Liszt, at times a devout catholic, portrayed dantes scenes with great imagination and passion, cleverly suiting his melodysometimes simple and tranquil, sometimes chromatic and writhing. Liszts other symphonic work, the symphony to dantes divina commedia 1856, depicts the three major sections of the divine comedyinferno, purgatory, and paradise. Liszt provided an alternative ending to the symphony omitting the chorus mysticus to be performed in the absence of tenor and chorus. To generate automatically updated lists see browse by work genre in the sidebar. The origins, the criticism, a selective musical analysis, and commentary. Leon botsteins kinder, gentler dante symphony lacks the vital element of passion it needs for a successful performance. Liszt s masterpiece faust symphony is a lavish orchestral depiction of three characters from goethes faust using nothing but sound, liszt paints detailed pictures of the three characters emotions, psychology, and personalities. I provide the original scanned version and the filtered, because the filter does some changes smoothening, sharpening borders and some portions of the scan get lost sometimes when they are too small e. Liszts dante symphony is a sizzling tale of murder and covert spy rings set amid the turbulent rise of bismarcks prussia, which leads to hitlers infernal third reich. Other articles where symphony to dantes divina commedia is discussed. This work was originally intended to be a fulllength, threemovement symphony, but liszt eventually reduced the work into a single compound movement a form that he was using with great frequency by the late 1850s. The faust symphony of choice remains leonard bernsteins in 1976 with the boston symphony, reissued on cd as a dgg original. Liszts faust symphony blows the bogus symphonic vs programme music debate out of the water tom service tue 1 jul 2014 02. Cd 1 recorded 1621 april 1992, schauspielhaus berlin.
The dante sonata is the 7 th piece in liszts piano works collection. He whips up the opening storm excitingly, plays the francesca episode tenderly, evokes the hellish laughter in the strings and clarinets. Written in the high romantic style, it is based on dante alighieris journey through hell and purgatory, as depicted in the divine comedy. Written in the high romantic style, it is based on dante alighieri s journey through hell and purgatory, as depicted in the divine comedy. List of compositions with orchestral cello parts imslp. Strauss spells it out for us from section to section. Jul 01, 2014 liszt s faust symphony blows the bogus symphonic vs programme music debate out of the water tom service tue 1 jul 2014 02. Liszt, at times a devout catholic, portrayed dantes scenes with great imagination and passion, cleverly suiting his. Symphony to dantes divina commedia work by liszt britannica.
Liszt started working properly on the dante symphony in about 1855, when he was settled comfortably in weimar. Every known note of liszts piano music has been recorded and is included. The dante symphony version offered here, on the other hand, was made by liszt and liszt, who transcribed much orchestral music for piano, including all nine beethoven symphonies, was a master at reducing a score to the keyboard. At age 6 he took music lessons from his father, adam liszt, who worked at the court of count esterhazy, the main sponsor of liszt s. Remarkable as much for its musicological research and scholarly rigour as for howards herculean piano playing, this survey is invaluable to serious lovers of liszt. The dante sonata is the 7th piece in liszts piano works collection. Gianandrea noseda does a good job with the dante symphonys first movement the only part anyone cares about. Faust symphony, dante symphony, les preludes, prometheus by siegfried jerusalem, franz liszt, sir georg solti, jesus lopezcobos, chicago symphony, london philharmonic from amazons classical music store. Daniel barenboim conducted the berliner philharmoniker in february 1992 giving us this live recording of franz liszts dante symphony splendidly recorded by the teldec team on this cd. The coupling of the symphony with the dante sonata is an obvious but adroit choice and it allows barenboims to show off his versatility. In 1843, he arranged the third movement of the third symphony, which was later published by pietro mechetti in 1850. The first movement of liszts dante symphony, inferno, opens. Dante, liszt, and the alienated agony of hell published by scholarlycommons, 2018. Every known note of liszts piano music has been recorded and is included here.
His father was hungarian and his mother was austrian. They are among the most technically demanding piano music ever written. If there were a means for the average listener and not just people who have a copy of the complete score to follow along with the dante symphony, it would be much more engaging. And the lord spake, saying, first shalt thou take out the holy pin, then shalt thou count to three, no more, no less. Jun 06, 2011 liszt s dante symphony is a great book. Dante symphony, an album by franz liszt, gyorgy lehel on spotify we and our partners use cookies to personalize your experience, to show you ads based on your interests, and for measurement and analytics purposes. Rick disilvio paints rich characters who are totally believable and he keeps you guessing as the plot thickens throughout this fictionalhistorical novel. Purgatorio hrsinfonieorchester frankfurt radio symphony slowakischer. It was quite advanced for its era, employing many new orchestral colors and daring harmonic schemes. Hoplit, hanslick and liszts dante symphony jsmi, 7 201112, p. Franz liszt, the virtuoso pianist and composer, was the most famous concert superstar of the 19th century. Scores at the international music score library project imslp. Yes, this is one of liszts most vulgar scores, and if youre going to do it, you might as well play it for all its worth.
The disc also contains a 1985 recording of barenboim playing the dante sonata. This work of program music was inspired by the reading of dante alighieris most famous epic poem, the divine comedy. Symphony eine symphonie zu dantes divina commedia, s. I am deeply grateful that i was born man humans and to appreciate the wonderful world of music composition and has given me an opportunity to experience. I punteggi alla international music score library project imslp. Here, of course, he reduced his original score for chorus and orchestra to two pianos and chorus. Faust symphony liszts orchestral character painting. There are eight questions you have to ask yourself about this 2003 recording of liszts dante symphony by leon botstein and the london symphony orchestra on telarc. Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible orders.
He whips up the opening storm excitingly, plays the francesca episode tenderly, evokes the hellish laughter in the strings and clarinets with obvious relish kudos to the players here, and blasts through the closing pages with fiendish abandon. Franz liszt dante symphony warner classics apex 2564. Take a typical cd for the alpine symphony as an example. This is a list of public domain orchestral compositions, that have individual parts for the cello on imslp. Liszt dante sonata download free sheet music and scores scorser. Order from your preferred classical music cd store arkivmusic. See also the album leaf dante symphony progression, s. Like liszt s other famous tone poem, the faust symphony, the dante symphony was inspired by a literary source. Although liszt like berlioz, meyerbeer, and to some extent wagner was one of the forbidden modern composers whose works tchaikovsky and herman laroche would play through as students at the saint petersburg conservatory, in defiance of the classical precepts of their teachers, it seems that tchaikovsky never really warmed to liszts music. Fantasia quasi sonata french for after a reading of dante. Composed in 185556, liszts symphony to dantes divina commedia is.