Brendel Plays Liszt
The Debut Recording
Alfred Brendel (piano)
Awards:
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Gramophone Magazine, January 2012, Re-issue of the Month
[in the Christmas Tree Suite] in particular, challenged by such unsettling ambiguity, Brendel plays with an imaginative insight and delicacy given to very few pianists. How hauntingly he conveys...
Brendel Plays Liszt
The Debut Recording
Alfred Brendel (piano)
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Awards:
-
Gramophone Magazine, January 2012, Re-issue of the Month
[in the Christmas Tree Suite] in particular, challenged by such unsettling ambiguity, Brendel plays with an imaginative insight and delicacy given to very few pianists. How hauntingly he conveys...
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Alfred Brendel exhibits a technical tour de force in his recording of Liszt’s Paganini Etudes. But it is the coupling, the rarely recorded Christmas Tree Suite, which is of historic interest as it was Brendel’s first ever recording , made at the age of 20. This release is essential listening for both lovers of Brendel and the romantic piano repertoire.
Contents and tracklist
Work length26:14
Etude in G Minor - "Tremolo Study"
Track length4:42
Etude in E-flat Major - "Octave Study"
Track length5:41
Etude in G Sharp Minor - "La Campanella"
Track length5:04
Etude in E Major - "Arpeggio Study"
Track length2:12
Etude in E Major - "La Chasse"
Track length3:19
Etude in A Minor - "Theme and Variations"
Track length5:16
Liszt:
Weihnachtsbaum S 186, "Christmas Tree Suite"
Work length39:02
Psallite - Altes Weihnachtslied
Track length2:45
O Heilige Nacht! - Weihnachtslied Nach Einer Alten Weise
Track length4:42
Die Hirten an der Krippe - In Dulci Iubilo
Track length3:15
Adeste Fideles - Gleichsam als Marsch der Heiligen Drei Könige
Track length2:22
Scherzoso - Man Zundet Die Kerzen des Baumes an
Track length1:55
Carillon
Track length1:47
Schlummerlied
Track length3:56
Altes Provenzalisches Weihnachtslied
Track length1:20
Abendglocken
Track length4:24
Ehemals!
Track length4:12
Ungarisch
Track length1:57
Polnisch
Track length6:27
Donizetti:
Reminiscences de Lucia di Lammermoor
Work length5:29
Verdi:
Miserere du Trovatore
Work length8:13
Awards and reviews
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Gramophone MagazineJanuary 2012Re-issue of the Month
January 2012
[in the Christmas Tree Suite] in particular, challenged by such unsettling ambiguity, Brendel plays with an imaginative insight and delicacy given to very few pianists. How hauntingly he conveys a work moving from innocence to experience...The recorded sound may be primitive but nothing can dim such musical quality
