Muses – Franz Liszt
Muses – Franz Liszt
Composer Liszt
Genre Récital
Format CD
Release date 13 septembre 2024
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All his life, Liszt never ceased loving and being loved. This programme is intended as a portrait of Liszt’s love affairs through the prism of the works inspired by these muses who traversed his life. We first meet the composer with Countess Marie d’Agoult: their idyllic escapade in the Swiss Alps produced the Première Année de Pèlerinage. The last affair of Liszt, by then an abbé in minor orders, was with Baroness Olga von Meyendorff, to whom he dedicated the magnificent and rarely heard Impromptu subtitled ‘Nocturne’. Finally, the programme evokes his long, fruitful relationship with Princess Carolyne zu Sayn-Wittgenstein, whose aura and erudition stimulated him to compose his greatest masterpieces, among them the Harmonies poétiques et religieuses and the monumental Sonata in B minor. Tanguy de Williencourt displays all the ardour and faith these remarkable works call for.