Kenneth Hamilton Plays Liszt, Volume Two: Salon and Stage

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Hamilton lavishes as much care and technical brilliance on the smaller, more intimate pieces...as he does the spectacular, larger-scale ones...his ability to combine pianistic flair and technical... — Sunday Times, 30th July 2023, 5 out of 5 stars More…

Release Date: 14th Jul 2023
Catalogue No: PFCD210
Label: Prima Facie
Length: 2 hours 26 minutes

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Liszt: Ouvertüre zu R Wagners Tannhäuser S442

Work length15:25

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Kenneth Hamilton (piano)

Liszt: O du, mein holder Abendstern - Rezitativ und Romanze aus Tannhäuser S444

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Liszt: Soirées de Vienne: valse-caprice No. 6 (after Schubert), D427 No. 6

Work length10:02

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Liszt: Ständchen - Leise flehen meine Lieder (No. 7a from Schwanengesang, S560, after Schubert)

Work length5:39

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Liszt: Am stillen Herd – Lied aus Richard Wagners "Meistersinger", S448

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Liszt: Löse, Himmel, meine Seele (Lassen) (second version), S494ii

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Liszt: Ich weil' in tiefer Einsamkeit (Lassen), S495

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Kenneth Hamilton (piano)

Liszt: Mendelssohn Sieben Lieder S547: Auf Flugeln des Gesanges

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Kenneth Hamilton (piano)

Liszt: Spinnerlied aus Der fliegende Holländer S440

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Kenneth Hamilton (piano)

Liszt: Hymne á Sainte Cécile de Charles Gounod, S491

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Kenneth Hamilton (piano)

Liszt: Polonaise Aus Tschaikowskys Oper Jewgeny Onegin S429

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Kenneth Hamilton (piano)

Liszt: Dantes Sonett 'Tanto gentile e tanto onesta' (Bülow), S479

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Kenneth Hamilton (piano)

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

Work length7:07

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Kenneth Hamilton (piano)

Liszt: Illustrations De L'opera L'africaine S415

Work length9:15

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Kenneth Hamilton (piano)

Liszt: Aida Di Verdi - Danza Sacra e Duetto Finale S436

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Kenneth Hamilton (piano)

Liszt: Liebestraum, S541 No. 1 (Nocturne in A flat major)

Work length6:00

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Liszt: Liebestraum, S541 No. 2 (Nocturne in E flat major)

Work length3:32

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Liszt: Liebestraum, S541 No. 3 (Nocturne in A flat major)

Work length4:06

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Kenneth Hamilton (piano)

Liszt: Ernani '[Deuxième] Paraphrase de Concert', S432

Work length7:19

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Kenneth Hamilton (piano)

Liszt: Geheimes Flüstern hier und dort (No. 10 from 10 Lieder von Robert und Clara Schumann, S569)

Work length2:48

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Kenneth Hamilton (piano)

Liszt: Valse De L'opera Faust S407

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Kenneth Hamilton (piano)

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Prima Facie presents Salon and Stage, the second volume of Kenneth Hamilton's internationally acclaimed Liszt series. In contrast to the first album, Death and Transfiguration, this recording offers a life-enhancing selection of virtuoso transcriptions from song and opera. But it happily shares with its predecessor Hamilton's passion for these pieces. He has sought out Liszt's oft-ignored recommendations on their interpretation and studied the reminiscences and recordings of his students. He has, in effect, tried to think like a Liszt pupil, and to immerse himself in a performance tradition that goes well beyond the printed text.

His rendition of Schubert's haunting "Leise flehen meine Lieder", for example, includes a captivating cadenza composed by the elderly Liszt forty years after first arranging the song. His Soiree de Vienne no.6 features piquant revisions written for Sophie Menter, Liszt's favourite female student; while his touchingly unsentimental performance of the famous third Liebestraum adopts authentic variants passed down by Frederick Lamond, one of Liszt's very last pupils, and is played with an attentive ear to the composer's own advice on interpretation.

Hamilton's approach has met with truly rewarding critical resonance. For Andrew Clements (The Guardian) Volume 1 was "liberating and totally refreshing". Jeremy Nicholas (Gramophone) wrote, "I cannot recommend this release too highly". Guido Krawinkel (Klassik Heute) commented, "without too much overloaded ballast, the music, immaculately realized, takes centre stage", while David McDade (Music Web International) concluded, "Just as I was beginning to despair of ever hearing Liszt that really set the heart racing, along comes Kenneth Hamilton". The release was among the Gramophone Best Classical Albums of 2022, a BBC Radio 3 Record Review Recording of the Week, and a Music Web International Recommended Recording.

Described by the Moscow Kommersant as "an outstanding virtuoso - one of the finest players of his generation", by Tom Service in The Guardian as "pianist, author, lecturer and all-round virtuoso", and by Stefan Pieper in Klassik Heute as a "pianist, scholar, radical thinker and philosopher", Kenneth Hamilton is well known as a recitalist and recording artist of emotional depth and striking originality. His CDs have attracted both critical acclaim and a large number of listeners worldwide.

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PFCD167 Kenneth Hamilton play Liszt, Vol. 1: Death and Transfiguration

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30th July 2023

Hamilton lavishes as much care and technical brilliance on the smaller, more intimate pieces...as he does the spectacular, larger-scale ones...his ability to combine pianistic flair and technical brilliance with an acute understanding of how this music came into existence makes these performances very special indeed.

Kenneth Hamilton Plays Liszt, Volume Two: Salon and Stage

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