Jenö Jandó
This latest album in the Complete Piano Music series of Franz Liszt is devoted to memorialising the dead. Historical Hungarian Portraits dates largely from 1885 and commemorates significant figures in the country’s recent past, including politicians, a poet and a musician. The mood is powerfully sombre. Liszt marked his son-in law Wagner’s death with Am Grabe R. Wagner (‘At the Grave of Richard Wagner’) using a theme from Parsifal. But the most intense and forward-looking of these pieces is Weinen, Klagen, Sorgen, Zagen, a foretaste of the experimental piano writing to come.
Listen to an excerpt from
Historical Hungarian Portraits, S205/R112: Széchenyi István (Stephan Széchenyi)
LISZT, F.: Later Piano Music (Historical Hungarian Portraits) (Jandó) (Liszt Complete Piano Music, Vol. 54)
8.574059 | 747313405978
Playing Time: 77:58
Price Code: NXP
Release Date: 10 Jan 2020
DISCOVER
 
Historische ungarische Bildnisse
(‘Historical Hungarian Portraits’),
S205/R112 (c. 1885)


30:27
1
Széchenyi István (Stephan Széchenyi)
3:13
2
Eötvös József (Joseph Eötvös)
2:20
3
Vörösmarty Mihály (Michael Vörösmarty)
4:48
4
Teleki László (Ladislaus Teleki)
4:23
5
Deák Ferenc (Franz Deák)
2:41
6
Petőfi Sándor (Alexander Petőfi)
5:50
7
Mosonyi Mihály (Michael Mosonyi)
6:42
8
Richard Wagner – Venezia, S201/R82 (1883)
2:54
9
Am Grabe Richard Wagners (‘At the Grave of
Richard Wagner’), S202/R85 (1883)

3:00
10
Die Trauergondel (‘The Funeral Gondola’) – La lugubre gondola II, S200/2/R81/2 (1885)

9:36
11
Schlaflos! Frage und Antwort –Nocturne nach einem Gedicht von Toni Raab (‘Insomnia! Question and Answer – Nocturne based on a poem by Toni Raab’), S203/R79 (alternative version) (1883)



2:54
12
A magyarok istene (‘Hungary’s God’),
S543/R214 (1881)

4:22
13
Petőfi szellemének (‘In Memory of Petőfi’),
S195/R111 (1877)

3:34
14
Trauervorspiel und Trauermarsch (‘Funeral Prelude and Funeral March’), S206/R83–84 (1885)

7:48
15
Mosonyi gyászmenete (‘Mosonyi’s Funeral Procession’), S194/R110 (1870)

6:14
16
Weinen, Klagen, Sorgen, Zagen (‘Weeping, Lamenting, Worrying, Fearing’) (Prelude after
J. S. Bach), S179/R23 (1859)


6:52
Total Time: 77:58
   About Jenö Jandó

Jenő Jandó is one of the most prolific artists in the history of classical music recording, and over the years, has built an incredible discography. For Naxos, he has recorded all the piano concertos and sonatas of Mozart, as well as the concertos of Grieg and Schumann, the complete piano sonatas of Haydn and Beethoven, the complete piano music of Bartók, and much more, as well as a wide repertoire of chamber music. His critically acclaimed recordings of the Complete Haydn Piano Sonatas are available in a 10-disc boxed set (8.501042), released to mark the 200th anniversary of the composer’s death in 2009.

In many ways, Jandó defines the approach which Naxos has to its catalogue: innovation, completeness, quality, breadth and availability. The Hungarian pianist has won a number of piano competitions in Hungary and abroad, including first prize in the 1973 Hungarian Piano Concours and first prize in the chamber music category at the Sydney International Piano Competition in 1977. He is Naxos’ most streamed artist, whose top 100 tracks have generated over26 million streams in the last year alone. Jenő Jandó is a professor at the Liszt Academy Budapest.

For the full list of Jenő Jandó’s extensive discography on Naxos, please visit www.naxos.com/person/Jeno_Jando/339.htm.