In Franz Liszt's bicentennial year, numerous recordings and reissues of his music have appeared as a matter of course, but perhaps none is as unique, intriguing, and instructive as Pierre-Laurent Aimard's 2011 album, The Liszt Project, which presents pieces by the Hungarian master with compositions by other composers that bear his influence. Such works as Liszt's widely emulated Sonata in B minor and some of his highly chromatic, tonally unstable pieces can be shown to have exerted a powerful effect on Richard Wagner, Alban ...
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In Franz Liszt's bicentennial year, numerous recordings and reissues of his music have appeared as a matter of course, but perhaps none is as unique, intriguing, and instructive as Pierre-Laurent Aimard's 2011 album, The Liszt Project, which presents pieces by the Hungarian master with compositions by other composers that bear his influence. Such works as Liszt's widely emulated Sonata in B minor and some of his highly chromatic, tonally unstable pieces can be shown to have exerted a powerful effect on Richard Wagner, Alban Berg, and Alexander Scriabin, particularly in their piano sonatas. Furthermore, some of the more picturesque and evocative keyboard pieces have shaped the musical ideas and techniques of such modernists as Béla Bartók, Maurice Ravel, and Olivier Messiaen. Divided between two CDs, the program's organization makes clear the points of comparison between Liszt's pieces and those of others, and any attentive and imaginative listener can make the connections quite easily, if not through...
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