LISZT: ONCE UPON A TIME - MICHEL DALBERTO

After an album devoted to Beethoven, Michel Dalberto returns to the world of Liszt, with the immense Sonata in B minor forming the centrepiece of his new disc. The composer was a visionary, but also a prodigious ‘storyteller’. The French pianist’s interpretation reveals both strands in the work, while also bringing out to the full the formidable, spectacular virtuosity of the four Études d’exécution transcendante and the poetic profundity of Vallée d’Obermann. This recording was made on a splendid Carl Bechstein piano.

ANNÉES DE PÈLERINAGE, PREMIÈRE ANNÉE, « SUISSE », S.160
Vallée d’Obermann, S.160/6 13’16


ÉTUDES D’EXÉCUTION TRANSCENDANTE, S.139 30’22
Paysage, S.139/3 5’08
Mazeppa, S.139/4 8’34
Ricordanza, S.139/9 11’10
Chasse-neige, S.139/12 5’30


SONATA IN B MINOR, S.178
Lento assai 12’12
Andante sostenuto 6’56
Allegro energico 10’52