Franz Liszt: Dante Symphony; Evocation à la Chapelle Sixtine (2011)

What did Franz Liszt's music sound like in his day? To answer this question, Martin Haselböck, the Orchester Wiener Akademie, and the women of the Chorus Sine Nomine present the Dante Symphony and the Évocation à la Chapelle Sixtine in historically informed, Romantic period style. With an orchestra playing authentic instruments and numbering fewer than 40 members, and a women's chorus approximating the size Liszt would have had available in Weimar, the sound of these performances is quite direct and at times startling in ... Read More

What did Franz Liszt's music sound like in his day? To answer this question, Martin Haselböck, the Orchester Wiener Akademie, and the women of the Chorus Sine Nomine present the Dante Symphony and the Évocation à la Chapelle Sixtine in historically informed, Romantic period style. With an orchestra playing authentic instruments and numbering fewer than 40 members, and a women's chorus approximating the size Liszt would have had available in Weimar, the sound of these performances is quite direct and at times startling in its originality. It's easy to understand why this music was regarded as cutting-edge, because it offered novel sonorities, especially in the instrumental combinations, and some special effects of orchestration that had few practitioners, other than Berlioz and Wagner. Yet Liszt's explosive depiction of Dante's "Divine Comedy" paves the way for the tone poems of Richard Strauss and the symphonies of Gustav Mahler, and the careful listener will notice that the leanness and transparency... Read Less

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