Liszt: Complete Piano Music, Vol. 67

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Naxos
Release Date
November 7, 2025
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    Featuring
    • COMPOSER
      Franz Liszt
    • PERFORMER
      Paul Williamson
    Product Details
    • RELEASE DATE
      November 07, 2025
    • UPC
      747313471775
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      8574717
    • LABEL
      Naxos
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      1
    • GENRE
    Works
    1. Széchényi - Einleitung und Ungarischer Marsch (Bevezetés és magyar induló), S573/R261

      Composer: Franz Liszt

      Performer: Paul Williamson

    2. Grande paraphrase de la marche de Donizetti composée pour Sa Majesté le Sultan Abdul Medjid Khan, S403/R157

      Composer: Franz Liszt

      Performer: Paul Williamson

    3. Massenet - Revive Szegedin, marche hongroise de Szabady, S572/R260

      Composer: Franz Liszt

      Performer: Paul Williamson

    4. Rossini - Introduction des variations sur une marche du Siège de Corinthe, S421a

      Composer: Franz Liszt

      Performer: Paul Williamson

    5. Beethoven - Symphony No. 3 in E-Flat Major, S464/R128, "Eroica": II. Marche funèbre (1st version)

      Composer: Franz Liszt

      Performer: Paul Williamson

    6. Schubert - 3 Marches militaires: No. 1 in D Major, S426a

      Composer: Franz Liszt

      Performer: Paul Williamson

    7. Glinka - Tscherkessenmarsch aus Russlan und Ludmilla, S406/R164 (1st version)

      Composer: Franz Liszt

      Performer: Paul Williamson

    8. Grande paraphrase de la marche de Donizetti composée pour Sa Majesté le Sultan Abdul Medjid Khan, S403/R157 (simplified version)

      Composer: Franz Liszt

      Performer: Paul Williamson

    9. Meyerbeer - Festmarsch zu Schillers 100jähriger Geburtstagsfeier, S549/R226

      Composer: Franz Liszt

      Performer: Paul Williamson


Marches and other patriotic music frequently occupied the final place in Liszt's recitals, often emphasising the Hungarian cause, which Liszt supported. They also could have contributed to the previously mentioned mood of Lisztomania. It is therefore unsurprising that marches are to be found in Liszt's compositions and arrangements throughout his lifetime. They are represented here with works from around 1830 to 1879, all arrangements of other composers' music, which, in Liszt's hands, achieve artistic heights only found infrequently elsewhere. Given the common practice of the era for performer-composers to play their own music, Liszt could, through the inclusion of an arrangement of a well-known march, acknowledge others' music, and also pay respect to the culture of wherever the concert was taking place. In an era when recordings were not possible, piano arrangements of orchestral and vocal works were commonplace. Liszt cultivated this medium particularly successfully, creating arrangements of, for example, Beethoven symphonies and paraphrases of stage works by Russian composers such as Glinka. Arrangements heard here of marches by Beethoven, Giuseppe Donizetti, Glinka, Massenet, Meyerbeer, Rossini, Schubert and Szechenyi, indicate the breadth of Liszt's programming for his time.