Liszt: Excerpts from Années de pèlerinage - Italie & other works
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Liszt: Excerpts from Années de pèlerinage - Italie & other works
Llyr Williams (piano)
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Release Date: Monday 30 July 2012
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Pianist Llyr Williams is an acclaimed soloist, accompanist and chamber musician who, for his second disc, chose to focus on virtuosic selections from Franz Liszt. Highly sought after as a performer in the United Kingdom, he was awarded a South Bank Sky Arts Award in 2012 for his Beethoven Sonata Cycle at Greyfriars Kirk in Edinburgh the previous year-where he performed all 32 sonatas in just two weeks
'Pèlerinage highlights from Wales's pre-eminent pianist' (Gramophone)
'The musical demands presented by any Liszt programme are so wide-ranging that nor even a pianist of Llyr Williams's class will necessarily succeed in meeting all of them, all of the time. By the same token, there will be plentiful areas that do succeed, and brilliantly' (BBC Music Magazine)» More
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'The core of Llyr Williams' recital disc is a selection of five pieces from the second, Italian, book of Liszt's Annees de Pelerinage-the little Canzonetta del Salvator Rosa and the three Petrarch Sonnets, leading up to the great, climactic Dante Sonata. As he also showed in his Edinburgh festival recital last week, Williams is a superb Liszt interpreter, never content to use even the most technically demanding music as just a vehicle for flashy display, but always looking beneath the elaborate surfaces for deeper rigour and meaning. That doesn't mean he ever understates the music's sense of theatre or misjudges its sense of scale, though; there's a tremendous power and intensity to his Dante Sonata that's maintained from the taut opening phrases to the very final bars. He prefaces his sequence with the Tarentella that ends Venezia e Napoli, Liszt's supplement to the Italian Annee, and adds the Bénédiction de Dieu dans la Solitude and the transcription of the Liebestod from Wagner's Tristan und Isolde as mighty, powerfully wrought postscripts' (The Guardian)
