Franz Liszt

Franz Liszt, Un Cycle imaginaire, Complete French Songs

Katharina Konradi & Daniel Heide

Label: CAvi
Format: CD
Barcode: 0028948680245

Catalog number: AVI 4868024
Releasedate: 28-11-25

- Songs/Lieder by Franz LISZT are really many around, only we don't really know them;
in particular the French Songs for Soprano are a real discovery; Katharina Konradi
likes her specifically.

- Many Lieder by Liszt are available in different versions, same text but different music, here
recorded in early and later versions.

- KATHARINA KONRADI, Soprano, counts these days as one of the leading soprano
voices, Europ wide as well as world wide. Next to her magnificent and exciting
performances in various opera production in London, Zürich, Munich, Vienna and
Tokyo, she love to donate a lot of time to the Lieder repertoire.

The last recording on
CAvi - LIEBE (LOVE) - already proves that she and her Piano partner DANIEL HEIDE are
going along together extremely well. LIEBE (CAvi_8553171 / Streaming: 8553599)

Franz Liszt: Complete French Songs for Soprano, Vol. 3

This volume carries the header of a "Cycle imaginaire", based on textes by Victor Hugo who seems to have been the most important poet for Franz Liszt.All Lieder textes in German/French/English here: https://avi-music.de/html/lyrics/cycle_imaginaire.html

"The 3rd volume of our complete recording of Franz Liszt’s art songs is exclusively devoted to vocal settings of poems in French. Liszt was one of the few Central European composers of his time who not only mastered the French language in addition to German but was also an avid reader of contemporary French poetry. Multilingualism was relatively uncommon in the mid-1800s; Liszt was a rather exceptional polyglot, just like his pupil Pauline Viardot (1821-1910), who composed art songs in each of the six languages she fluently spoke.........

Liszt’s songs have been handed down to us in several variants and versions. Thus, in this third volume, we once more had to decide whether to select one “definitive” version or offer our listeners the enriching occasion to hear several alternatives.

We decided to create an imaginary song cycle of Victor Hugo settings. Admittedly, Liszt never wrote concept-oriented song cycles like those of Schubert or Schumann, but we chose to combine all of his Hugo settings (excepting Gastibelza) in a collage-like succession......In most cases, we have chosen the songs’ last versions. " .....read more (Excerpt from the booket notes by Daniel Heide)

Vol. 1 Liszt, Petrarca Sonettes Nos 47 . 104 . 123 (Andrè Schuen; Daniel Heide)
Vol. 2 Liszt, Der Du von dem Himmel bist (Konstantin Krimmel; Daniel Heide)