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BaL 5.03.11 Liszt: Années de Pelerinage: Book 1 "Suisse"
Hot on the heels of Book 2, we have a second BAL devoted to performances of Liszt's musical images of Switzerland, reviewed by Stephen Plaistow
1. Chapelle de Guillaume Tell
2. Au Lac de Wallenstadt
3. Pastorale
4. Au Bord d-une source
5. Orage
6. Valleé d'Obermann
7. Églogue
8. Le Mal du Payes
9. Les Cloches de Genêve
Some available versions:
Jando
Lortie
Korstick
Laplante
Novacek
Grimwood
Hough
Brendel
Tsuda
Fiorentino
Howard
Berman
Ciccolini
Last edited by Eine Alpensinfonie; 19-06-11 at 10:34.
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So much looking forward to this. Maybe my favourite Liszt. I've had Fiorentino for some decades!
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Oh Stephen Plaistow! - a PROPER broadcaster.
Yippee!
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AGREEDOriginally Posted by amateur51
Oh Stephen Plaistow! - a PROPER broadcaster.
Yippee!
Shame he's talking about Liszt though
I'll be listening with open ears and an open mind, naturally
Last edited by Caliban; 26-02-11 at 15:23.
"The isle is full of noises... Sounds, and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not"
The Tempest, Act III scene 2 ll 148-9
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My one and only Book 1 is an old HMV Concert Classics LP by Edith Farnadi, though it's marked as 'A Westminster recording'. It got good notices somewhere back in an early Penguin IIRC. It came off a porter's-barrow stand at the West Somerset Railway for 50p and surprised me by being very playable.
That's the nice thing about buying records from charities and other worthy fund-seekers: if the LP's unplayable at least you've donated, but you may in addition get something that fills a gap in the library
Well, that's my excuse
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Mrs Roehre doesn't either. So that makes two of us suffering LMPWell, that's my excuse
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This is Liszt that I have been familiar with for longer than most, having played "Au Lac de Wallenstadt" for Grade 8, back in 1967. I played this and two others - "Chapelle de Guillaume Tell" & "Les Cloches de Genêve" - as part of my "finals" recital. But they were not the most challenging at all; "Orage" and "Valleé d'Obermann" are in a different league, the latter being amongst Liszt's finest, in my opinion. I have Bolet's version. Although it won a Gramophone Award, I'm sure there must be better versions.
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Although I'll be listening to this BAL, I suggest it shows a lack of imagination akin to the Mozartfest in having a second BAL on Années de Pelerinage withing such a short time. Having said that, I do recommend these pieces to anyone who isn't familiar with them.
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Such joy, this BAL.
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Agreed. So well constructed and easy to follow.
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