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Feb 1, 2015 · The British-Canadian pianist’s virtuosic negotiation of Liszt’s ‘wild’ music belies an early antipathy towards the composer, writes Fiona Maddocks
Feb 10, 2015 · Listen to Liszt: Piano Sonata, Dante Sonata & Petrarch Sonnets by Angela Hewitt on Apple Music. 2015. 9 Songs. Duration: 1 hour, 14 minutes. Album · 2015 · 9 Songs
Feb 10, 2015 · Liszt: Piano Sonata; Dante Sonata; Petrarch Sonnets by Angela Hewitt released in 2015. Find album reviews, track lists, credits, awards and more at...
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Liszt found big ideas irresistible. That other marathon, the Dante Sonata, compresses The Divine Comedy into a single movement, from the grumbling horrors of Hell to the benediction of Paradise. The harmonies, full of tritones, are wild and remote. Virtuosity is only the start. Here, in the B minor sonata and in the three youthful Petrarch ...
Liszt: Piano Sonata in B Minor, S. 178: IVb. Allegro energico – Pi mosso. 6:16 5. Liszt: Piano Sonata in B Minor, S. 178: V. Andante sostenuto
Angela Hewitt’s notes for this important new album describe a teenager’s moment of revelation when she first came to appreciate the epic masterpiece that is the Liszt Piano Sonata. Here we have a heart-felt recording where this palpable sense of wonder is manifest alongside Hewitt’s enthralling technical facility at the keyboard.
In her booklet note Angela Hewitt identifies Liszt’s lifelong absorption in music by Beethoven and Bach, and her approach to the B minor Sonata reveals a work much closer, in its virtuoso way, to Beethoven than to vintage Liszt barnstormers like the Transcendental Studies. Hewitt allows its huge single-movement span to unfold with a sense of space and a purposeful clarity &ndash ...
