Dejan Lazic - Life, Love & Afterlife' A Liszt recital (2017)

Dejan Lazic; on this, his first album for ONYX, pays tribute to a composer and his legacy as a piano virtuoso, organist, improviser, arranger, conductor, teacher, author, philanthropist and traveller. Liszt lived life to the full, and this recital captures that love of life, his genius as a pianist and composer, a traveller with a restless and curious mind. Liszt’s respect for the music of other composers is to be found in his arrangements for piano of orchestral, operatic and other vocal works. From Wagner’s operas to Schubert Lieder via Beethoven Symphonies, his deep love for the music is apparent and such arrangements gave this music a wider audience in both the salons and domestic settings that lives on today.

"Embarking on a recording project like this obviously required a substantial amount of preparation time. But once the date has come it was of a tremendous importance to capture and to honour the spontaneity of Liszt’s versatile, eclectic, and revolutionary genius", writes Dejan in his introduction to the recital, captured at a live performance at Hohenhems, and one further day in studio conditions.

TRACKLIST
01. Hungarian Rhapsody No. 18, S. 244/18
02. Two Csárdás, S. 225
03. Années de Pèlerinage III, S. 163: IV. Les Jeux d'eaux à la Villa d'Este
04. Concert Paraphrase after Verdi's Rigoletto, S. 434
05. Années de pèlerinage II, Venezia e Napoli, S. 162: I. Gondoliera
06. Années de pèlerinage II, Venezia e Napoli, S. 162: II. Canzone
07. Années de pèlerinage II, Venezia e Napoli, S. 162: III. Tarantella
08. Soirées de Vienne, S. 427: VI. Valse-Caprice (after Franz Schubert)
09. 12 Lieder von Franz Schubert, S. 558: IV. Erlkönig (after Franz Schubert)
10. Confutatis maledictis und Lacrymosa, after Mozart's Requiem in D Minor, S. 550
11. Liebestraum, S. 541: III. Notturno
12. Fantasy on motifs from Wagner's Rienzi, S. 439: Santo Spirito Cavaliere
13. Isoldens Liebestod from Wagner's Final Scene from Tristan und Isolde, S. 447
14. O du mein holder Abendstern from Wagner's Tannhaüser, S. 444 (Bonus Track)