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Composer:
Franz Liszt

Artist(s):
Franz Liszt Piano Duo
Hungarian Radio Children's Choir

Background: Volume 26 in the Complete Piano Music Edition presents the first disc of Liszt's two pianos arrangements. Inspired by a reading of the Divina Commedia during a stay in Italy, Liszt began work on his fragment dantesque in the autumn of 1839 and gave its première in Vienna on 5th December. The piece was to be reworked by Liszt at Weimar to form the seventh piece in his Années de pèlerinage, deuxième année (Italie).

Widely known as the Dante Sonata, here in Vittorio Bresciani's arrangement for two pianos, the work opens with ominous descending chords suggesting the entrance to Hell, with its forbidding 'Lasciate ogni speranza, voi che entrate' ('Abandon all hope, you who enter').

In 1847 Liszt turned again to Dante, making his first sketches for a proposed symphony, eventually completed in 1856 and arranged for two pianos by 1859. The Dante Symphony had its first under-rehearsed and disastrous performance in Dresden in 1857, but won gradual acceptance, and the two-piano version remained part of Liszt's own repertoire.

CATALOGUE NR: 8570516
RECORD LABEL: Naxos
FORMAT: CD
PRICE: £ 4.77 including VAT, or £ 4.15 excluding VAT
RELEASE DATE: 01-Oct-2007

COMPOSER: Franz Liszt
TITLE: Complete Piano Music 26
TRACKS: Annees de pelerinage : Deuxieme Annee Italie S161 : No.7 Apres une lecture de Dante - Fantasia quasi Sonata 'Dante Sonata' (arr. for 2 pianos by Vittorio Bresciani). Eine Symphonie zu Dantes - Divina Commedia S648 / R370 'Dante Symphony' (transcription for two pianos and chorus by the composer): Inferno. Purgatorio. Magnificat.
ARTISTS: Franz Liszt Piano Duo   Hungarian Radio Children's Choir    

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