Liszt: Works For Piano & Orchestra / Lortie

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Chandos
Release Date
May 1, 2006
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    Featuring
    • COMPOSER
      LISZT, FRANZ
    • ORCHESTRA / ENSEMBLE
      Residentie Orchestra The Hague
    • PERFORMER
      Lortie, Pehlivanian
    Product Details
    • RELEASE DATE
      May 01, 2006
    • UPC
      095115137123
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      CHAN 10371(3) X
    • LABEL
      Chandos
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      3
    • GENRE
    Works
    1. Malediction, S121/R452

      Composer: Franz Liszt

      Ensemble: The Hague Residentie Orkest

      Performer: Louis Lortie

      Conductor: George Pehlivanian

    2. I. Lento -

      Composer: Franz Liszt

      Ensemble: The Hague Residentie Orkest

      Performer: Louis Lortie

      Conductor: George Pehlivanian

    3. II. Allegro vivace

      Composer: Franz Liszt

      Ensemble: The Hague Residentie Orkest

      Performer: Louis Lortie

      Conductor: George Pehlivanian

    4. III. Andantino, senza interruzione - Vivace animato

      Composer: Franz Liszt

      Ensemble: The Hague Residentie Orkest

      Performer: Louis Lortie

      Conductor: George Pehlivanian

    5. Andante -

      Composer: Franz Liszt

      Ensemble: The Hague Residentie Orkest

      Performer: Louis Lortie

      Conductor: George Pehlivanian

    6. Allegro moderato -

      Composer: Franz Liszt

      Ensemble: The Hague Residentie Orkest

      Performer: Louis Lortie

      Conductor: George Pehlivanian

    7. [—] - Tempo I - Allegro - Allegro marziale

      Composer: Franz Liszt

      Ensemble: The Hague Residentie Orkest

      Performer: Louis Lortie

      Conductor: George Pehlivanian

    8. Allegro maestoso - Tempo giusto -

      Composer: Franz Liszt

      Ensemble: The Hague Residentie Orkest

      Performer: Louis Lortie

      Conductor: George Pehlivanian

    9. Quasi adagio -

      Composer: Franz Liszt

      Ensemble: The Hague Residentie Orkest

      Performer: Louis Lortie

      Conductor: George Pehlivanian

    10. Allegretto vivace -

      Composer: Franz Liszt

      Ensemble: The Hague Residentie Orkest

      Performer: Louis Lortie

      Conductor: George Pehlivanian

    11. Allegro marziale animato

      Composer: Franz Liszt

      Ensemble: The Hague Residentie Orkest

      Performer: Louis Lortie

      Conductor: George Pehlivanian

    12. Piano Concerto No. 3 in E-Flat Major, S125a

      Composer: Franz Liszt

      Ensemble: The Hague Residentie Orkest

      Performer: Louis Lortie

      Conductor: George Pehlivanian

    13. Adagio sostenuto assai -

      Composer: Franz Liszt

      Ensemble: The Hague Residentie Orkest

      Performer: Louis Lortie

      Conductor: George Pehlivanian

    14. Allegro agitato assai - Un poco meno mosso -

      Composer: Franz Liszt

      Ensemble: The Hague Residentie Orkest

      Performer: Louis Lortie

      Conductor: George Pehlivanian

    15. Allegro moderato -

      Composer: Franz Liszt

      Ensemble: The Hague Residentie Orkest

      Performer: Louis Lortie

      Conductor: George Pehlivanian

    16. Allegro deciso -

      Composer: Franz Liszt

      Ensemble: The Hague Residentie Orkest

      Performer: Louis Lortie

      Conductor: George Pehlivanian

    17. Marziale un poco meno allegro - Un poco animato -

      Composer: Franz Liszt

      Ensemble: The Hague Residentie Orkest

      Performer: Louis Lortie

      Conductor: George Pehlivanian

    18. Un poco meno mosso -

      Composer: Franz Liszt

      Ensemble: The Hague Residentie Orkest

      Performer: Louis Lortie

      Conductor: George Pehlivanian

    19. Allegro animato

      Composer: Franz Liszt

      Ensemble: The Hague Residentie Orkest

      Performer: Louis Lortie

      Conductor: George Pehlivanian

    20. Totentanz, S126/R457

      Composer: Franz Liszt

      Ensemble: The Hague Residentie Orkest

      Performer: Louis Lortie

      Conductor: George Pehlivanian

    21. Fantasie on Motive from Beethoven's Ruinen von Athen, S122/R454

      Composer: Franz Liszt

      Ensemble: The Hague Residentie Orkest

      Performer: Louis Lortie

      Conductor: George Pehlivanian

