Mariam Batsashvili – Chopin & Liszt: Piano Works (2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 01:09:43 minutes | 577 MB | Genre: Classical
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On her first Warner Classics album pianist Mariam Batsashvili combines solo works by Franz Liszt – a figure of special significance for her – and his contemporary Frédéric Chopin. She left her native Georgia to study at the Franz Liszt Conservatory in Weimar and gained international recognition in 2014 when she won the 10th Franz Liszt Piano Competition. Chopin was just a year older than Liszt and the two became good friends in Paris. The two pianist-composers are, as Batsashvili explains, “very, very different in the way they express themselves, but I can hear in their music that they respected each other greatly.”
“Her technical prowess and ability to negotiate Liszt’s showy grandeur is a given, but her sense of his inner world, his wistful, nonchalant poetry – in the Grande études in A flat or the Consolations (Pensées poétiques) or the Polish Songs after Chopin – sets her apart as one to watch.” (The Observer)
Tracklist:
1. Harmonies poétiques et religieuses, S. 173: III. Bénédiction de Dieu dans la solitude (14:27)
2. 6 Polish Songs, S. 480: I. Mädchens Wunsch (Arr. Liszt after Chopin, Op. 74 No. 1) (03:03)
3. 6 Polish Songs, S. 480: II. Frühling (Arr. Liszt after Chopin, Op. 74 No. 2) (02:18)
4. 6 Polish Songs, S. 480: III. Das Ringlein (Arr. Liszt after Chopin, Op. 74 No. 14) (02:38)
5. 6 Polish Songs, S. 480: IV. Bacchanal (Arr. Liszt after Chopin, Op. 74 No. 4) (01:50)
6. 6 Polish Songs, S. 480: V. Meine Freuden (Arr. Liszt after Chopin Op. 74 No. 12) (04:02)
7. 6 Polish Songs, S. 480: VI. Die Heimkehr (Arr. Liszt after Chopin, Op. 74 No. 15) (01:43)
8. 6 Consolations, S. 172: I. Andante con moto (01:24)
9. 6 Consolations, S. 172: II. Un poco più mosso (02:54)
10. 6 Consolations, S. 172: III. Lento placido (03:40)
11. 6 Consolations, S. 172: IV. Quasi adagio, cantabile con divozione (02:46)
12. 6 Consolations, S. 172: V. Andantino (02:25)
13. 6 Consolations, S. 172: VI. Allegretto sempre cantabile (03:08)
14. 12 Etudes, Op. 10: No. 1 in C Major (02:16)
15. 12 Grandes Etudes, S. 137: No. 9 in A-Flat Major (11:01)
16. 12 Etudes, Op. 10: No. 2 in A Minor (01:39)
17. 12 Etudes, Op. 10: No. 4 in C-Sharp Minor (02:17)
18. 12 Grandes Etudes, S. 137: No. 10 in F Minor (06:12)
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