Liszt: Piano Concertos Nos. 1 & 2; Totentanz; Hungarian Fantasy


Liszt: Piano Concertos Nos. 1 & 2; Totentanz; Hungarian Fantasy
Jean-Yves Thibaudet
Label
Decca
Catalogue No.
4428833
Barcode
00028944288339
Format
1-CD
About

With technique to burn but poetry at the fore, Jean-Yves Thibaudet’s recordings of the two Liszt concertos have always held a special affection in many a music-lover’s heart. They are reissued as per the original CD couplings – with the demonic ‘Totentanz’ and the multi-coloured ‘Hungarian Fantasy’.

TRACK LISTING / ARTISTS

FRANZ LISZT
Piano Concerto No. 1 in E flat major
Piano Concerto No. 2 in A major
Totentanz
Hungarian Fantasy

Jean-Yves Thibaudet, piano
Orchestre symphonique de Montréal
Charles Dutoit

Reviews

‘Indeed, I have only praise. Each of the four works here is well characterized, and the typically Lisztian varying tempos are spot on, unrushed but never deliberate and always leading naturally from one to the next. Climactic passages are powerful, but the sound remains pleasant and avoids the crudity that can emerge from these scores in less sensitive hands’ Gramophone