Format | Audio CD |
Ordering Number | OC 786 |
Barcode | 4260034867864 |
label | OehmsClassics |
Release date | 3/8/2011 |
salesrank | 11035 |
Players/Contributors | Musicians
Composer
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Franz Liszt
Années de Pèlerinage, Première Année – Suisse
Les Jeux d’Eau à la Villa d’Este (aus Années de Pèlerinage –
Troisième Année)
Performed on Richard Wagner‘s 1876 Steinway in Haus Wahnfried,
Bayreuth
Tomas Dratva, piano
I miss the piano like I miss a beloved woman; I miss it
profoundly; I have not been able to make music since it
is gone. These were Wagner’s words in March 1879,
when he had to do without the instrument with the
serial number 34304 that had been given to him
by the New York piano builders. This instrument is
maintained to this very day in mint condition in Haus
Wahnfried in Bayreuth. Franz Liszt was among the
signifi cant pianists who regularly played on this instrument
during visits and private concert recitals.
For his new CD, Tomas Dratva searched through
original source material in the double sense of the
word: In the St. Petersburg Siloti Archive, he studied
the autograph of Liszt’s “Années de Pèlerinage”, which
shows distinct departures from later printed editions.
To make this textual authenticity resound, he decided
to record the work on the Wagner Steinway in the
Haus Wahnfried. The mutual interplay between instrument
and interpretation is elucidated in detail in
the CD booklet.