A Liszt List #1141
…to celebrate the bicentennial of Franz Liszt (1811-1886), who made the 19th century pipe organ a vehicle for virtuosos, and for prayers.
Hour 1
FRANZ LISZT: Prelude & Fugue on B-A-C-H [first version, 1855] –Thomas Trotter (1855 Ladegast/Merseburg Cathedral, Germany) London/Decca 440 283
FRANZ LISZT: Fantasy & Fugue on a Theme of Meyerbeer Ad nos, ad salutarem undam, from Le Prophete [1850-1855]–Ken Cowan (1953 Aeolian-Skinner/Riverside, New York, NY) Pipedreams Archive recorded July 14, 2009
FRANZ LISZT: Evocation of the Sistine Chapel [1862]–Martin Haselböck (1873 Ladegast/St. James Church, Köthen, Germany) NCA 60144
Filler –Ad nos Finale; London/Decca 440 283
Hour 2
FRANZ LISZT (arranged): Prelude & Fugue from Bach’s Cantata Number 21, Ich hatte viel Bekümmernis [1860]–Tobias Gravenhorst (1899 Furtwängler & Hammer/St. Nicolai Church, Lüneburg, Germany) Motette CD MOT 13131
FRANZ LISZT: Variations on Weinen, Klagen, Sorgen, Zagen [1862]–Jonathan Gregoire (1949 Wicks/Basilica of St. Mary, Minneapolis, MN) Pipedreams Archive recorded July 14, 2010
FRANZ LISZT: Psalm 137, By the waters of Babylon –Angelika Czabán, soprano; Melinda Felletár, harp; György Sárosi, violin; Kölcsey Choir of Debrecen, Lászkó Tamási, conductor; István Ruppert (1997 Aquincum/Calvinist Church, Debrecen, Hungary) Ruppert 9024
FRANZ LISZT: Am Grabe Richard Wagners [1883] –Gail Archer (1967 Gress-Miles/Vassar College Chapel, Poughkeepsie, NY) MeyerMedia 11022
FRANZ LISZT: Consolation Number 4 in D-flat [1849] –Ken Cowan (2004 Quimby/First Baptist Church, Jackson, MS) JAV CD-186
FRANZ LISZT: Nun danket alle Gott [1883] –Gloriae Dei Cantores Choir, Elizabeth Patterson, conductor; David Chalmers (E.M. Skinner; Barden/Church of the Transfiguration, Orleans, MA) Gloriae Dei Cantores 049
Filler –Evocation of the Sistine Chapel (see above)
A second program, devoted mostly to organ transcriptions of Liszt’s works, follows next week.
