Liszt: Dante Symphony, Künstlerfestzug; Tasso

Karabits and the Staatskapelle offer powerful and well-balanced accounts, taking the works on their own terms and drawing out the best they have to offer…In the Symphony’s Magnificat, the two... — BBC Music Magazine, April 2020, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Release Date: 17th Jan 2020
Catalogue No: AUDITE97760
Label: Audite
Length: 78 minutes

Presto Recording of the Week

24th January 2020
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April 2020

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Liszt: Künstlerfestzug zur Schillerfeier 1859, S114

Work length10:58

$3.00

$3.85

Staatskapelle Weimar
Kirill Karabits

Liszt: Tasso, Lamento e trionfo, symphonic poem No. 2, S96

Work length21:25

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Staatskapelle Weimar
Kirill Karabits

Liszt: Dante Symphony, S. 109

Work length46:36

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Staatskapelle Weimar, Knabenchor der Jenaer Philharmonie, Damen des Opernchores des Deutschen Nationaltheaters Weimar
Kirill Karabits, Berit Walther

I. Inferno

Track length21:03

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II. Purgatorio

Track length18:02

$4.00

$5.15

III. Magnificat

Track length7:31

$2.00

$2.60

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Recording of the Week, Liszt’s Dante Symphony plus a world-premiere recording from Kirill Karabits

24th January 2020

Kirill Karabits conducts the Staatskapelle Weimar in orchestral works by Liszt, including the world-premiere recording of the Künstlerfestzug zur Schillerfeier.

Continuing a much-acclaimed series of recordings: in the wake of Sardanapalo, Kirill Karabits and the Staatskapelle Weimar are devoting themselves for the first time to major works by Weimar's Kapellmeister-composer, Franz Liszt, with his Dante and Tasso. His Künstlerfestzug is a world-premiere recording.

Deep emotions and sombre laments, the torments of Hell and the radiance of Paradise, and the sounds of celebration: the Staatskapelle Weimar and Kirill Karabits are continuing their partnership on the audite label with Franz Liszt's symphonic poem Tasso: Lamento e Trionfo, his Symphony to Dante's Divina Commedia and a world-premiere recording on CD his Künstlerfestzug zur Schillerfeier. Their three previous releases have all been acclaimed by the press. The works that Liszt wrote for the Weimar Hofkapelle in the 1850s are the very embodiment of a Romantic ideal, combining literature, philosophy and the visual arts to create emotionally intense music that is turned both towards tradition and to the future.

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April 2020

Karabits and the Staatskapelle offer powerful and well-balanced accounts, taking the works on their own terms and drawing out the best they have to offer…In the Symphony’s Magnificat, the two choruses step aboard and soar, as if a natural part of the orchestra. Recorded sound is warm and pleasing.

July/August 2020

Karabits is a master of both the affect and the effect. His control over the orchestra is ironclad. Passages in unison, where a string section, violas or cellos, play by themselves, they are so together they sound less like multiple players than like a single player amplified to sound like many. It takes meticulous rehearsal and precise direction from the podium for an orchestra to play and sound like that...it’s the best orchestral disc of the year I’ve heard, and it may be hard, if not impossible, to beat.

24th January 2020

Given the provenance of the orchestra, it is appropriate that all three pieces here were written whilst Liszt was living in Weimar...As pieces written for gala processions of artists go, I must say I found [the Künstlerfestzug] surprisingly interesting: it opens pretty much as expected, with crashing chords and brass fanfares, but I was pleased that Karabits keeps it light enough that it never tips over into tedious pomposity.

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Recording of the Week, Liszt’s Dante Symphony plus a world-premiere recording from Kirill Karabits

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