Louis Kentner - The Pioneering Liszt Recordings Volume 2 - APR: APR5614 - CD or download

Kentner, a 'great-grandpupil' of the composer, offers Liszt that is aristocratic and technically exquisite - La leggierezza and La campanella as light as sound itself. Colour and sonority are... — BBC Music Magazine, August 2009, More…

Release Date: 1st Jun 2009
Catalogue No: APR5614
Label: APR
Length: 76 minutes

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Excerpt, Liszt: Soirées de Vienne, 9 valses-caprices (after Schubert), S427

9:11

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Louis Kentner (piano)
Recorded: 17 July 1939
Recording Venue: Studio 3, Abbey Road, London, United Kingdom

Soirées de Vienne, S. 427: No. 6, Allegro con strepito (After F. Schubert)

9:11

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Excerpt, Liszt: Grandes Études de Paganini (6), S. 141

13:34

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Louis Kentner (piano)
Recorded: 27 January 1942
Recording Venue: Studio 3, Abbey Road, London, United Kingdom

Grandes études de Paganini, S. 141: No. 2 in E-Flat Major

5:54

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Grandes études de Paganini, S. 141: No. 3 in G-Sharp Minor "La campanella"

4:35

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Grandes études de Paganini, S. 141: No. 5 in E Major "La chasse"

3:05

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Excerpt, Liszt: Three Concert Studies, S144 / R5: Un lamento; La leggierezza; Un sospiro

4:48

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Louis Kentner (piano)
Recorded: 10 July 1939
Recording Venue: Studio 3, Abbey Road, London, United Kingdom

3 Études de concert, S. 144: No. 2 in F Minor "La Leggierezza"

4:48

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Excerpt, Liszt: Two Concert Studies, S145 / R6: Gnomenreigen; Waldesrauschen

3:20

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Louis Kentner (piano)
Recorded: 3 September 1941
Recording Venue: Studio 3, Abbey Road, London, United Kingdom

2 Concert Études, S. 145: No. 2, Gnomenreigen

3:20

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Excerpt, Liszt: Liebesträume, S541 Nos. 1-3

4:47

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Louis Kentner (piano)
Recorded: 03 September 1941
Recording Venue: Studio 3, Abbey Road, London, United Kingdom

Liebesträume, S. 541: No. 3, Nocturne in A-Flat Major

4:47

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Excerpt, Liszt: Transcendental Studies, S139 Nos. 1-12

4:04

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Louis Kentner (piano)
Recorded: 23 March 1937
Recording Venue: Studio 3, Abbey Road, London, United Kingdom

12 Études d'exécution transcendante, S. 139: No. 5 in B-Flat Major "Feux follets"

4:04

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Liszt: Deuxième Année de Pèlerinage - Italie, Venezia & Napoli

15:04

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Louis Kentner (piano)
Recorded: 30 March 1938
Recording Venue: Studio 3, Abbey Road, London, United Kingdom

Années de pèlerinage II, Supplément, S. 162 "Venezia e Napoli": No. 1, Gondoliera

5:48

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Années de pèlerinage II, Supplément, S. 162 "Venezia e Napoli": No. 3, Tarantella

9:16

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Liszt: Richard Wagner - Venezia, S201

3:24

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Louis Kentner (piano)
Recorded: 10 November 1951
Recording Venue: Studio 3, Abbey Road, London, United Kingdom

R.W. Venezia, S. 201

3:24

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Liszt: En rêve - Nocturne S207

2:26

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Louis Kentner (piano)
Recorded: 10 November 1951
Recording Venue: Studio 3, Abbey Road, London, United Kingdom

En rêve, S. 207 "Nocturne"

2:26

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Liszt: Csárdás macabre, S. 224

7:03

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Louis Kentner (piano)
Recorded: 10 November 1951
Recording Venue: Studio 3, Abbey Road, London, United Kingdom

Csárdás macabre, S. 224

7:03

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Liszt: Illustrations du Prophète de Meyerbeer, S. 414

8:48

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Louis Kentner (piano)
Recorded: 7 March 1939
Recording Venue: Studio 3, Abbey Road, London, United Kingdom

Illustrations du Prophète de Meyerbeer, S. 414: No. 2, Les patineurs. Scherzo

8:48

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Though Hungarian by birth, and having studied at the Franz Liszt Academy in Budapest, Louis Kentner, like so many others of Jewish origin, immigrated to London in the mid 1930s, aware that central Europe was not the best place to be at that time for someone of his race. He was to remain in London for the rest of his life, becoming very much part of British musical life both as pianist and, later, as teacher. His somewhat sensational London debut took place in the Aeolian Hall in October 1936 where he gave an all Liszt recital. As a direct result he was signed up by HMV and over the next fifteen years, in addition to much other repertoire, he made a large number of Liszt recordings which featured not only the often recorded etudes and Hungarian Rhapsodies but also premiere recordings of many of Liszt's more important, but then less well known, larger works. Our first APR title (APR5514) featured such unusual works as the Scherzo & March, the Berceuse and the first Polonaise; on the current disc, in addition to a number of the well known aforementioned etudes, we find a group of late pieces, including the bizarre Czárdás Macabre, which was only published in the year of its recording, and the Meyerbeer/Liszt 'Les Patineurs' scherzo. This later piece is one of Liszt's most brilliant operatic transcriptions, but is strangely little known. It is perhaps Kentner's most stunning recording and a fitting way to end this fascinating recital.

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August 2009

Kentner, a 'great-grandpupil' of the composer, offers Liszt that is aristocratic and technically exquisite - La leggierezza and La campanella as light as sound itself. Colour and sonority are magically imagined.

October 2009

…throughout you will hear playing of a peerless scintillation, patrician command and a poetic engagement known to few pianists.

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