IDAGIO | Liszt: Complete Piano Music 1

Featuring

Leslie Howard
Franz Liszt

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Critical Reception

A critical mythology has prevented the investigation and performance of many of Liszt's finest works for a century after his death.

Composition History

This album contains all of Liszt's complete original concert waltzes for piano, excluding juvenilia, a few album-leaves, early versions, and works based on other composers' music.

Performer Biography

Leslie Howard completed the Andantino for Liszt's Mephisto Waltz No. 4 in 1978 for the Liszt-Bartók cycle at La Scala, Milan, and dedicated this version to Alfred Brendel.

Composer's Artistic Vision

The four Valses oubliées, or 'Forgotten Waltzes', are wistful late works by Liszt that evoke images of past times and joys.

Compositional Technique

The Bagatelle sans tonalité, a piece without a clear tonal center, was originally intended to be the Fourth Mephisto Waltz.

Critical Reception

Liszt's waltzes are less frequently encountered in their entirety than Chopin's, possibly because the four Mephisto Waltzes are physically demanding to play consecutively.