Michele Campanella plays Liszt’s Bechstein: Liszt Late Masterpieces

The piano's sound is slightly but tellingly different from today's cross-strung concert grand...The tone that results is mellow, more than powerful enough, and beautifully clear...Campanella... — BBC Music Magazine, December 2011, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Release Date: 25th Jul 2011
Catalogue No: 94148
Label: Brilliant Classics
Length: 78 minutes

Liszt: Historische ungarische Bildnisse, S. 205 / S. 205a

Work length29:57

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Michele Campanella (piano)

No. 1. Istvan Szechenyi

Track length3:15

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No. 2. Franz Deak

Track length2:37

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No. 3. Ladislaus Teleki

Track length4:11

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No. 4. Jozsef Eotvos

Track length2:43

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No. 5. Michael Vorosmarty

Track length4:44

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No. 6. Alexander Petofi

Track length5:26

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No. 7. Michael Mosonyi

Track length7:01

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Liszt: Sancta Dorothea, S187 / R73

Work length2:47

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Michele Campanella (piano)

Liszt: Carrousel de Mme P-N, S214a / R60b

Work length1:07

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Michele Campanella (piano)

Liszt: Resignazione (1877) R. 388, S. 263

Work length1:30

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Michele Campanella (piano)

Liszt: Romance oubliée, for piano, S. 527

Work length4:01

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Michele Campanella (piano)

Liszt: Toccata, S197a

Work length1:26

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Michele Campanella (piano)

Liszt: Schlaflos Frage und Antwort, S203

Work length3:12

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Michele Campanella (piano)

Liszt: En rêve - Nocturne S207

Work length2:12

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Michele Campanella (piano)

Liszt: In festo transfigurationis Domini nostri Jesu Christi, S188 / R74

Work length2:36

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Michele Campanella (piano)

Liszt: Receuillement, S204

Work length3:33

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Michele Campanella (piano)

Recuelliement, S204 / R86

Track length3:33

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Liszt: Am Grabe Richard Wagners, S202 (1883)

Work length2:35

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Michele Campanella (piano)

Liszt: Nuages gris, S199

Work length2:35

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Michele Campanella (piano)

Liszt: Valses oubliees (4) S215 / R37

Work length20:32

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Michele Campanella (piano)

Valse oubliee No. 1

Track length3:06

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Valse oubliee No. 2

Track length7:25

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Valse oubliee No. 3

Track length6:11

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Valse oubliee No. 4

Track length3:50

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Franz Liszt’s own Bechstein piano was donated to the Accademia Musicale Chigiana in Siena as a result of a warm friendship that struck up in 1938 between the owner of the piano, Roberto Almagia, and the founder of the Accademia, Count Guido Chigi Saracini.

Almagia had bought it for his wife, but she had since died, and he was so impressed with the Count, he felt instinctively that the Accademia was the right place for the piano. In addition,Almagia knew that Liszt had links with Siena, as he had stayed there with Wagner and his family. This is a remarkable recording of the Italian pianist Michele Campanella performing a selection of Liszt’s late works on this historic instrument, in the grand and sumptuous Liszt salon within the 14th century Palazzo Chigi Saracini, the home of the Accademia Musicale Chigiana.

This collection of Liszt’s late works reflects the composer’s feelings about old age, the virtuoso brilliance of his earlier works replaced by sparser textures and experimental harmonies, including the dark and glittering Valses Oubliées, the impressionistic Nuages Gris and En rève, and the series of musical memorials to Hungarian artists and statesmen, Historiche Ungarische Bildnisse. Michele Campanella is professor of piano at the Accademia. He is internationally known as one of the major interpreters of the Liszt repertoire, and was awarded the Grand Prix du Disque three years in a row by the Franz Liszt Academy in Budaest.

This fantastic Bechstein 247 is restored in 2010 in its original condition and now for the first time used for this first-class recording by Michele Campanella.

The repertoire maestro Campanella has chosen here fits perfectly with the sound of the piano, late works influenced by thoughts on death and the old age.

This piano was sent to Rome in 1860 were Liszt played it till he died in 1886. The piano was passed on to Liszt most famous pupil, Sgambati.

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December 2011

The piano's sound is slightly but tellingly different from today's cross-strung concert grand...The tone that results is mellow, more than powerful enough, and beautifully clear...Campanella generally opts for spacious tempos, giving the music room to speak, and excels in capturing its sequence of moods and sounds. A choice release to round out Liszt's bicentenary year.

Michele Campanella plays Liszt’s Bechstein

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