Gábor Farkas - Liszt: Opera & Song for Solo Piano (2017)

A great transcriptionist before the Eternal, Liszt "borrowed" from all his contemporaries, including himself. But as a borrower, it has seriously increased the borrowing of a very large number of interests of all kinds, especially virtuoso. Here, under the fingers of the Hungarian pianist Gábor Farkas (a disciple of Kocsis), winner of the Liszt Prize of Weimar in 2009 and regularly invited to the most prestigious halls of the world - Carnegie Hall, Fenice of Venice, Konzerthaus of Berlin etc. - an array of "arrangements," or rather of complete rewritings, realized from scenes of operas by Gounod, Verdi and Wagner; As well as Lieder de Schumann (monsieur and madame) and Chopin (who wrote some songs according to Polish themes, little marvels). And to top it all, the version that Liszt himself established for solo piano from his own Totentanz initially designed for piano and orchestra.

TRACKLIST

01. Valse de l'opera Faust de Gounod, S407/R166
02. Verdi-Aida: Danza sacra e duetto final, S436/R269
03. 6 Chants polonais, S. 480: No. 2. Fruhling (Wiosna, Spring)
04. 6 Chants polonais, S. 480: No. 5. Mein Freuden (Moja pieszczotka, My Joys)
05. Isoldes Liebestod, S. 447 (After R. Wagner): Wagner-Isoldes Liebestod from Tristan und Isolde, S447/R280
06. Lieder von Clara Schumann, S. 569: No. 8. Warum willst du andere fragen?
07. Lieder von Clara Schumann, S. 569: No. 9. Ich hab' in deinem Auge
08. Lieder von Clara Schumann, S. 569: No. 10. Geheimes Flustern hier und dort
09. Widmung, S. 566 (After R. Schumann): Schumann-Liebeslied, S566/R253, "Widmung"
10. Totentanz, S525/R188