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Schubert/Liszt: Schwanengesang / Cakmur
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Schubert/Liszt: Schwanengesang / Cakmur

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Composer
LISZT SCHUBERT
Artist
Can Cakmur
Format
SACD
Label
BIS
Released
Oct 02, 2020
Catalog #
BIS-2530
UPC
7318599925301

About

Franz Liszt’s arrangement of Schubert’s Schwanengesang is very much his own work: while it very clearly retains the musical meaning of the original it also provides a vision of Liszt’s understanding of what lies beyond the black dots on paper. In the young Turkish pianist Can Çakmur’s words, Liszt’s ‘songs without words’ are ‘striking, horrifying, grand, intimate, full of life and yet often as pale as death. The marvel of what a single instrument can attain plays an integral role in all these pieces.’ Published posthumously, Schwanengesang is a collection of songs that Schubert may have intended to be grouped together, but if so he never provided a definitive order. In his arrangement, Liszt adopted an order of his own, and Çakmur takes the same liberty, seeking ‘to arrive at a sequence which presents not a storyline but an emotional journey. Liebesbotschaft and Taubenpost constitute the prelude and the conclusion to the cycle: the one focusing on the poet’s promise to return to his lover while the other embraces longing with glistening tears. Longing (Sehnsucht) is the very feeling that drives the cycle, for it carries both hope and disappointment within itself.’ The Liszt arrangement was first published in 1840, twelve years after Schubert’s death, and Çakmur contrasts it here with the much later ‘forgotten waltzes’, Quatre Valses oubliées. As most of Liszt’s late music they are elusive, and Çakmur describes them as ‘possibly wistful, sardonic or melancholic – or perhaps all at once.’ Winner of the 2018 Hamamatsu International Piano Competition, Can Çakmur released his début album in 2019, receiving praise for his technical prowess and sensibility alike – qualities that come well in hand for his new Liszt recital.

Tracklist 18 tracks

  1. 1 No. 10. Liebesbotschaft 03:27
    Track
    1
    Title
    No. 10. Liebesbotschaft
    Duration
    03:27
    Composer
    Franz Liszt
    Performer
    Can Çakmur
  2. 2 No. 14. Kriegers Ahnung 06:14
    Track
    2
    Title
    No. 14. Kriegers Ahnung
    Duration
    06:14
    Composer
    Franz Liszt
    Performer
    Can Çakmur
  3. 3 No. 8. Ihr Bild 02:42
    Track
    3
    Title
    No. 8. Ihr Bild
    Duration
    02:42
    Composer
    Franz Liszt
    Performer
    Can Çakmur
  4. 4 No. 9. Frühlingssehnsucht 02:29
    Track
    4
    Title
    No. 9. Frühlingssehnsucht
    Duration
    02:29
    Composer
    Franz Liszt
    Performer
    Can Çakmur
  5. 5 No. 5. Abschied 05:26
    Track
    5
    Title
    No. 5. Abschied
    Duration
    05:26
    Composer
    Franz Liszt
    Performer
    Can Çakmur
  6. 6 No. 6. In der Ferne 06:31
    Track
    6
    Title
    No. 6. In der Ferne
    Duration
    06:31
    Composer
    Franz Liszt
    Performer
    Can Çakmur
  7. 7 No. 7. Ständchen, "Leise flehen meine Lieder" 05:46
    Track
    7
    Title
    No. 7. Ständchen, "Leise flehen meine Lieder"
    Duration
    05:46
    Composer
    Franz Liszt
    Performer
    Can Çakmur
  8. 8 No. 11. Der Atlas 02:38
    Track
    8
    Title
    No. 11. Der Atlas
    Duration
    02:38
    Composer
    Franz Liszt
    Performer
    Can Çakmur
  9. 9 No. 2. Das Fischermädchen 03:22
    Track
    9
    Title
    No. 2. Das Fischermädchen
    Duration
    03:22
    Composer
    Franz Liszt
    Performer
    Can Çakmur
  10. 10 No. 4. Am Meer 04:02
    Track
    10
    Title
    No. 4. Am Meer
    Duration
    04:02
    Composer
    Franz Liszt
    Performer
    Can Çakmur
  11. 11 No. 3. Aufenthalt 03:12
    Track
    11
    Title
    No. 3. Aufenthalt
    Duration
    03:12
    Composer
    Franz Liszt
    Performer
    Can Çakmur
  12. 12 No. 1. Die Stadt 02:45
    Track
    12
    Title
    No. 1. Die Stadt
    Duration
    02:45
    Composer
    Franz Liszt
    Performer
    Can Çakmur
  13. 13 No. 12. Der Doppelgänger 04:29
    Track
    13
    Title
    No. 12. Der Doppelgänger
    Duration
    04:29
    Composer
    Franz Liszt
    Performer
    Can Çakmur
  14. 14 No. 13. Die Taubenpost 05:08
    Track
    14
    Title
    No. 13. Die Taubenpost
    Duration
    05:08
    Composer
    Franz Liszt
    Performer
    Can Çakmur
  15. 15 Valse oubliée No. 1 03:21
    Track
    15
    Title
    Valse oubliée No. 1
    Duration
    03:21
    Composer
    Franz Liszt
    Performer
    Can Çakmur
  16. 16 Valse oubliée No. 2 06:58
    Track
    16
    Title
    Valse oubliée No. 2
    Duration
    06:58
    Composer
    Franz Liszt
    Performer
    Can Çakmur
  17. 17 Valse oubliée No. 3 05:40
    Track
    17
    Title
    Valse oubliée No. 3
    Duration
    05:40
    Composer
    Franz Liszt
    Performer
    Can Çakmur
  18. 18 Valse oubliée No. 4 03:36
    Track
    18
    Title
    Valse oubliée No. 4
    Duration
    03:36
    Composer
    Franz Liszt
    Performer
    Can Çakmur