Liszt: Funérailles - 3 Sonetti del Petrarca - Saint-Saëns: Danse macabre - Ravel: Gaspard de la nuit
11/6/2012, 10 Tracks, 1:13:45
Featuring
Yevgeny Sudbin
Franz Liszt
Maurice Ravel
Camille Saint-Saëns
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Recording & Production
This Hybrid SACD recording aims to reproduce the natural sound of a concert venue using 5.0 Surround sound, with all five channels recorded using the full frequency range.
Performer Biography
Pianist Yevgeny Sudbin, born in St Petersburg and living in the UK since 1997, has been hailed as 'one of the most important pianistic talents of our time' by International Record Review.
Composer's Artistic Vision
The album's program explores themes of 'Love, delirium and death,' with most pieces originally inspired by literary works.
Compositional Technique
Ravel's Le Gibet features a repeated B flat bell tolling over 200 times, creating a dense musical horror story often notated on three staves.
Composer Biography
Franz Liszt, a pioneer in piano playing, was also one of the first great travelers, with accounts of his extensive European tours between 1838-48.
Cultural Impact
Saint-Saëns' Danse macabre, based on a French superstition about Death playing a fiddle on Halloween, has become a popular soundtrack in movies and TV.
Composition History
Liszt's Funérailles, subtitled 'October 1849,' is an elegy written in memory of Hungarians who died in the uprising against Habsburg Rule.
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