G. Henle URTEXT edition. Liszt wrote his two Ballades in 1845-49 and 1853 during a time of personal turmoil. The successful virtuoso increasingly saw himself as a composer who strove after formal clarity, as shown by the B minor sonata that was also composed in 1853. When Liszt began work on the first Ballade, he had just separated from his mistress of many years, Marie Comtesse d'Agoult. He called the first sketches for the work DerniŠres Illusions. A better-known work is the second Ballade in B...
Volume 15 of the Supplement Series presents an earlier version of the Concerto in a solo piano edition, along with earlier and alternate versions of Liszt original pieces and transcriptions. The paper and cloth editions have identical contents, but the cloth edition contains critical notes and commentary. This volume completes the initial phase of The New Liszt Edition. Series I: Works for Solo Piano (18 volumes), Series II: Free Arrangements and Transcriptions (24 volumes), and the Supplement to...
G. Henle URTEXT edition. These six little piano pieces are among Liszt's best-known works are are comparatively easy to play - a rarity among the composer's often eccentric and virtuosic works. In 1844 Liszt had already begun work on the cycle that was only published in 1850. Although he had the pieces engraved, this version was never actually printed. He replaced no. 3, a precursor to the first Hungarian Rhapsody, with a piece in the style of a nocturne by Chopin (it can occasionally be heard as...
Romantic. Presumably inspired by Charles Sainte-Beuve's collection of poems, this set of six pieces provides a wonderful introduction to Liszt's melodic invention, mood evocation and harmonic language. The most popular of his shorter works, these pieces are successful when performed individually as well as in various combinations. This edition contains Dr. Hinson's helpful pedal markings and performance suggestions. -the publisher
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Presumably inspired by Charles Sainte-Beuve's collection of poems, this set of six pieces provides a wonderful introduction to Liszt's melodic invention, mood evocation and harmonic language. The most popular of his shorter works, these pieces are successful when performed individually as well as in various combinations. This edition contains Dr. Hinson's helpful pedal markings and performance suggestions. Included is an outstanding CD recording from the Naxos label.
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In addition to his skills as a composer and performer, Liszt is famed for his genius in transcribing orchestral works for piano. Thanks to his efforts, pianists in the era before sound recordings could learn from the vast repertoire of orchestral, operatic, and vocal literature. This original collection offers modern-day pianists insights into Liszt's peerless gift for transferring sonorities from one medium to another as well as the opportunity to develop a deeper familiarity with several orches...
First versions of Hungarian Rhapsodies Nos. 12-21, along with two shorter Liszt pieces with a Hungarian connection, make up the 8th volume of the Supplement to the New Liszt Edition. All works in the volume appear here for the first time in a scholarly edition. As with all volumes of the New Liszt Edition, Supplement Volume 8 is published in a handsome paperback edition for performance and a clothbound edition for study. Both versions include a detailed preface, new research results, and manuscri...
Liszt understood a "rhapsody" to signify the highest degree of musical freedom: a constant process of transformation and variation of themes and motifs, all bound up with constant shifts of emotion. According to one of its early reviewers, this first of Liszt's 19 Hungarian Rhapsodies is a prime example of "the art of thematic working such as no previous master has practised more fantastically, more expressively or more inventively." Despite this, it was somewhat overshadowed by the greater popul...
Liszt's piano rhapsodies are in the same tradition as his transcriptions of opera or song themes, but in this case the point of departure is folk dances and songs. Liszt described no. 2 of his Hungarian Rhapsodies, published in 1851, as "truly Hungarian," and a "brilliant companion piece" to his own concert showpiece the Grand Galop chromatique. And indeed, the work, with its strong dynamic and harmonic contrasts, quickly became popular and remains among his best-loved keyboard works. The long-i...
G. Henle URTEXT edition. Edited by Ernst Hettrich. Fingering by Andreas Groethuysen. Preface by Maria Eckhardt. Liszt's ninth Rhapsody is the "Carnival at Pest" - one of the few Hungarian Rhapsodies to which he gave a name. Once again Liszt turns to Hungarian folk melodies and fuses them with improvisatory elements. The result is a dazzling virtuosic firework display. The relaxed atmosphere of a Budapest carnival around 1840 is brought to life - indeed Liszt is said to have recorded several theme...
G. Henle urtext edition. Edited by Ernst Herttrich. Preface by Maria Eckhardt. Fingering by Andreas Groethuysen. The Rakoczi march is often referred to as the "Hungarian Marseillaise". The beginnings of this march song go back to around 1730. In the text, the Hungarians summon Franz II Rakoczi to free his people from the Habsburg oppression. The melody has been arranged many times, e. g. by Brahms and Berlioz, even Liszt made several arrangements of varying degrees of difficulty. He eventually di...