You dislike his austere & mournful late works?
― pomenitul, Monday, 9 December 2019 19:42 (four years ago) link
(Unless you were specifically referring to From the Cradle to the Grave).
― pomenitul, Monday, 9 December 2019 19:44 (four years ago) link
wasn't very clear there -- there's a lot by him i've never heard, i like faust much more than whatever else i have heard
(and mostly heard a long time ago, so my mind is probably very changeable these days on stuff i disliked in my 20s)
― mark s, Monday, 9 December 2019 19:48 (four years ago) link
Then I hope you'll give him a second chance once we reach the 1880s.
― pomenitul, Monday, 9 December 2019 19:51 (four years ago) link
i'll make a liszt list encompassing all his eras once we get to the 1880s and try to keep it short
― valet doberman (Jon not Jon), Monday, 9 December 2019 20:51 (four years ago) link
So Liszt's very first published work was *his* variation on that theme of Diabelli's. Interesting. I'm enjoying spending quality time with his solo piano works, not least Harmonies poétiques et religieuses. I think the only Liszt I'd have previously said I know 'well' amounted to a few discs of tone poems, etc. (Shocking confession #647959)
― Nag! Nag! Nag!, Tuesday, 10 December 2019 07:15 (four years ago) link
Harmonies Poetiques is an awesome cycle. The benediction gets all the air time but pensees des morts is probably the highlight. I love the opening invocation as well. Brendel did not record the whole cycle but he did most of it and that’s probably my favorite recording of these pieces. Along with a late (1980s) Richter performance of pensees des morts which I assume is in print somewhere.
― valet doberman (Jon not Jon), Tuesday, 10 December 2019 12:09 (four years ago) link
Don't forget Funérailles! I love them all, though, including his rewriting of Allegri's Miserere.
― pomenitul, Tuesday, 10 December 2019 12:11 (four years ago) link
(adding: my youthful stance on liszt may well have been coloured by roger daltrey's portrayal of same, and the fact that i encountered said portrayal in a seaside cinema WITH MY PARENTS AND SISTER)
― mark s, Tuesday, 10 December 2019 13:40 (four years ago) link
It is understandable, roger daltrey is gross
― valet doberman (Jon not Jon), Tuesday, 10 December 2019 13:44 (four years ago) link
I haven't seen said film but was made aware of its inflammatory reputation at a young age, and it rubbed off on the conception I developed of its subject, whose music I subsequently discovered through the 1st Piano Concerto and its more flagrant bravura passages (I knew nothing of cyclical form at the time). Then I came across Nuages gris, La lugubre gondola, Unstern! Sinistre, disastro and RW – Venezia, all of which sounded like sealed-off mausoleums, to be reverberated into nothingness, completely overturning my vitalist understanding of his music in the process.
― pomenitul, Tuesday, 10 December 2019 13:55 (four years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.
― System, Wednesday, 11 December 2019 00:01 (four years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.
― System, Thursday, 12 December 2019 00:01 (four years ago) link
I suppose the turnout was to be expected. I wonder who voted for Brahms's 1st Piano Trio? Good piece, that.
― pomenitul, Thursday, 12 December 2019 08:51 (four years ago) link
That Brahms trio and the Brahms first concerto are both totally plausible choices
― valet doberman (Jon not Jon), Thursday, 12 December 2019 13:13 (four years ago) link
His third piano sonata kicks ass too, a young man’s Hammerklavier sonata of sorts
― valet doberman (Jon not Jon), Thursday, 12 December 2019 13:14 (four years ago) link