Hungarian Rhapsody, No.18
Two Csardas
‘Les jeux d’eaux a la Villa d’Este’ from Annees de Pelerinage III
Concert Paraphrase after Verdi’s Rigoletto
Venezia e Napoli from Annees de Pelerinage II
Liebestraum No.3 – Notturno

Schubert arr. Liszt - Soirees de Vienne – Valse Caprice No.6, Erlkönig

Mozart arr.Liszt - Confutatis Maledictus & Lacrimosa from Requiem K626

Wagner arr.Liszt - Liebestod from Tristan und Isolde, Fantasy after motifs from Rienzi ‘Santo Spirito Cavaliere’

Dejan Lazić on this, his first album for ONYX, pays tribute to a composer and his legacy as a piano virtuoso, organist, improviser, arranger, conductor, teacher, author, philanthropist, and traveller. Liszt lived life to the full, and this recital captures that love of life, his genius as a pianist and composer, a traveller with a restless and curious mind. Liszt’s respect for the music of other composers is to be found in his arrangements for piano of orchestral, operatic and other vocal works. From Wagner’s operas to Schubert Lieder via Beethoven Symphonies, his deep love and respect for the music is to found in his extraordinary arrangements for his own instrument. Such arrangements gave this music a wider audience in both the salons and domestic settings. .

‘Embarking on a recording project like this obviously required a substantial amount of preparation time. But once the date has come it was of a tremendous importance to capture and to honour the spontaneity of Liszt’s versatile, eclectic, and revolutionary genius’ writes Dejan in his introduction to the recital.

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The recording was captured at a live performance at Hohenhems, and one further day in studio conditions.