Liszt - Transcendental Etudes - Arrau
Franz Liszt's 12 Études d'exécution transcendante S.139 - Claudio Arrau
1 CD, 66:25 | Super Audio CD, DSD | PentaTone | EAC, FLAC tracks, CUE, Logs | Covers | RS | 277 MB
Classical - Romantic period | Solo Instrumental Music - Etude | Composed 1852 | Recording 1974
A reference recording of the études
Classics Today:
I prefer Claudio Arrau's Transcendental Etudes for their greater finesse, more fervently projected lyrical lines, and seasoned musicianship (to say nothing of the veteran pianist's unimpaired technique)..
..Arrau still dominates modern recordings - Jed Distler
Gramophone:
When Claudio Arrau walks on to the platform and sits down, one may believe him 75 this month, but listening to these records his years fall away and one cannot credit him more than 50. Liszt's Transcendental Studies were composed for a young virtuoso, the most amazing known to devotees of the piano, essentially a young lion of tireless strength, accuracy, joie de vivre, all qualities of athletic youth. Along comes Arrau, pushing three-quarters of a century, and he conquers all the technical difficulties as easily as he must have done fifty years ago when he made his first records. But by now he has learned other tricks, and discovered other, more searching qualities. In these twelve pieces, first of all challenges to ten fingers and the rest of a person in charge of a piano, then challenges to a musical interpreter. When a pianist plays the Transcendental Studies whistle-clean and with some character and tonal variety, most people are happy. Some pianists can offer more, as the music demands. Kentner (on Turnabout) and Berman (on HMV Melodiya) do, so does Arrau, on balance far more than anyone now before the public.
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