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Label Perfect Noise |
UPC 0719279933833 |
Catalogue number PN 2002 |
Release date 04 December 2020 |
On his debut CD, the young pianist Corbyn Beisner indulges in the complexity, mysticism and passion of major piano works by Franz Liszt.
Recorded in the beautiful acoustics oft he Menuhin Forum Bern. Liszt.
If you would open any biography of Franz Liszt, you would probably mostly read about his disquiet life as a piano virtuoso, his passionate love life, and the return to his catholic roots at the end of his life. Although all of this might be true, it only scratches the surface of his comprehensive musical personality. Liszt was a pianist, conductor, teacher and organiser, but above all he was a composer of a voluminous, capricious body of work. Even though his piano works formed his core business, he gave rise to the symphonic poem, got rid of the organ's stuffy appearance, and reinvigorated the oratorio. Moreover, with his piano transciptions of Bach's organ works and Berlioz's Symphonie Fantastique, he was an advocate of both old and new music.
Together with his son-in-law Richard Wagner, he was in the forefront of the Romantic movement and anticipated the musical revolutions of the early 20th century with his new composition techniques.