Liszt - Jorge Bolet – Piano Works = Œuvres Pour Piano = Klavierwerke 8CD Box Set

Liszt - Jorge Bolet – Piano Works = Œuvres Pour Piano = Klavierwerke

This innovative program of Liszt piano works shows the different faces of this towering musical genius: “Liszt the priest” is represented in works with a religious character or reference: the mighty B.A.C.H Fantasy & Fugue and the “Weinen, Klagen, Sorgen, Zagen” Variations, two works of immense proportions and drama, in which the chromaticism is extended to its limits. The “Jeux d’eaux à la Villa d’Este” is a late work in which Liszt lets the holy water pour and glitter in heavenly light. “Liszt the devil” is represented by the famous Mephisto Waltz No. 1, with its devilish laughter and fiendish virtuosity. “Liszt the Visionary” is represented by the four Valses Oubliées, short works with future looking harmonies and eerie melodies. The four Valses are not played in a row but are placed between each “big” piece, as a welcome relaxation after their tension and drama.

Tyler Hay’s Liszt recital ranges over the composer’s protean output. It opens with the Gothic splendour and intricate counterpoint of the Fantasy and Fugue on B-A-C-H but immediately continues in the much more intimate and elusive idiom of the first of the Valses oubliées, which are dispersed like hidden treasure throughout the album. Composed between 1881 and 1885, the Valses are fully representative examples of a ‘late style’ in Liszt, reflective mood-paintings that shift between pensiveness, esignation, and reverie. More extrovert works are interleaved with them. Tyler Hay plays Les jeux d’eaux à la Villa d’Este, the shimmering masterpiece of tone-colour from the second book of the Années de pèlerinage. There is also the pianistic thunder and lightning of the First Mephisto Waltz, and the D flat major First Ballade, before a return to Gothic grandeur and Bach with the Variations on ‘Weinen, Klagen, Sorgen, Zagen’. Tyler Hay closes this assured debut recital, appropriately enough, with a farewell: the Abschied which is a setting of a Russian folksong supplied to Liszt by his pupil Alexander Siloti: a model of quiet simplicity and one of the composer’s most touching miniatures.

