LISZT
Organ Works
played by Nicholas Kynaston
Guild GMCD 7210
Crotchet
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1 |
Excelsior! S 666 |
[3:41] |
2 |
Am Grabe Richard Wagners S 267 |
[3:45] |
3 |
Funérailles from Harmonies Poétiques
et Religieuses S 173
(Transcribed for organ by Nicolas Kynaston) |
[12:58] |
4 |
Trauerode from Zwei Vortragsstücke für
Orgel S 268 |
[9:58] |
5 |
Orpheus S 98 (Transcribed for organ by
Gottschalg and Liszt) |
[12:18] |
| |
Fantasia & Fugue on "Ad nos, ad salutarem
undam" S 259 |
|
6 |
Fantasia |
[10:35] |
7 |
Adagio |
[12:31] |
8 |
Fugue |
[9:16] |
One of my treasured memories of a recent Southwark Festival was of Nicholas
Kynaston playing major works by Liszt (not normally one of my favourite
composers) at the Cathedral, combining richness of colour with lucidity.
These are included in this marvellous recording on a 1977 Klais organ. The
recording quality is magnificent; detail is not obscured despite the long
reverberation period in Ingolstadt Münster, a considerable achievement.
The culmination of the programme is the huge Fantasia and Fugue Ad nos,
ad salutarem undam (32 mins, including a central Adagio)) developed
from a chorale in Meyerbeer's Le Prophete. Of particular interest
are two transcriptions for organ, Funérailles , in memory of
Chopin, with a passage clearly alluding to the Ab Polonaise, and the
affecting orchestral Symphonic Poem Orpheus, a favourite of Beecham's
(& of mine), considered by Wagner Liszt's finest work, which goes wonderfully
well on the organ.
If you are beginning to feel there has been too much Bach last year, try
this for something completely different and of great distinction.
Peter Grahame Woolf
