Liszt at the Opera

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Lortie's technique is not in question...But this music requires more than dedicated technique. When Liszt is in glitter mode...Lortie's sparkling and swarthy playing is impressively glamorous.... — BBC Music Magazine, December 2013, 3 out of 5 stars More…

Release Date: 30th Sep 2013
Catalogue No: CHAN10793
Label: Chandos
Length: 77 minutes

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Liszt: Ouvertüre zu Tannhäuser, S. 442

Work length15:36

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Louis Lortie
Recorded: 3, 4 March 2013
Recording Venue: Potton Hall, Dunwich, Suffolk, UK

Liszt: O du mein holder Abendstern, S. 444: I. Lento

Work length2:34

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Louis Lortie
Recorded: 3, 4 March 2013
Recording Venue: Potton Hall, Dunwich, Suffolk, UK

Liszt: O du mein holder Abendstern, S. 444: II.Romanze

Work length3:23

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Louis Lortie
Recorded: 3, 4 March 2013
Recording Venue: Potton Hall, Dunwich, Suffolk, UK

Liszt: Spinnerlied aus Der Fliegende Holländer, S. 440

Work length5:32

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Louis Lortie
Recorded: 3, 4 March 2013
Recording Venue: Potton Hall, Dunwich, Suffolk, UK

Liszt: Valse de l'opera Faust, S. 407

Work length9:32

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Louis Lortie
Recorded: 3, 4 March 2013
Recording Venue: Potton Hall, Dunwich, Suffolk, UK

Liszt: Concert Paraphrase on Rigoletto, S.434 after Verdi's opera

Work length7:44

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Louis Lortie
Recorded: 3, 4 March 2013
Recording Venue: Potton Hall, Dunwich, Suffolk, UK

Liszt: Réminiscences de "Don Juan" (after Mozart), S. 418

Work length15:07

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Louis Lortie
Recorded: 3, 4 March 2013
Recording Venue: Potton Hall, Dunwich, Suffolk, UK

I. Grave

Track length3:43

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II. Duetto

Track length2:51

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III. Variation I

Track length3:03

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IV. Variation II

Track length2:26

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V. Presto

Track length3:04

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Liszt: Tristan und Isolde: Act I. Prelude (Arr. for Piano)

Work length11:18

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Louis Lortie
Recorded: 3, 4 March 2013
Recording Venue: Potton Hall, Dunwich, Suffolk, UK

Liszt: Isolde's Liebestod (after Wagner), S447

Work length6:50

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Louis Lortie
Recorded: 3, 4 March 2013
Recording Venue: Potton Hall, Dunwich, Suffolk, UK

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In this new release, the exclusive Chandos artist and award-winning pianist Louis Lortie continues his exploration of piano works by Franz Liszt. His previous Liszt releases have been critically acclaimed, Gramophone describing his performance of the complete Années de Pèlerinage as ‘spellbinding’. Here Lortie turns his hand to the composer’s opera transcriptions and paraphrases, works that revolutionised composition for the piano with their unheralded technical innovation. The original works by Liszt based on Mozart’s Don Giovanni, Verdi’s Rigoletto, and Gounod’s Faust not only demonstrate the dazzling technical possibilities of the piano but reveal the unique and fascinating musical imagination with which Liszt transformed some of the best-known music in the operatic repertoire. Completing the disc are several more or less straightforward transcriptions based on operas by Richard Wagner who, despite a rocky start to their relationship, forged a close musical bond with Liszt. Among them is the popular transcription of the ‘Liebestod’ from Tristan und Isolde. Liszt never completed a transcription of its natural musical companion, the Prelude to the opera, so here Louis Lortie has recorded his own arrangement of it.

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December 2013

Lortie's technique is not in question...But this music requires more than dedicated technique. When Liszt is in glitter mode...Lortie's sparkling and swarthy playing is impressively glamorous. The problems come when a greater breadth and nobility is required...But then, Wagner's Liebestod is conveyed with an intensity missing elsewhere.

19th October 2013

A dollop of old-fashioned showmanship is required to make these concoctions as alluring as the originals and Louis Lortie has it in spades.

21st November 2013

as so often with Lortie, virtuosity is never an end in itself and he is often at his most subtly expressive when Liszt is at his most introverted and restrained. Had Liszt attempted a transcription of the Tristan Prelude, it would have been more ornate than Lortie's, but the latter is a beautiful piece of writing, played with intense sensuality.

New York Times 15th January 2014

some of the most dazzling and complex piano works of the 19th century. Louis Lortie, a fantastic Lisztian, performs them with confidence and clarity.

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