The Liszt Album

Franz Liszt (1811 - 1886)

The selection includes the popular Consolation No. 3, the flirtatious Valse-Impromptu, several transcriptions of songs by Mendelssohn and Schubert, a selection of Transcendental Etudes and concludes with Liszt's masterpiece, the Sonata in B minor.
 

1

Six Consolations, S172 (1844-50)
No. 3 in D-flat major (Lento placido)

2

Valse-Impromptu, S213 (1850-52)

3

7 Mendelssohn Lieder, S547
No. 1 'Auf Flugeln des Gesanges' (On Wings of Song)
after FELIX MENDELSSOHN (1809-1847), trans. Franz Liszt (1840)

4

Die Forelle (The Trout), S564
after FRANZ SCHUBERT (1797-1828), trans. Franz Liszt (second version - 1846)

5

Schwanengesang, S560
No. 7 'Ständchen' (Serenade)
after FRANZ SCHUBERT, trans Franz Liszt (1838-9)

6

12 Lieder, S558
No. 2 'Auf dem Wasser zu singen' (To Sing on the Water)
after FRANZ SCHUBERT, trans Franz Liszt (1837-8)

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12 Etudes d'execution transcendante, S139 (1851)
No. 3 'Paysage' (Landscape)
No. 9 'Ricordanza' (Remembrance)
No. 12 'Chasse-neige' (Snow-drifts)

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Sonata in B minor, S178 (1853)
Lento assai - Allegro energico - Grandioso - Recitativo - Andante sostenuto- Quasi adagio - Allegro energico - Piu mosso - Stretta, quasi presto -Presto - Prestissimo - Andante sostenuto - Allegro moderato - Lento assai