"[...] this RIAS collection will retain an essential place in this artist’s legacy." (Audiophile Audition)

[...] les Thuringeois les joue plus Telemann, avivant les rythmes, les dansant, savourant des alliages instrumentaux plus âpres, jouant plus sur la corde, ce qui convient aux danses vives [...]

Künstlerfestzug is of great interest. A real romantic piece with lots of fanfares. Joyous, triumphal tones throughout. Maybe not his greatest work but one to be enjoyed. All pieces are committed and no doubt orchestra/conductor have a real association with Liszt. Has to be one of the most acclaimed put to record for many of years. . Sound quality is some of the best i have heard. I recommend these to any collector of classical music and not to be missed for any lisztian.

First to get it out of the way, the Mazeppa performance is fine, but nothing special.

Now onto the single reconstructed act of the opera: This is fantastic stuff. Not just for Liszt completists. The music is thrilling, and the central love duet and finale particularly so. Melodic in a way that Liszt sometimes isn't, dramatic as the best of his work. Totally brilliant. Perhaps this isn't the best of librettos and the best of drama in the libretto, but the music, my goodness, the music! What a shame this is just one Act. It's a complete transfiguration of the Italian operatic style of the 1850s. To me, this has surprisingly little in common with the far more dignified dramatism of his oratorio on St Elizabeth, which was also semi-staged an opera by Liszt from time to time. I wasn't really expecting music as thrilling and barnstorming as this opera fragment.

Ascoltare le sezioni ritrovate e ricostruite di un'opera lirica di Liszt è un'esperienza unica e da raccomandare a tutti i lisztiani! CD da avere assolutamente a casa!

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Paul Tortelier as a musician and teacher believed that music's vertical and linear dimensions – harmony and counterpoint – should be kept in balance, and regarded his own compositions – a light-hearted example of which is included in Paul Tortelier: RIAS Recordings – as a riposte to Schoenberg's dodecaphony. The recordings, made between 1949 and 1964 at RIAS (Radio In the American Sector) in Berlin, were for a live audience so silent that these could be labelled 'studio' events. And the selection here, released for the first time, testify both to his versatility and his excellence in his favourite repertoire, most notably Bach. Pablo Casals may have been his hero but, in contrast to that cellist's heart-on-sleeve passion, Tortelier's style in Bach was restrained and smooth; legato, he said, should be the key and his tempos were at times daringly slow. What he described as the 'subtle, nervous' bow hand was much more important to him than the left hand. Tortelier's discs are accompanied by an illuminating liner note from Rüdiger Albrecht […]

La violinista alemana y el pianista español rinden tributo a los compositores...