Michael Kaykov - Liszt: Unrivalled / Volume 2 [CD]

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American pianist and academic Michael Kaykov follows his first Odradek release, Liszt: Unrivalled, with Unrivalled Volume 2, an album devoted to the composer's extraordinary late piano works.

Underestimated at the time, Liszt's late piano works are increasingly recognised as masterpieces of innovation, pushing the boundaries of tonality and style with a radical daring that paved the way for modernism. Each work on this album is an illustration of these remarkable developments. Highlights include the Csardas macabre which features empty sequences of fifths, almost minimalist rhythmic repetitions and chromatic undulations of pared-back melodic lines. The Impromptu, S. 191 lives up to the spontaneity of its name, while the last four of the 19 Hungarian Rhapsodies were composed some 30 years after the first 15 and have a completely different character, epitomising Liszt's ascetic late style.

The Funeral Prelude and Funeral March are pervaded with chromaticism, dissonant harmonies, augmented intervals and tonal ambiguity, while brevity and simplicity characterise the Mephisto Polka. The Bagatelle sans tonalite, with its extreme chromaticism and dissolution of functional harmony, heralds a new musical epoch beyond the Romantic era with which Liszt is most often associated. Michael Kaykov approaches this magnificent repertoire with sensitivity, nuance and breath-taking skill.

Franz Liszt: Csardas macabre, S.224

Franz Liszt: Impromptu, S.191

Franz Liszt: Hungarian Rhapsody No. 19 in D minor, S.244

Franz Liszt: Trauervorspiel und Trauermarsch, S.206

Franz Liszt: Mephisto Polka, S.217

Franz Liszt: In festo transfigurationis Domini nostri Jesu Christi, S.188

Franz Liszt: Toccata, S.197a

Franz Liszt: Mephisto Waltz No. 3, S.216

Franz Liszt: Sarabande und Chaconne aus dem Singspiel Almira, S.181

Franz Liszt: Polonaise from Tchaikovsky's Eugene Onegin, S.429

Franz Liszt: Bagatelle sans tonalite, S.216a

Franz Liszt: Csardas macabre, S.224

Franz Liszt: Impromptu, S.191

Franz Liszt: Hungarian Rhapsody No. 19 in D minor, S.244

Franz Liszt: Trauervorspiel und Trauermarsch, S.206

Franz Liszt: Mephisto Polka, S.217

Franz Liszt: In festo transfigurationis Domini nostri Jesu Christi, S.188

Franz Liszt: Toccata, S.197a

Franz Liszt: Mephisto Waltz No. 3, S.216

Franz Liszt: Sarabande und Chaconne aus dem Singspiel Almira, S.181

Franz Liszt: Polonaise from Tchaikovsky's Eugene Onegin, S.429

Franz Liszt: Bagatelle sans tonalite, S.216a

• Genre: Classical
• Product Type: AUDIO CD
• Barcode: 810042704558

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