Liszt ou la tentation de l'univeralité (Liszt or The Temptation of Universality) - Thomas Monnet, organ

Doing away with borders and, more generally, with limits seems to lie at the core of Franz Liszt’s life and works. His relationships with the music of his predecessors and contemporaries, or the frequent bridges between his work and literature, inform a decidedly all-encompassing perception of this precocious European. So it is with the four major pieces brought together in this volume which – particularly through the recurrent use of borrowed thematic material (Bach, Allegri, Mozart, Meyerbeer) – give a foretaste of his intention to fold his work into an intemporal and unified music.

Thomas Monnet, orgue

Franz Liszt (1811-1886)
1.    Präludium und Fuge über das Thema B-A-C-H    12'13
2.    Evocation à la Chapelle Sixtine    13'44
3.    Weinen, Klagen, Sorgen, Zagen    17'08
4.    Fantasie und Fuge über den Choral Ad nos, ad salutarem undam    28'56