    22. Weber - Polonaise brillante, S367/R460

      Composer: Franz Liszt

      Ensemble: The Hague Residentie Orkest

      Performer: Louis Lortie

      Conductor: George Pehlivanian

    23. Concerto pathétique, S365a

      Composer: Franz Liszt

      Ensemble: The Hague Residentie Orkest

      Performer: Louis Lortie

      Conductor: George Pehlivanian

    24. Fantasia on Hungarian Folk Themes, S123/R458, "Hungarian Fantasy"

      Composer: Franz Liszt

      Ensemble: The Hague Residentie Orkest

      Performer: Louis Lortie

      Conductor: George Pehlivanian

    25. Allegro con fuoco, ma non troppo -

      Composer: Franz Liszt

      Ensemble: The Hague Residentie Orkest

      Performer: Louis Lortie

      Conductor: George Pehlivanian

    26. Adagio -

      Composer: Franz Liszt

      Ensemble: The Hague Residentie Orkest

      Performer: Louis Lortie

      Conductor: George Pehlivanian

    27. Presto -

      Composer: Franz Liszt

      Ensemble: The Hague Residentie Orkest

      Performer: Louis Lortie

      Conductor: George Pehlivanian

    28. Allegro

      Composer: Franz Liszt

      Ensemble: The Hague Residentie Orkest

      Performer: Louis Lortie

      Conductor: George Pehlivanian


Reviews of some of the original recordings that make up this set.

Fantasia on a Theme from Beethoven's Ruins of Athens, Grande Fantasie symphonique on Themes from Berlioz's Lelio
These are exuberant performances, overflowing with arch character and impish brio. Lortie doesn't merely phrase responsively; he deftly teases and articulates, so that even routine passage-work lifts into scintillant repartee, wittily met by Pehiavanian and The Hague Residentie Orchestra. For salient instance, this is the first time I've heard the young Liszt's hilariously slapdash, formally sprawling Lelio Fantasy actually . . . fantasticated. Leslie Howard's fine, sympathetic go at it with Karl Anton Rickenbacher and the Budapest Symphony (Hyperion CDA67401/2, 22:5), to take perhaps the most challenging comparison, seems literal and earnest after this nuance-rife take, couching coruscating roguery in feathery exquisiteness. Nor do Howard's broader tempos—timing in at 29:44 against Lortie's fleet 24:06—help to put this overlong jeu across. Chez Lortie and Pehiavanian, on the other hand, it is no longer a mere curiosity but a grandly empurpled Byronic narrative. Similar comparisons could be drawn piece by piece, but suffice it to say that in brilliant contrast to the workmanlike note-spinning that too often overtakes such ambitious intégrales, these artists approach music-making as a form of merrymaking, animating everything with irresistible verve. Sound is transparently immediate in a spacious aural frame. Enthusiastically recommended.

Adrian Corleonis, Fanfare [9/2000]

Piano Concertos
Volume 3 triumphantly concludes Louis Lortie's Chandos cycle of Liszt's works for piano and orchestra. Once again his mastery is as fluent as it is scintillating. Less heartstopping or intense than his finest rivals in the two concertos (Richter and Zimerman, and Argerich in No 1 only) his occasional distance lends enchantment, and his aristocratic brilliance brings a special distinction to pages inviting heaviness and theatricality. Listen to him unbending winsomely at 1.24" in the First Concerto or tossing aside the Allegro vivace with an almost winged bravura, and at 045" in the cadenza from the Second Concerto he shows a poetry and inwardness rarely achieved in such overt showpieces.

He does all that is humanly possible with the Third Concerto, which received its premiere in 1990, yet even he, alive to moments of authentic Lisztian rhetoric, can do little to erase one's sense of music in urgent need of revision. Likewise the Concerto Pathetique, judiciously arranged from a variety of sources, storms and rants with the sort of self-conscious drama that often came too easily to Liszt; never more so than in the allguns-blazing Allegro trionfante conclusion. But again, the performance is exemplary, the recordings of demonstration quality with a sensible rather than spectacular balance, and George Pehlivanian and The Hague Residentie Orchestra prove themselves admirable partners, even when they are hardly maestoso at the start of the First Concerto. Altogether this has been a most distinguished series.

-- Bryce Morrison, Gramophone [5/2002]