Liszt - Via Crucis & Solo Piano Works | Sony 19802856672

Liszt - Via Crucis & Solo Piano Works

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Label: Sony

Cat No: 19802856672

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 1

Release Date: 11th April 2025

Contents

Artists

Leif Ove Andsnes (piano)
The Norwegian Soloists’ Choir

Conductor

Grete Pedersen

Works

Liszt, Franz

Consolations (6), S172
Harmonies poetiques et religieuses, S173
» no.8 Miserere, d'apres Palestrina
» no.9 Andante lagrimoso
Via crucis (The 14 Stations of the Cross), S53

Artists

Leif Ove Andsnes (piano)
The Norwegian Soloists’ Choir

Conductor

Grete Pedersen

About

On his latest album ‘Liszt - Via Crucis & Solo Piano Works’ for Sony Classical, Norwegian pianist Leif Ove Andsnes unveils the often-forgotten side of the famed virtuoso Franz Liszt – the sacred music that offers a more intimate picture of the man and his deeply held faith.

With acclaimed vocal ensemble the Norwegian Soloists’ Choir, Andsnes has recorded Liszt’s remarkable late work Via Crucis (‘The Way of the Cross’) for choir and piano. The pianist completes his all-Liszt album with the solo piano work Consolations and two movements from the composer’s Harmonies poétiques et religieuses.

Reviews

Via Crucis is traditionally catalogued as a choral work. But although the default edition calls for voices with organ or piano ‘accompaniment’, there’s very little singing, and Liszt offered alternative performance options, some dispensing with the voices entirely. Via Crucis is thus more accurately described as a work for piano or organ with optional vocal interventions. Leif Ove Andsnes grasps this fully, refusing to minimise his role. No other pianist (or organist) has taken on this repertoire with such depth and understanding. ... All in all, a new benchmark for Via CrucisPeter J Rabinowitz
Gramophone May 2025
Gramophone Editor's Choice

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