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The Naxos label’s ongoing Franz Liszt Complete Piano Music Edition is already an internationally recognised reference source, both for his greatest works and for less frequently performed early versions, transcriptions and pieces that are sparsely represented in recording catalogues. We now reach Volume 69, adding to the wealth of rarities already recorded in the series, and in this case including world premiere recordings of Album-Leafs An die Künstler III, IV and V.
Franz LISZT (1811–1886)
Complete Piano Music, Vol. 69
Choral Transcriptions
Michael Kaykov, PianoA central expression of Franz Liszt’s multifaceted creativity was his lifelong engagement with transcription and transformation, using the piano as a medium capable of absorbing the sonorities, gestures and emotional weight of voices and orchestras alike. From the declamatory strength and driving rhythms of the earlier Schnitterchor aus dem Entfesselten Prometheus to various late meditations on An die Künstler, these works trace Liszt’s artistic evolution from the assertive rhetoric of his early maturity to the compressed, exploratory language of his final years.
No. 1. La consolation
American pianist and educator Dr Michael Kaykov has appeared as a soloist throughout the United States, Europe and Asia, with recent engagements including a series of Liszt recitals devoted to rarely heard works. A Steinway & Sons educational partner, he also serves on the faculty at the Harlem School of the Arts. The recipient of numerous scholarships, his learned articles have been published in the International Review of the Aesthetics and Sociology of Music (IRASM, Croatian Musicological Society), Problemy Muzykal’noj Nauki (PMN, Russia), and Innovation Art Studies (ICONI, Russia).
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Beethoven: Symphony No. 9
(Transcription for Two Pianos)
McCawley • Wass
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Dances
Valses oubliées • Csárdás
Grand Galop chromatique
Filipec
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