Franz Liszt - Piano Concertos № 1, 2 , 3

 

Franz Liszt 

 

(October 22, 1811 – July 31, 1886) 

19th-century Hungarian composer, virtuoso pianist, conductor, teacher and Franciscan tertiary.

 

 Piano Concertos №1-2 (E-flat major, A major)

Krystian Zimerman - piano
Boston Symphony Orchestra
conductor - Seiji Ozawa

      Piano Concerto No. 1 Es-dur, S. 124:
I. Allegro maestoso - 00:00
II. Quasi adagio — Allegretto vivace — Allegro animato - 05:32
III. Allegro marziale animato — Presto - 14:27

Piano Concerto No. 2 A-dur, S. 125:
I. Adagio sostenuto assai — Allegro agitato assai - 18:36
II. Allegro moderato — Allegro deciso - 26:03
III. Marziale un poco meno allegro - 34:23
IV. Allegro animato — Stretto - 38:46
Totentanz (Danse macabre), S. 126 - 40:37

 

Piano Concerto No. 1 in E flat major

 

Lang Lang performs Liszt Piano Concerto No. 1 in E flat major during Last Night Proms 2011

 inside the Royal Albert Hall. Edward Gardner conducts the BBC Symphony Orchestra.

 

 

Piano Concerto N. 2  in A major.

 

Performed by Georgii Cherkin - piano
Simphony Orchestra of Classic FM
Conducted by Luciano di Martino

Live Recording
Bulgaria Hall
2006 Sofia

                 

 

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Liszt piano concertos No.1&No.2 And Other

 

Piano:Krystian Zimermen
Orchestra:Boston Symphony
Conductor:Seji Ozawa

 

Piano Concerto No 3 E flat major Op posth

Franz Liszt's Piano Concerto No. 3 in E-flat major, Op. posth. (S.125a), was possibly composed in 1839. It is believed that this piece was composed before the first two concertos, but the dating is inconclusive as there are claims it was not finished until 1847. Like his second piano concerto, it is a one-movement piece.

Rediscovery

It was virtually unknown until 1989. It was identified and assembled from multiple sources by Jay Rosenblatt, a doctoral candidate at the University of Chicago. Parts of the score were located in Weimar, Nuremberg and Leningrad, and to the extent they were known at all, it had been assumed they were early drafts of Liszt’s Piano Concerto No. 1, also in E-flat major. Liszt made no mention of this third concerto in his writings, so the existence of the piece was unknown to researchers.^[1]

 

When Liszt died, his housekeeper let his pupils go through the house and take away manuscripts as mementos. These were not always complete scores. The Nuremberg sheet came from Max Erdmannsdörfer, who came into contact with Liszt while he was kapellmeister at Sondershausen. In 1882 he became kapellmeister in Moscow. It is possible that he had the whole score and that part of it eventually found its way to the Leningrad library after his death.^[1]

Performance history

The concerto was premiered by Janina Fialkowska on May 3, 1990, with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Kenneth Jean conducting.^[2][3]

It has not yet entered the standard repertoire, and remains little known, although there have been recordings by Janina Fialkowska, Jerome Lowenthal,^[2][4] Louis Lortie, Jenő Jandó, Leslie Howard,^[5] and Joshua Pierce.