles anticipate the stern and enigmatic utterances of his very late period, condensing his rich harmonies and multi-layered voices to leave an ever-more imposing musical canvas which imbues each single note with significance and the overwhelming presence of mortality. The ‘sleepless’ vision of Schlaflos! Seems to come from another world; Larderet concludes his unique love-letter to Liszt with En rêve, which paints a more consoling dreamscape.

Tracklist 10 tracks

  1. 1 Années de pèlerinage, 2nd year, Italy, S161/R10b: No. 7. Après une lecture du Dante, fantasia quasi una sonata (After Reading Dante) 17:47
    Track
    1
    Title
    Années de pèlerinage, 2nd year, Italy, S161/R10b: No. 7. Après une lecture du Dante, fantasia quasi una sonata (After Reading Dante)
    Duration
    17:47
    Composer
    Franz Liszt
    Performer
    Vincent Larderet
  2. 2 3 Odes funèbres, S112/R429: No. 2. La notte, S699/R664 12:39
    Track
    2
    Title
    3 Odes funèbres, S112/R429: No. 2. La notte, S699/R664
    Duration
    12:39
    Composer
    Franz Liszt
    Performer
    Vincent Larderet
  3. 3 Schlaflos, Frage und Antwort, S203/R79 02:18
    Track
    3
    Title
    Schlaflos, Frage und Antwort, S203/R79
    Duration
    02:18
    Composer
    Franz Liszt
    Performer
    Vincent Larderet
  4. 4 Die Trauergondel No. 1 (La lugubre gondola No. 1), S200/1/R81/1, "Élégie No. 3" 08:31
    Track
    4
    Title
    Die Trauergondel No. 1 (La lugubre gondola No. 1), S200/1/R81/1, "Élégie No. 3"
    Duration
    08:31
    Composer
    Franz Liszt
    Performer
    Vincent Larderet
  5. 5 Trübe Wolken (Nuages gris), S199/R78 03:25
    Track
    5
    Title
    Trübe Wolken (Nuages gris), S199/R78
    Duration
    03:25
    Composer
    Franz Liszt
    Performer
    Vincent Larderet
  6. 6 Ballade No. 2 in B Minor, S171/R16 15:33
    Track
    6
    Title
    Ballade No. 2 in B Minor, S171/R16
    Duration
    15:33
    Composer
    Franz Liszt
    Performer
    Vincent Larderet
  7. 7 R.W.-Venezia, S201/R82 04:08
    Track
    7
    Title
    R.W.-Venezia, S201/R82
    Duration
    04:08
    Composer
    Franz Liszt
    Performer
    Vincent Larderet
  8. 8 Harmonies poétiques et religieuses, S173/R14 12:53
    Track
    8
    Title
    Harmonies poétiques et religieuses, S173/R14
    Duration
    12:53
    Composer
    Franz Liszt
    Performer
    Vincent Larderet
  9. 9 Unstern! Sinistre, disastro, S208/R80 05:50
    Track
    9
    Title
    Unstern! Sinistre, disastro, S208/R80
    Duration
    05:50
    Composer
    Franz Liszt
    Performer
    Vincent Larderet
  10. 10 En rêve (Nocturne), S207/R87 02:27
    Track
    10
    Title
    En rêve (Nocturne), S207/R87
    Duration
    02:27
    Composer
    Franz Liszt
    Performer
    Vincent Larderet