Michele Campanella - Franz Liszt - Années de pèlerinage (2020) [Hi-Res]

Tracklist

01. Annees de pelerinage - Premiere annee, Suisse, S.160 I. Chapelle de Guillaume Tell
02. Annees de pelerinage - Premiere annee, Suisse, S.160 II. Au lac de Wallenstadt
03. Annees de pelerinage - Premiere annee, Suisse, S.160 III. Pastorale
04. Annees de pelerinage - Premiere annee, Suisse, S.160 IV. Au bord d'une source
05. Annees de pelerinage - Premiere annee, Suisse, S.160 V. Orage
06. Annees de pelerinage - Premiere annee, Suisse, S.160 VI. Vallee d'Obermann
07. Annees de pelerinage - Premiere annee, Suisse, S.160 VII. Eglogue
08. Annees de pelerinage - Premiere annee, Suisse, S.160 VIII. Le mal du pays (Heimweh)
09. Annees de pelerinage - Premiere annee, Suisse, S.160 IX. Les cloches de Geneve (Nocturne)
10. Annees de pelerinage - Deuxieme annee, Italie, S.161 I. Sposalizio
11. Annees de pelerinage - Deuxieme annee, Italie, S.161 II. Il Pensieroso
12. Annees de pelerinage - Deuxieme annee, Italie, S.161 III. Canzonetta del Salvator Rosa
13. Annees de pelerinage - Deuxieme annee, Italie, S.161 IV. Sonetto 47 del Petrarca
14. Annees de pelerinage - Deuxieme annee, Italie, S.161 V. Sonetto 104 del Petrarca
15. Annees de pelerinage - Deuxieme annee, Italie, S.161 VI. Sonetto 123 del Petrarca
16. Annees de pelerinage - Deuxieme annee, Italie, S.161 VII. Apres une lecture de Dante. Fantasia Quasi Sonata
17. Annees de pelerinage - Troisieme annee, S.163 I. Angelus! Priere aux anges gardiens
18. Annees de pelerinage - Troisieme annee, S.163 II. Aux cypres de la Villa d'Este I (Threnodie)
19. Annees de pelerinage - Troisieme annee, S.163 III. Aux cypres de la Villa d'Este II (Threnodie)
20. Annees de pelerinage - Troisieme annee, S.163 IV. Les jeux d'eaux a la Villa d'Este
21. Annees de pelerinage - Troisieme annee, S.163 V. Sunt lacrymae rerum, en mode hongrois
22. Annees de pelerinage - Troisieme annee, S.163 VI. Marche funebre, en memoire de Maximilian I, Empereur du Mexique
23. Annees de pelerinage - Troisieme annee, S.163 VII. Sursum corda


Italian pianist Michele Campanella has become renowned as a Liszt specialist, but with customary modesty and respect for the composer's music he has chosen to wait until now to record the seminal 'Années de pèlerinage'. The desire to get to grips with these pieces dates back 50 years to when Campanella was first starting to play Liszt's music, but he waited, recognising that maturity and experience would bring him closer to Liszt's own state of mind as he composed these pieces. Liszt's dazzling virtuosity is often emphasised, but in this recording Campanella has accentuated the composer's more introspective tendencies, making this a unique and truly insightful interpretation.

The three sets of Liszt's 'Années de pèlerinage' take the listener on a journey not only through the geographical regions that inspired the composer, Switzerland and Italy, but on a voyage through his own personal development, becoming increasingly inward-looking and spiritual with each cycle. The first set, 'Suisse', already displays much of that psychological scope, with works of quintessential Romanticism: poetic, evocative and wide-ranging in their emotional landscape. The second set, 'Italie', is even more organic and compact in its conception, and in the final set we hear an older composer reflecting on life and death in music characterised by impressionistic colours and profound spiritual depth. This album is a rare opportunity to hear a musician immersed in Liszt's world perform this music in a way that puts the music first; Campanella does not use Liszt's pieces as a vehicle to showcase his own skill, but records them with a sincere wish to communicate the intricacies of the repertoire. With this in mind, Campanella has recorded Liszt's works on a Steinway model D from 1892 that has survived to this day with all its original components intact, resulting in a warm and authentic sound.

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