László Fenyö

László Fenyö, Julia Okruashvili – Harmonies Hongroises (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:03:45 minutes | 1,03 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Digital Booklet, Front Cover | © Ars Produktion

“During these entire dozen years which I spent in Weimar, there was one great idea valways on my mind – the reformation of music through its deeper bond with the art of poetry”, Franz Liszt wrote in a letter from 1860 to his piano student and close friend Agnes Street-Klindworth (1825-1906). But Liszt ́s entire artistic life shifted even more in the field of tension between art and religion, between freedom of expression and the strictness of dogmatic limitations. This artistic credo not least becomes clear in his large-scale piano cycle Harmonies poétiques et religieuses S.273. This varied piano cycle, dating back to the year 1835, relates to a poetry collection by the French poet Alphonse de Lamartine (1790-1869) and combines great concert pieces (f.e. Bénédiction de Dieu dans la solitude or Funérailles) with simple and shorter compositions partly including Gregorian melodies.
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