Liszt, Schubert/Liszt, Weber/Liszt: Music for piano and orchestra, vol. 2

Leslie Howard (piano) & Budapest Symphony Orchestra, Karl Anton Rickenbacher

This set and its companion (CDA67401/2) are perhaps the most important releases in Leslie Howard's complete survey of Liszt's piano music. In addition to such well known works as the mature Piano Concertos (two of the most popular works in the nineteenth-century Romantic repertoire) and the other lesser known but familiar pieces, several items here receive their first recordings; as a result of Leslie Howard's indefatigable research we can now hear orchestral versions of Hexaméron and the Grand Solo de concert for the first time. Also in new versions are the recently discovered Concerto in E flat, Op posth, and De Profundis. A re-examination of the manuscripts has led our pianist to make refinements to the published scores which provide a more accurate reflection of Liszt's intentions. All these issues and more are documented in Leslie Howard's characteristically thorough notes.

Liszt:
 Carl Maria Von Weber Konzertstück In F Minor (Op 79, 1821)
 Concerto pathétique for Piano and Orchestra, S365a
 De profundis – Psaume instrumental pour orchestre et piano principal, S121a
 Fantasy on Hungarian Folk-tunes, S123
 Piano Concerto No. 2 in A major, S125
 Sophie Menter S714
 Totentanz, S126 for piano & orchestra
 Wandererfantasie (Schubert), S366

"Exemplary, and superbly recorded"
BBC Music Magazine *****

"Hyperion's production, as always, is superb. For the Lisztian, this is indispensable"
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