Liszt: Orchestral Works / Works for Piano and Orchestra - Michel Béroff / Gewandhaus-Orchester Leipzig / Kurt Masur

Liszt: Orchestral Works / Works for Piano and Orchestra - Michel Béroff / Gewandhaus-Orchester Leipzig / Kurt Masur

Liszt: Orchestral Works / Works for Piano and Orchestra - Michel Béroff / Gewandhaus-Orchester Leipzig / Kurt Masur
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Composer: Franz Liszt
Conductor: Kurt Masur
Orchestra: Gewandhaus-Orchester Leipzig
Performer: Michel Béroff
Edition: Music CD
Format: Box set, Import
CD Release Date: 2003-11-04
Music Label: EMI Classics
Soundtracks:
Music CD 1
  1. No.1 Ce Qu'On Entend Sur La Montagne After Hugo, S95
  2. No.2 Tasso: Lamento E Trionfo After Byron, S96
  3. No.3 Les Preludes After Lamartine, S97
  4. No.4 Orpheus, S98
Music CD 2
  1. No.5 Prometheus, S99
  2. No.6 Mazeppa After Hugo, S100
  3. No.7 Festklange, S101
  4. No.8 Heroide Funebre, S102
  5. Mephisto Waltz No.2, S111
Music CD 3
  1. No.9 Hungaria, S103
  2. No.10 Hamlet After Shakespeare, S104
  3. No.11 Hunnenschlacht After Kaulbach, S105
  4. No.12 Die Ideale After Schiller, S106
Music CD 4
  1. Die Wiege
  2. Der Kampf Um's Dasein
  3. Zum Grabe (Die Wiege Des Zukunftigen Lebens)
  4. I: Faust
  5. II: Gretchen
  6. III: Mephistopheles Schlusschor/Final Chorus/Choeur Final: Alles Vergangliche Ist Nur Ein Gleichnis
Music CD 5
  1. I: Der Nachtliche Zug
  2. II: Der Tanz In Der Dorfschenke (Mephisto Waltz No.1)
  3. I: Inferno
  4. II: Purgatorio
Music CD 6
  1. Allegro Maestoso
  2. Quasi Adagio
  3. Allegretto Vivace - Allegro Animato
  4. Allegro Marziale Animato
  5. Adagio Sostenuto Assai
  6. Allegro Agitato Assai
  7. Allegro Moderato
  8. Allegro Deciso
  9. Marziale Un Poco Meno Allegro
  10. Allegro Animato
  11. Schubert: Wanderer-Fantasie, D760, S366
  12. Weber: Polonaise Brillante 'L'Hilarite', J268, S367
Music CD 7
  1. Fantasie Uber Ungarische Volksmelodien, S123
  2. Fantasie Uber Motive Aus Beethovens 'Ruinen Von Athen', S122
  3. Grande Fantaisie Symphonique Sur Des Themes De 'Lelio' De Berlioz, S120
  4. Malediction, S121
  5. Totentanz, Paraphrase Uber 'Dies Irae', S126

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Free Music Review: Masur still the greatest Lisztian all these years later
Hit: 5 Stars

With new Liszt collections coming this century from Naxos' stable of conductors and the BBC Philharmonic under Gianandrea Noseda, it seems incredible that Masur's more than quarter-century old collection of the composer's tone poems and other music is still the best there is. But, compared to the other sets, his is still the best collection in terms of completeness and uniform playing and interpretation.

For those coming anew to the orchestral side of piano virtuoso Franz Liszt (1811-76), he was -- in addition to being the greatest keyboard virtuoso in history -- the creator of the tone poem format perfected in the romantic era by the likes of Dvorak, Tchaikovsky and others. Liszt, a visionary and revolutionary composer, expressed his religious and philosophical ideas about art in the tone poems.

Some, like Les Preludes, which presage what Liszt called the preludes of life, or From the Cradle to the Grave (Von der Wiege bis zum Grabe), express ideas about human existence. Others, like What One Hears on the Mountain (Ce qu'on entend sur la montagne) and Ideals (Die Ideale) demonstrate more of a philosophical bent. Literary and nationalist topics like his native Hungary (Hungaria), the Battle of the Huns (Hunnershclacht), Orpheus and Hamlet, show the broad spectrum of Liszt's emotional and artistic ideas conveyed through the tone poems.

The composer never wrote a true symphony. The two included in this package -- the so-called Faust and Dante symphonies -- are just as much tone poems as any other. These show Liszt's extension of sonata format, where devleopment sections can go on, seeemingly, forever and codas can be manipulated to essentially become secondary development sections. It all sounds like a rambling wreck whilen you're getting used to it but the looseleaf style succeeds in the more direct works like Les Preludes, Mazeppa, Battle of the Huns and Prometheus. The longer, more philosophical tone poems may take longer for an unitiatited listener to warm to. And some, like the various tone poems on death, are pretty deadly to everyone's ears.

Kurt Masur recorded this music around 1981 for EMI and these recordings have had many iterations through EMI and Musical Heritage Society, an American subscription service where I first became aware of Masur's mastery over this repertoire. To state succinctly why he succeeds where many others fail, I believe Masur's tendency to underplay the bomast and use relatively quick tempos works all the time. Conductors like Noseda, whose style is to blow up slow and fast sections at twice marked tempo, can inadvertently show off the sometimes latent (and sometime blatant) banality in the music. Under Masur, Liszt almost always sounds musical.

Depending on the version you acquire, the sound may seem a tad dated and you may need to fiddle a little with your controls to hear everything the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra has to offer. As the oldest orchestra in the Western world, this group has been around since the beginning of this music and they play well for Masur. The various vocal performers in this set also help out greatly. Anyone looking for a relatively complete overview of Liszt's historic tone poems can't find a better set than this one.
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Liszt: Orchestral Works / Works for Piano and Orchestra - Michel Béroff / Gewandhaus-Orchester Leipzig / Kurt Masur Poster

His creations have that rare combination of virtuosic brilliance and otherworldly beauty. He is Franz Liszt, and these are his greatest orchestral works, performed by Michel Beroff and the Gewandhaus-Orchester Leipzig under the direction of Kurt Masur: Piano Concertos Nos. 1 & 2; Hungaria; Mazeppa; Mephisto Waltz No. 2; Les Preludes; Orpheus; Hamlet; Tasso: Lamento e Trionfo; Die Idealale; Festklange , and much more-7 CDs of masterworks!

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