Tracklist:
- 1 -
1. Bolet, Jorge - Ungarische Rhapsodie Fuer Klavier N
2. Bolet, Jorge - Liebestraum Nr. 3 As-Dur Op. 62
3. Bolet, Jorge - Mephisto-Walzer Nr. 1 (Tanz In Der
4. Bolet, Jorge - Harmonies Poetiques Et Religieuses
5. 7. Les Funerailles
6. Bolet, Jorge - Konzert-Paraphrase Ueber Das Quarte
7. Bolet, Jorge - Etudes D'execution Transcendante D'
8. 3. La Campanella
- 2 -
1. Bolet, Jorge - Schubert-Lieder (Transkriptionen):
2. Bolet, Jorge - Schubert-Lieder (Transkriptionen):
3. Bolet, Jorge - Wohin? (Schubert-Transkription)
4. Bolet, Jorge - Lebewohl! (Schubert-Transkription)
5. Bolet, Jorge - Das Wandern (Schubert-Transkription
6. Bolet, Jorge - Der Lindenbaum (Schubert-Transkript
7. Bolet, Jorge - Horch, Horch, Die Lerch (Schubert-T
8. Bolet, Jorge - Schubert-Lieder (Transkriptionen):
9. Bolet, Jorge - Die Post (Schubert-Transkription)
10. Bolet, Jorge - Aufenthalt (Schubert-Transkription)
11. Bolet, Jorge - Lob Der Traenen (Schubert-Transkrip
12. Bolet, Jorge - Schubert-Lieder (Transkriptionen):
13. Bolet, Jorge - Wanderer-Fantasie Nach Schubert
14. 1. Allegro Con Fuoco
15. 2. Adagio
16. 3. Presto
17. 4. Allegro
- 3 -
1. Bolet, Jorge - Sonate Fuer Klavier H-Moll
2. 1. Lento Assai - Allegro Energico
3. 2. Andante Sostenuto
4. 3. Allegro Energico - Andante Sostenuto - Lento As
5. Bolet, Jorge - Impromptu (Nocturne) Fis- Dur
6. Bolet, Jorge - Liebestraeume
7. 1. Hohe Liebe
8. 2. Seliger Tod
9. 3. O Lieb, So Lang Du Lieben Kannst
10. Bolet, Jorge - Grand Galop Chromatique
- 4 -
1. Bolet, Jorge - Annees De P Lerinage
2. 1. Sposalizio (Deuxi Me Annee: Italie)
3. 2. Il Penseroso (Deuxi Me Annee: Italie)
4. 3. Canzonetta Del Salvator Rosa (Deuxi Me Annee: I
5. 4. Sonetto 47 Del Petrarca Benedetto Sia 'L Giorn
6. 5. Sonetto 104 Del Petrarca Pace Non Trovo (Deux
7. 6. Sonetto 123 Del Petrarca I' Vidi In Terra Ange
8. Apr S Une Lecture Du Dante (Deuxi Me Annee: Italie
- 5 -
1. 1. La Chapelle De Guillaume Tell (Premi Re Annee:
2. 2. Au Lac De Wallenstadt (Premi Re Annee: Suisse)
3. 3. Pastorale (Premi Re Annee: Suisse)
4. 4. Au Bord D'une Source (Premi Re Annee: Suisse)
5. 5. Orage (Premi Re Annee: Suisse)
6. 6. Vallee D'obermann (Premi Re Annee: Suisse)
7. 7. Eglogue Hirtengesang (Premi Re Annee: Suisse)
8. 8. Le Mal Du Pays (Premi Re Annee: Suisse)
9. 9. Les Cloches De Gen Ve Nocturne (Premi Re Annee:
- 6 -
1. Gondoliera (Venezia E Napoli)
2. Canzone (Venezia E Napoli)
3. Tarantella (Venezia E Napoli)
4. 4. Les Jeux D'eaux a La Villa D'este (Troisi Me an
5. Bolet, Jorge - Harmonies Poetiques Et Religieuses
6. 3. Benediction De Dieu Dans La Solitude
7. Bolet, Jorge - Ballade Fuer Klavier Nr. 2 H-Moll
- 7 -
1. Bolet, Jorge - Etudes D'execution Transcendante
2. Bolet, Jorge - 1. Prelude
3. Bolet, Jorge - 2. Molto Vivace
4. Bolet, Jorge - 3. Paysage
5. Bolet, Jorge - 4. Mazeppa
6. Bolet, Jorge - 5. Feux Follets
7. Bolet, Jorge - 6. Vision
8. Bolet, Jorge - 7. Eroica
9. Bolet, Jorge - 8. Wilde Jagd
10. 9. Ricodanza
11. Bolet, Jorge - 10. Allegro Agitato Molto
12. Bolet, Jorge - 11. Harmonies Du Soir
13. Bolet, Jorge - 12. Chasse-Neige
- 8 -
1. Bolet, Jorge - 2 Konzertetueden S. 145
2. 1. Waldesrauschen
3. 2. Gnomenreigen
4. Bolet, Jorge - 3 Konzertetueden S. 144
5. Bolet, Jorge - 1. Il Lamento. a Capriccio - Allegr
6. 2. La Leggierezza. a Capriccio - Quasi Allegretto
7. Bolet, Jorge - 3. Un Sospiro. Allegro Affettuoso
8. Bolet, Jorge - Consolations
9. Andante Con Molto
10. Un Poco Piu Mosso
11. Lento Placido
12. Quasi Adagio
13. Andantino
14. Allegretto Sempre Cantabile
15. Bolet, Jorge - Reminiscences De Don Juan (Mozart)

Label: Decca
Released: 2001