1st piano concerto (Liszt)

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Franz Liszt, Piano Concerto No. 1, 1st movement, main theme

Franz Liszt created the first sketches for the Piano Concerto No. 1 in E flat major in 1832. It was revised and in the third version known today on February 17, 1855 in the “Small Hall” of the Weimar Palace under the direction of Hector Berlioz and the Composer himself premiered as soloists.

The exact name of the work reads (first published in 1857 by Haslinger in Vienna): First Concert for Pianoforte and Orchestra. Henry Litolff appropriated by F. Liszt.

Sentence names

Sentences 1 and 2
Sentences 3 and 4
  1. Allegro maestoso
  2. Quasi adagio
  3. Allegretto vivace - allegro animato
  4. Allegro marziale animato

The sentences merge into one another, the only turning point is the transition from the third to the fourth movement. A discussion regarding the three or four movements of the work is largely ruled out. It is true that in the first surviving version of the concerto the measure numbers of the second and third movements merge and were therefore evidently designed as a unit. The four-movement basic motif of the version from the world premiere in 1855 is, however, documented biographically and can be read in letters. Liszt speaks of the 4th movement of the concert of the Allegro marziale , also of the 2nd movement of the Adagio and Scherzo in E flat minor from the beginning of the triangle .

Discography

  • Géza Anda, Otto Ackermann / Philharmonia Orchestra (EMI) [7./8.V.1955]
  • Nareh Arghamanyan, Alain Altinoglu / Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin (PentaTone) [IV / 2012]
  • Martha Argerich, Claudio Abbado / London Symphony Orchestra (DG) [12.II.1968]
  • Claudio Arrau, Hans Rosbaud / RSO Frankfurt (RRG) [15.V.1935]
  • Claudio Arrau, Eugene Ormandy / The Philadelphia Orchestra (Columbia) [17.II.1952]
  • Claudio Arrau, Colin Davis / London Symphony Orchestra (Philips) [12. – 14.XII.1979]
  • Daniel Barenboim, Pierre Boulez / Staatskapelle Dresden (DG) [VI / 2011]
  • Emanuel Ax, Esa-Pekka Salonen / Philharmonia Orchestra (Sony) [1993]
  • Boris Berezovsky, Hugh Wolff / Philharmonia Orchestra (Teldec) [XII / 1994]
  • Michel Béroff, Kurt Masur / Gewandhausorchester Leipzig (EMI) [XII / 1978 & VI / 1979]
  • Lazar Berman, Carlo Maria Giulini / Vienna Symphony Orchestra (DG) [VI / 1976]
  • Bertrand Chamayou, Jérémie Rhorer / Le Cercle de l'Harmonie (Ambroisie) [16.X.2011]
  • Shura Cherkassky, Anatole Fistoulari / Philharmonia Orchestra (HMV) [10. – 15.IV.1952]
  • Shura Cherkassky, Heinz Wallberg / Bamberger Symphoniker (World Record Club / EMI) [VI / 1964]
  • France Clidat, Roger Norrington / Residentie Orkest Den Haag (Decca) [XI / 1975]
  • France Clidat, Pierre Cao / Orchester Symphonique de Radio-Télé-Luxembourg (Forlane) [IX / 1982]
  • György Cziffra, Pierre Dervaux / Orchester National de la Radiodiffusion Française (Pathé) [28./29.I. & 1.II.1957]
  • György Cziffra, André Vandernoot / Philharmonia Orchestra (HMV) [I / 1961]
  • György Cziffra, György Cziffra Jr./Orchestre de Paris (HMV) [4.IV.1969]
  • Ivan Davis, Edward Downes / Royal Philharmonic Orchestra (Decca) [1972]
  • Barry Douglas, Jun'ichi Hirokami / London Symphony Orchestra (RCA / BMG) [15. & 17.II.1989]
  • Sergio Fiorentino, Erich Riede / Hamburg Pro Musica (Saga) [10.VII.1958]
  • Annie Fischer, Otto Klemperer / Philharmonia Orchestra (EMI) [V / 1960 & V / 1962]
  • Walter Gieseking, Henry Wood / London Philharmonic Orchestra (HMV) [31.X.1932]
  • Alexis Golovin, Paul Freeman / London Symphony Orchestra (Centaur) [19.II.1988]
  • Horacio Gutiérrez, André Previn / London Symphony Orchestra (HMV) [11. – 13.XII.1975]
  • Stephen Hough, Andrew Litton / Bergen Filharmoniske Orkester (Hyperion) [14./16.VI.2011]
  • Byron Janis, Kirill Kondrashin / Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra (Mercury) [14./15.VI.1962]
  • Julius Katchen, Ataúlfo Argenta / London Philharmonic Orchestra (Decca) [I / 1957]
  • Wilhelm Kempff, Anatole Fistoulari / London Symphony Orchestra (Decca) [2. & 4.VI.1954]
  • Zoltán Kocsis, Iván Fischer / Budapest Festival Orchestra (Philips) [XII / 1988]
  • Mischa Levitzki, Landon Ronald / London Symphony Orchestra (HMV) [11. & 14.XI.1929]
  • Mikhail Lidsky, Vladimir Ponkin / Tchaikovsky Symphony Orchestra (Denon) [30.IV.1997]
  • Louis Lortie, George Pehlivanian / Residentie Orkest Den Haag (Chandos) [22.-24.VI.2000]
  • John Ogdon, Constantin Silvestri / Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra (BBC Legends) [20.IX.1967]
  • Leonard Pennario, René Leibowitz / London Symphony Orchestra (RCA) [13. – 16.III.1963]
  • Svyatoslaw Richter, Kirill Kondraschin / London Symphony Orchestra (Philips) [19. – 21.VII.1961]
  • Artur Rubinstein, Antal Dorati / Dallas Symphony Orchestra (RCA) [11.II.1947]
  • Artur Rubinstein, Alfred Wallenstein / RCA Symphony Orchestra (RCA) [12.II.1956]
  • Emil von Sauer, Felix Weingartner / Orchester de la Société des Concerts du Conservatoire, Paris (Columbia) [XII / 1938]
  • Kazune Shimizu, Michael Tilson Thomas / London Symphony Orchestra (CBS / Sony) [10./11.II.1986]
  • Jean-Yves Thibaudet, Charles Dutoit / Orchester Symphonique de Montréal (Decca) [V & X / 1990]
  • Earl Wild, Malcolm Sargent / Royal Philharmonic Orchestra (RCA) [9./10.X.1962]
  • Krystian Zimerman, Seiji Ozawa / Boston Symphony Orchestra (DG) [IV / 1987]

literature

  • Hans Engel : The Development of the German Piano Concerto from Mozart to Liszt. Leipzig 1927.
  • Martin Juan Koch: The 19th Century Piano Concerto and the Symphonic Category. On the history of composition and reception of the genre from Mozart to Brahms. Edited by Detlef Altenburg (= music and view of music in the 19th century 8), Sinzig 2001, ISBN 3-89564-060-3 .
  • Martin Juan Koch: Franz Liszt and the piano concerto in the second half of the 19th century. In: Liszt and the New German School. Edited by Detlef Altenburg (= Weimar Liszt Studies Volume 3), Laaber 2006, pp. 143–169, ISBN 3-89007-656-4 .
  • Helmut Loos: Piano Concerts in the 19th Century. Franz Liszt and Felix Draeseke. In: Contributions to the history of the concert. Festschrift Siegfried Kross for his 60th birthday. Edited by Reinmar Emans and Matthias Wendt, Bonn 1990, pp. 302-318, ISBN 3-926196-14-9 .

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