Liszt: Complete Piano Music Volume 1

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It's a phenomenal disc. — BBC Music Magazine, 1997 More…

Catalogue No: 8553852
Label: Naxos
Series: Liszt Complete Piano Music
Length: 70 minutes

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Liszt: Danse macabre (after Saint-Saëns), S555 / F240

Work length10:27

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Arnaldo Cohen (piano)
Recorded: 24-27 June 1996
Recording Venue: St. George's Hall, Bristol, England

Liszt: Nuages gris, S199

Work length3:07

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Arnaldo Cohen (piano)
Recorded: 24-27 June 1996
Recording Venue: St. George's Hall, Bristol, England

Nuages gris (Trube Wolken), S199 / R78

Track length3:07

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Liszt: Unstern: sinistre disastro S208

Work length5:59

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Arnaldo Cohen (piano)
Recorded: 24-27 June 1996
Recording Venue: St. George's Hall, Bristol, England

Liszt: Grande fantaisie sur des themes de Les Huguenots by Meyerbeer,S412 / R211, Reminiscences des Huguenots

Work length19:24

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Arnaldo Cohen (piano)
Recorded: 24-27 June 1996
Recording Venue: St. George's Hall, Bristol, England

Grande fantaisie sur des themes de l’opera Les Huguenots by Meyerbeer, S412 / R211, "Reminiscences des Huguenots"

Track length19:24

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Liszt: La Lugubre Gondola I, S200 No. 1

Work length4:58

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Arnaldo Cohen (piano)
Recorded: 24-27 June 1996
Recording Venue: St. George's Hall, Bristol, England

La lugubre gondola, S200 / R81 (1st version)

Track length4:58

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Liszt: La Lugubre Gondola II, S200 No. 2

Work length8:24

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Arnaldo Cohen (piano)
Recorded: 24-27 June 1996
Recording Venue: St. George's Hall, Bristol, England

La lugubre gondola, S200 / R81 (2nd version)

Track length8:24

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Liszt: Impromptu S191 1872

Work length3:30

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Arnaldo Cohen (piano)
Recorded: 24-27 June 1996
Recording Venue: St. George's Hall, Bristol, England

Liszt: Totentanz, S525 for solo piano

Work length15:09

$4.00

$5.15

Arnaldo Cohen (piano)
Recorded: 24-27 June 1996
Recording Venue: St. George's Hall, Bristol, England

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1997

It's a phenomenal disc.

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Arnaldo Cohen is as poetically and imaginatively intrepid as he's technically coruscating, and all these performances offer refinement and ferocity in equal proportion. Few pianists could identify or engage so closely with music that hovers on the edge of silence or extinction (Nuages gris, La lugubre gondola Nos-1 and 2), or that sparks and sports with a truly devilish intent (Danse macabre, Totentanz and so on). In the Danse macabre the music emerges from Cohen's fingers supercharged with malevolence. On the other hand he can send the F sharp Impromptu spiralling into a true sense of its ecstasy, or momentarily inflect Nuages gris in a manner that accentuates rather than detracts from its abstraction and economy. He makes something frighteningly bleak out of Unstern (or 'Evil Star'), with its savagely dissonant climax and its unresolved hymnal solace, yet is no less at home in Réminiscencesdes Huguenots, dismissing ambuscades of treacherous skips, octaves and every other technical terror with a telling mix of verve and nonchalance.
These, then, are performances of rare lucidity, virtuoso voltage and trenchancy, and all quite excellently recorded.

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