Liszt: Choral Transcriptions

 
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FRANZ LISZT
Liszt: Choral Transcriptions
Michael Kaykov (piano)

[ Naxos / CD ]

Release Date: Friday 12 June 2026

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A central expression of Franz Liszt's multifaceted creativity was his lifelong engagement with transcription and transformation, using the piano as a medium capable of absorbing the sonorities, gestures and emotional weight of voices and orchestras alike. From the declamatory strength and driving rhythms of the earlier Schnitterchor aus dem Entfesselten Prometheus to various late meditations on
An die Künstler, these works trace Liszt's artistic evolution from the assertive rhetoric of his early maturity to the compressed, exploratory language of his final years.

Tracks:

1 Schnitterchor aus dem
Entfesselten Prometheus, S507a (1850)
(first version of S508)
2 Pastorale (Schnitterchor aus dem
Entfesselten Prometheus), S508/R199
(1861)
3 Gaudeamus igitur, Humoreske,
S509/R200 (1869-70)
4 Marche héroïque, S510/R201 (1848)
5-7 Trois Chansons, S510a (1852)
8 Heroide für das Pianoforte von F. Liszt
nach C.M. von Webers Leier und
Schwert, S452/R285 (1848)
9 Schlummerlied von C.M. von Weber
mit Arabesken, S454/R287 (1848)
10 Fanfare zur Enthüllung des
Carl-Augusts Monument, S542b (1875)
11 La Charité de Rossini, S552a (1847)
(first version)
12 La carità di Rossini, S552b (after 1848)
(facilitated version)
13 Album-Leaf in D flat major, S167q
'Schlusschor des Entfesselten
Prometheus' (1883)
14-18 Album-Leaf in B major, S166t/1-5
'An die Künstler' (c. 1870) *
19 Album-Leaf, S167c (1860s)