{"product_id":"2250464","title":"Michael Kaykov - Liszt: Unrivalled \/ Volume 2 [CD]","description":"Brand New From Reputable UK Company With 30 Years Experience In Retail, Please Note Not All Our New Items Are Shrink Wrapped.\u003cbr\u003eAll items shipped within 3 working days of payment.\u003cbr\u003ePlease note that all our DVDs are Region 2.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePlease note that not all audio CDs are shrink-wrapped fom the factory.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eAmerican 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eUnderestimated 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 \u003ci\u003eImpromptu\u003c\/i\u003e, S. 191 lives up to the spontaneity of its name, while the last four of the 19 \u003ci\u003eHungarian Rhapsodies\u003c\/i\u003e were composed some 30 years after the first 15 and have a completely different character, epitomising Liszt's ascetic late style.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe \u003ci\u003eFuneral Prelude and Funeral March\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFranz Liszt: Csardas macabre, S.224\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFranz Liszt: Impromptu, S.191\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFranz Liszt: Hungarian Rhapsody No. 19 in D minor, S.244\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFranz Liszt: Trauervorspiel und Trauermarsch, S.206\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFranz Liszt: Mephisto Polka, S.217\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFranz Liszt: In festo transfigurationis Domini nostri Jesu Christi, S.188\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFranz Liszt: Toccata, S.197a\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFranz Liszt: Mephisto Waltz No. 3, S.216\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFranz Liszt: Sarabande und Chaconne aus dem Singspiel Almira, S.181\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFranz Liszt: Polonaise from Tchaikovsky's Eugene Onegin, S.429\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFranz Liszt: Bagatelle sans tonalite, S.216a\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Chalkys.com","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54420738572673,"sku":"2250464","price":13.98,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0056\/8043\/1219\/files\/0810042704558.jpg?v=1750620710","url":"https:\/\/chalkys.com\/products\/2250464","provider":"Chalkys.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}