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- Liszt - Soirées de Vienne (Valses-caprices d'après François Schubert)
The Soirées de Vienne addressed such a real need and an obvious difficulty that their present neglect is quite shameful. Schubert produced several hundreds of short dance pieces for piano, many of them in sets which were possibly intended for continuous dancing or domestic entertainment but which are, because of their individual brevity, the sameness of their length, and their often unvaried tonality, very awkward to programme in concert. For the same reason the few surviving dance sets for piano by Mozart and Beethoven are largely ignored by recitalists. But these dances contain a wealth of delightful music which, as Liszt perceived from the beginning with his customary astuteness, requires rescuing and assorting with discreet habiliments for public use. Liszt concocted continuous suites from selected dances, often making a better point than Schubert did of the sheer originality of them by the use of contrasting tonality, and from time to time allowing himself the occasional variation, introduction, interlude or coda. Schubert’s sometimes rather rudimentary style of piano writing is generously and touchingly filled out without the slightest recourse to the applause-gathering trickery to which many a nineteenth-century piano waltz falls victim. These refined waltz sequences laid the ground for the structures of some of the most memorable of the Strauss waltzes, and find echoes as late as Prokofiev. The adventures of the various dances are easily followed and, for the comfort of the searchers amongst the available sources, Schubert’s original themes are identified in each work in the order in which Liszt has them appear.
In all, Liszt uses thirty-five Schubert dances from seven different sets. No 1 of these nine Valses-Caprices is based upon three, No 2 upon six (with an extra theme at the coda of Liszt’s own devising, but most Schubertian nonetheless), No 3 upon seven themes (the fifth of which combines two to make one), Nos 4 and 5 upon just two apiece, Nos 6 and 7 each upon three, No 8 upon seven, and No 9, which is a piece apart, upon just one. No 9 is really an original set of variations with an introduction and coda upon the so-called Trauerwalzer from Schubert’s Op 9, and if Liszt had not called it a transcription it would have found its way into the canon of his original works without question. The shape of the set overall presents two groups of three where a more extrovert work with introduction and coda follows two intimate pieces which concentrate upon gentle, lyric pieces, then a contrasting pair, the second of which is the grandest of the whole collection, and finally the delicate pendant of the variations in No 9. Liszt aficionados will recall that the second theme of No 4 had already appeared in the third of the Apparitions (see Volume 26 of this series) - so Liszt clearly knew these dances by 1834 at the latest - and the first theme of that piece is introduced with a gesture obviously intended to show a relationship with Beethoven’s Sonata, Op 31 No 3. No 6 of the Soirées de Vienne was a great favourite in Liszt’s day and was much recorded earlier in the twentieth century. (Howard)
0:00:00 I. Allegretto malinconico (Clidat)
0:07:37 II. Poco Allegro (Jandó)
0:15:55 III. Allegro vivace (Clidat)
0:24:44 IV. Andantino a capriccio (Jandó)
0:30:41 V. Moderato cantabile con affetto (Clidat)
0:39:51 VI. Allegro con strepito, First version (Horowitz)
0:46:55 VII. Allegro spiritoso (Horowitz)
0:53:19 VIII. Allegro con brio (Jandó)
1:03:12 IX. Preludio a capriccio (Clidat)
Thank you very much for a beautiful piece, everyone - for a wonderful performance, dd - for an interesting description, I listen - and put it on repeat again and again)
France Clidat is my favourite Liszt player ever
Thank you for posting! France Clidat's recording of the entire 9-piece set/cycle is my go-to version, so it was nice to see her so well-represented here. (The full Clidat interpretation is elsewhere on TH-cam.) Also worth finding - I believe it's also posted on TH-cam - is the complete recording by Edith Farnadi.
Yes, I've also heard all of Clidat's recording, and especially her no.3 and 9 are utterly wonderful. actually, performer of each pieces were selected based on my preferences :)
Fantastic upload, thank you so much! I have never heard the entire set together before. I've known and enjoyed Nos. 3, 4 and the legendary No. 6 before, but Nos. 7, 8 and 9 might be my new favourites, such wonderful compilations of Schubert's brilliance, curated by Liszt with love.
As for the recordings, I find myself more aligned with Jandó and Horowitz than with Clidat - though I love her passion and spontaneous individuality, for me she sometimes distorts the rhythm a bit too much (to a point that it starts bothering me). But that's just a matter of taste, of course she plays these works fantastically.
That's exactly the reason I used perfomances of 3 pianists in a complete set. Clidat's is surely awesome, but some point her rhythm was a bit bothering to appreciate the whole music. (e.g., no.2, as I remember)
Why does the 4th one open like Beethoven's 18th sonata lol
Probably hinting at the Beethoven/Schubert relation. We can hear echoes of Beethoven in Schubert's music.
this is immediately what I thought of -- nearly brought a tear to my eye as it took me back to the early days of my piano study. I still love that sonata!
God damn!! Thank you so much!!!
4 and 6 are probably the best… Liszt really did well with these pieces!
Son geniales y es la primera vez que los escucho...
Es increíble pero parece como si escucho un vals venezolano...
Mitigé
wow.
24:44 Wait... so that means that Beethoven got his idea for his Sonata from Schubert? Which wouldn't be too much of a surprise given how much of an influence Schubert was to Beethoven.
Are you high? It's the other way round.
oh...それは勘違いだ...
The 4th piece sounds like Beethoven 18th sonata 1st mvt.
Liszt + Schubert = Chopin
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5番はアルカンのop35を思い出させる
42:18
Unbelievably cute and tender...only Horowitz ❤
That's #13 from Schubert's Valses Sentimentales.
😂😂😂😂 oiy