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Liszt’s Dante Symphony plus a world-premiere recording from Kirill Karabits
24th Jan 2020
Kirill Karabits conducts the Staatskapelle Weimar in orchestral works by Liszt, including the world-premiere recording of the Künstlerfestzug zur Schillerfeier.
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Kirill Karabits conducts the world premiere of Liszt's Sardanapalo
8th Feb 2019
Reconstructed by the musicologist David Trippett, the single completed act of Liszt's abandoned opera on a subject by Byron reveals what the composer's son-in-law Wagner described as 'the claw of a lion'.
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David Trippett on Liszt's Sardanapalo
8th Feb 2019
The musicologist and driving-force behind today's Recording of the Week talks to Katherine about the mysterious genesis of Liszt's uncompleted opera, and the process of reconstructing the manuscript for performance.
