Pierre-Laurent Aimard: The Liszt Project

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This impressive double album is surely one of the most intelligent recorded contributions to the Liszt Bicentenary of 2011...Nothing in Aimard's performances is done for mere effect: throughout,... — BBC Music Magazine, February 2012, 5 out of 5 stars More…

Release Date: 19th Sep 2011
Catalogue No: 4779439
Label: Deutsche Grammophon
Length: 2 hours 25 minutes

Liszt: La Lugubre Gondola I, S200 No. 1

Work length5:05

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Pierre-Laurent Aimard (piano)
Recorded: 2011-05-21
Recording Venue: Vienna, Konzerthaus, Grosser Saal

Wagner: Eine Sonate für das Album von Frau Mathilde Wesendonck in As, WWV85

Work length10:32

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Pierre-Laurent Aimard (piano)
Recorded: 2011-05-21
Recording Venue: Vienna, Konzerthaus, Grosser Saal

Liszt: Nuages gris, S199

Work length3:02

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Pierre-Laurent Aimard (piano)
Recorded: 2011-05-21
Recording Venue: Vienna, Konzerthaus, Grosser Saal

Berg: Piano Sonata, Op. 1

Work length8:36

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Pierre-Laurent Aimard (piano)
Recorded: 2011-05-21
Recording Venue: Vienna, Konzerthaus, Grosser Saal

Liszt: Unstern: sinistre disastro S208

Work length6:03

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Pierre-Laurent Aimard (piano)
Recorded: 2011-05-21
Recording Venue: Vienna, Konzerthaus, Grosser Saal

Scriabin: Piano Sonata No. 9, Op. 68 'Black Mass'

Work length8:36

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Pierre-Laurent Aimard (piano)
Recorded: 2011-05-21
Recording Venue: Vienna, Konzerthaus, Grosser Saal

Liszt: Piano Sonata in B minor, S178

Work length31:17

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Pierre-Laurent Aimard (piano)
Recorded: 2011-05-21
Recording Venue: Vienna, Konzerthaus, Grosser Saal

Lento assai - Allegro energico - Grandioso

Track length5:29

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Cantando espressivo -

Track length6:43

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Andante sostenuto - Quasi Adagio

Track length8:02

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Allegro energico - Stretta quasi Presto - Presto - Prestisssimo - Andante sostenuto - Allegro moderato - Lento assai

Track length11:03

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Excerpt, Liszt: Années de pèlerinage, 3ème année (7 pieces), S. 163

Work length6:10

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Pierre-Laurent Aimard (piano)
Recorded: 2011-05-21
Recording Venue: Vienna, Konzerthaus, Grosser Saal

2. Aux cyprès de la Villa d'Este No. 1 (Thrénodie)

Track length6:10

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Bartók: 4 Dirges, BB 58, Sz. 45 (Op. 9a)

Work length3:11

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Pierre-Laurent Aimard (piano)
Recorded: 2011-05-21
Recording Venue: Vienna, Konzerthaus, Grosser Saal

4. Assai andante

Track length3:11

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Liszt: Saint francois d'assise la predication aux oiseaux

Work length10:33

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Pierre-Laurent Aimard (piano)
Recorded: 2011-05-21
Recording Venue: Vienna, Konzerthaus, Grosser Saal

Stroppa: Miniature estrose 1st Book

Work length9:33

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Pierre-Laurent Aimard (piano)
Recorded: 2011-05-21
Recording Venue: Vienna, Konzerthaus, Grosser Saal

Tangatu manu

Track length9:33

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Excerpt, Liszt: Années de pèlerinage, 3ème année (7 pieces), S. 163

Work length8:02

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$1.15

Pierre-Laurent Aimard (piano)
Recorded: 2011-05-21
Recording Venue: Vienna, Konzerthaus, Grosser Saal

4. Les jeux d'eau à la Villa d'Este

Track length8:02

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Ravel: Jeux d'eau

Work length6:03

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Pierre-Laurent Aimard (piano)
Recorded: 2011-05-21
Recording Venue: Vienna, Konzerthaus, Grosser Saal

Messiaen: Catalogue d'Oiseaux Book 2

Work length13:35

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Pierre-Laurent Aimard (piano)
Recorded: 2011-05-21
Recording Venue: Vienna, Konzerthaus, Grosser Saal

4. Le Traquet stapazin

Track length13:35

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Excerpt, Liszt: Années de pèlerinage, 1ère année, Suisse (9 pieces), S. 160

Work length15:40

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Pierre-Laurent Aimard (piano)
Recorded: 2011-05-21
Recording Venue: Vienna, Konzerthaus, Grosser Saal

6. Vallée d'Obermann

Track length15:40

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Pierre-Laurent Aimard honours Franz Liszt’s 200th birthday (October 22, 1811) with his most ambitious recording for Deutsche Grammophon to date. In this extensive 2-CD set, Aimard juxtaposes a selection of Liszt’s works with compositions by Liszt’s contemporaries and successors who were inspired by the Hungarian composer. Recorded live in Vienna’s Konzerthaus over two evenings, Pierre-Laurent Aimard’s Liszt project is a pinnacle of the Liszt Year commemorations.

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February 2012

This impressive double album is surely one of the most intelligent recorded contributions to the Liszt Bicentenary of 2011...Nothing in Aimard's performances is done for mere effect: throughout, he projects Liszt with a solidity and refinement of invention. A superb achievement.

February 2012

Aimard is a supremely intellectual pianist and his intense, rigorously thought-out playing illuminates the two programmes...Aimard's approach is purposefully cool in order to highlight the structural elements of the piece and while there's some exquisite hushed playing, the thunderous climaxes don't build with quite enough abandon.

30th October 2011

Aimard has long established himself as the thinking person’s pianist. His Liszt Project juxtaposes a selection of Liszt’s works with compositions by contemporaries and successors who were inspired by him...It’s a strong idea, sustained by the Frenchman’s fastidious pianism, but it comes across more as a lecture-recital than a satisfying listening experience.

December 2011

In the main, the later the Liszt the more impressive Aimard is...he is ideally persuasive that no composer stayed younger in his desire to make something new...Aimard's reading of the B minor Sonata is distinguished - intellectually satisfying, as it should be, as the most intelligent and far-reaching of all post-Beethoven sonatas on a large scale.

16th October 2011

There’s intelligent method in this two-disc mega-recital...Disc two ingeniously pairs four works from Liszt’s Années de pèlerinage collections with descriptive pieces by Bartok, Marco Stroppa, Ravel and Messiaen, highlighting poetic, formal, textural and gestural similarities galore. Aimard’s readings are characterised by a clarity that allows detail and shape rightful pre-eminence.

16th October 2011

Bombarded as we are by Liszt recordings in his anniversary year, this is refreshingly different. Pianist Pierre-Laurent Aimard is also a skilled maker of programmes...Since large quantities of Liszt in one sitting can be indigestible, this is an excellent way into the B minor sonata and sections of Années de pèlerinage.

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