Liszt: Sonata in B Minor, S 178 / Badura-Skoda
Details
- Composer
- LISZT, FRANZ
- Artist
- Paul Badura-Skoda
- Format
- CD
- Label
- Gramola Records
- Released
- Sep 01, 2017
- Catalog #
- GRAM99147
- UPC
- 9003643991477
About
Three events were decisive for Paul Badura-Skonda’s beginnings: Furtwangler and Karajan hired the still unknown musician for their concerts in Vienna in 1949. By standing in for the sick Edwin Fischer at the Salzburg Festival in 1950 he became an international star. Major tours as a soloist followed. Further highlights in his career were his first tour of Japan, where he appeared in Tokyo alone 14 times, and the first, highly successful tour through the Soviet Union in 1964, which was followed by many other tours. In 1979, Paul Badura-Skoda was the first Western pianist to perform in China after the Cultural Revolution. In the Mozart jubilee year 1991, he played the cycle of all Mozart’s sonatas in Paris, Vienna Munich, Madrid, Tokyo, Hong Kong, etc. Paul describes his performance of the B minor Sonata by Franz Liszt from March 29, 1965 in the Carnegie Hall in New York as “one of the most inspired achievements of my career as a pianist.” To confront a perficious and nasty critique two weeks before in the same venue, Badura-Skoda played as unleashed, with an enormous energy, fuelled in part by internal fury. This concert recording which is to an extent owed to that heat of the moment is being published now, featuring a second interpretation of the same Sonata, a studio recording made in the Mozartsaal of the Vienna Konzerthaus six years later. This version is more controlled and, in the calmer passages, more internalized and contemplative than the New York interpretation. Let it be up to the listener to decide which of the two versions is the preferred one.
Tracklist 14 tracks
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1 I. Lento assai 05:02
- Track
- 1
- Title
- I. Lento assai
- Duration
- 05:02
- Composer
- Franz Liszt
- Performer
- Paul Badura-Skoda
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2 II. Cantando espressivo 03:49
- Track
- 2
- Title
- II. Cantando espressivo
- Duration
- 03:49
- Composer
- Franz Liszt
- Performer
- Paul Badura-Skoda
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3 III. Grandioso 01:50
- Track
- 3
- Title
- III. Grandioso
- Duration
- 01:50
- Composer
- Franz Liszt
- Performer
- Paul Badura-Skoda
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4 IV. Andante sostenuto 06:24
- Track
- 4
- Title
- IV. Andante sostenuto
- Duration
- 06:24
- Composer
- Franz Liszt
- Performer
- Paul Badura-Skoda
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5 V. Fugato: Allegro energico 03:30
- Track
- 5
- Title
- V. Fugato: Allegro energico
- Duration
- 03:30
- Composer
- Franz Liszt
- Performer
- Paul Badura-Skoda
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6 VI. Accentuato il canto 03:28
- Track
- 6
- Title
- VI. Accentuato il canto
- Duration
- 03:28
- Composer
- Franz Liszt
- Performer
- Paul Badura-Skoda
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7 VII. Andante sostenuto 03:18
- Track
- 7
- Title
- VII. Andante sostenuto
- Duration
- 03:18
- Composer
- Franz Liszt
- Performer
- Paul Badura-Skoda
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8 I. Lento assai 05:15
- Track
- 8
- Title
- I. Lento assai
- Duration
- 05:15
- Composer
- Franz Liszt
- Performer
- Paul Badura-Skoda
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9 II. Cantando espressivo 04:09
- Track
- 9
- Title
- II. Cantando espressivo
- Duration
- 04:09
- Composer
- Franz Liszt
- Performer
- Paul Badura-Skoda
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10 III. Grandioso 01:55
- Track
- 10
- Title
- III. Grandioso
- Duration
- 01:55
- Composer
- Franz Liszt
- Performer
- Paul Badura-Skoda
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11 IV. Andante sostenuto 06:46
- Track
- 11
- Title
- IV. Andante sostenuto
- Duration
- 06:46
- Composer
- Franz Liszt
- Performer
- Paul Badura-Skoda
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12 V. Fugato: Allegro energico 03:19
- Track
- 12
- Title
- V. Fugato: Allegro energico
- Duration
- 03:19
- Composer
- Franz Liszt
- Performer
- Paul Badura-Skoda
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13 VI. Accentuato il canto 03:45
- Track
- 13
- Title
- VI. Accentuato il canto
- Duration
- 03:45
- Composer
- Franz Liszt
- Performer
- Paul Badura-Skoda
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14 VII. Andante sostenuto 02:53
- Track
- 14
- Title
- VII. Andante sostenuto
- Duration
- 02:53
- Composer
- Franz Liszt
- Performer
- Paul Badura-Skoda