Hyperion: CDA66201/CDA67419. Leslie Howard, piano ; in part with assisting instrumentalists or ensembles. Recorded Oct. 24, 1985-Dec. 18, 1998. Volumes 1 and 2 (CDA66201, CDA66301) lack set titles and associated numbering; there were retrospectively incorporated into the set with revised title (cf. volume 44, program booklet, pages 18-19). Compact discs. Set accompanied by "Catalogue : Leslie Howard's recording of the complete piano music of Franz Liszt on Hyperion" (50 pages) which includes a list by recording volume number and a list based on the catalog by Humphrey Searle as revised by Sharon Winklhofer and by Michael Short and Leslie Howard. Program notes and notes on the performer in English with French and German translations included in each container.
Contents:
[1] Liszt waltzes -- [2] Ballades ; Legends ; Berceuse ; Impromptu ; Klavierstück ; Polonaises -- v. 3. Fantasie und Fuge ; Weinen, Klagen, Sorgen Zagen ; Variationen über das Motiv von Bach ; Trois odes funèbres ; Gosses Konzertsolo -- v. 4. Douze études d'exécution transcendante ; Mariotte : Valse de Marie ; Adagio in C ; Elégie sur des motifs du Pince Louis Ferdinand de prusse -- v. 5. Saint-Saëns, Chopin and Berlioz transcriptions -- v. 6. Liszt at the opera I (2 discs) -- v. 7. Harmonies poétiques et religieuses (2 discs) -- v. 8. Weihnachtsbaum ; Weihnachtslied ; Via crucis ; Choräle -- v. 9. Sonata in B minor ; Elégies, Consolations ; Gretchen ; Totentanz -- v. 10. Hexaméron ; Un portrait en musique ; Symphonie fantastique -- v. 11. The late pieces -- v. 12. Five Hungarian folksongs ; Historical Hungarian portraits ; Puszta Wehmuth ; Ungarns Gott ; Troisième année de pèlerinage -- v. 13. A la Chapelle Sixtine ; Six preludes and fugues ; Fantasia and fugue in G minor -- v. 14. Pieces from St. Elisabeth, Christus & St Stanislaus -- v. 15. Songs without words (2 discs) -- (CONT.) v. 16. Bunte Reihe -- v. 17. Liszt at the opera II (2 discs) -- v. 18. Liszt at the theatre -- v. 19. Liebesträume and the songbooks -- v. 20. Album d'un voyageur and other pieces from Liszt's years of travel in France and Switzerland (2 discs) -- v. 21. Soirées musicales & Soirées italiennes ; transcriptions and fantasies on music by Rossini, Mercadante and Donizetti, and original works inspired by Italy (2 discs) -- v. 22. The Beethoven symphonies (5 discs) -- v. 23. Harold in Italy ; Berlioz, Gounod and Meyerbeer transcriptions -- v. 24. Beethoven and Hummel septets and transcriptions from choral works by Mozart, Verdi, Rossini, Goldschmidt, Mendelssohn and Weber (2 discs) -- v. 25. The canticle of the sun ; From the cradle to the grave, motets and romances -- v. 26. The young liszt : all the surviving piano music by Liszt up to the age of sixteen, some later Album leaves and the Apparitions (2 discs) -- v. 27. Fantasies, paraphrases and transcriptions of national songs and anthems -- v. 28. Dances and marches (2 discs) -- v. 29. Magyar dalok & Magyar rapszódiák : Hungarian/Gypsy songs and rhapsodies (2 discs) -- v. 30. Liszt at the opera III (2 discs) -- (CONT.) v. 31. The Schubert transcriptions I (3 discs) -- v. 32. The Schubert transcriptions II (3 discs) -- v. 33. The Schubert transcriptions III (3 discs) -- v. 34. Douze grandes études -- v. 35. Arabesques : Russian and Hungarian transcriptions -- v. 36. Excelsior! and other rare original works -- v. 37. Tanzmomente and other rare German and Austrian transcriptions -- v. 38. Les préludes ; Concert etudes ; Episodes from Lenau's Faust -- v. 39. Première Année de Pèlerinage : Suisse ; Trois morceaux suisses -- v. 40. Gaudeamus igitur ; Pièces d'occasion -- v. 41. The recitations with pianoforte -- v. 42. Liszt at the opera IV (2 discs) -- v. 43. Deuxième Année de Pèlerinage : Italie ; Venezia e Napoli ; Au bord d'une source -- v. 44. The early Beethoven transcriptions (3 discs) -- (CONT.) v. 45. Rhapsodie espagnole and other pieces on Spanish themes -- v. 46. Responsorien und Antiphonen : music for private meditation (2 discs) -- v. 47. Litanies de Marie -- v. 48. The complete Paganini études -- v. 49. Schubert and Weber transcriptions -- v. 50. Liszt at the opera V (2 discs) -- v. 51. Paralipomènes : the original Dante sonata, and other first thoughts and second drafts (2 discs) -- v. 52. Ungarischer Romanzero ; Deux marches dans le genre hongrois -- v. 53a. Music for piano and orchestra I (2 discs) -- v. 53b. Music for piano and orchestra II (3 discs) -- v. 54. Liszt at the opera VI (2 discs) -- v. 55. Grande fantaisie sur La clochette and other first thoughts and second drafts (3 discs) -- v. 56. Rarities, curiosities, Album-leaves and fragments (4 discs) -- v. 57. Hungarian rhapsodies (2 discs).
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