NEW • NOUVEAUTE • NEUHEIT 04/11-(6) Franz Liszt (1811-1886) Orchestral Works Totentanz. Paraphrase on “Dies irae” for Piano and Orchestra Tasso - Lamento e Trionfo Die Trauergondel II + Works for Piano solo Claudius Tanski, piano Beethoven Orchester Bonn Stefan Blunier, cond. 1 Hybrid-SACD Order No.: MDG 937 1678-6 UPC-Code: Bicentennial Bash Happy birthday, Franz Liszt! The Beethoven “Es ist genug” from the cantata “O Ewigkeit, Du Orchestra Bonn under its conductor Stefan Blunier Donnerwort” harmonizing perfectly with Liszt’s late and the pianist Claudius Tanski present orchestral works. works and piano music by this Austro-Hungarian great, including the overture to Goethe’s Torquato Resplendent Repertoire Tasso and the Totentanz of 1849, on the occasion of Stefan Blunier has compiled an impressive the two hundredth anniversary of his birth. A finely discography during the short time that he has headed nuanced extra comes in the form of an orchestration his Beethoven Orchestra in Bonn. He recently of La lugubre gondola by John Adams. released rarely heard orchestral works by Anton Bruckner on MDG. This carefully produced disc also Triumphant Light displays all the outstanding qualities of this orchestra. “Through the night to the light” might serve as this With this recording Claudius Tanski adds to his recording’s motto. As Liszt himself stated, his repertoire of more than twenty MDG CDs that have symphonic poem Tasso – Lamento e Trionfo was received outstanding reviews worldwide and based on the idea of a “genius not recognized in life numerous prizes. but surrounded by radiant glory in death.” And even in the Totentanz, probably the birthday boy’s most Anton Bruckner famous creation in the field of concertante music, Symphony D minor „Nullte“ WAB 100 hope is clearly recognizable in some of the variations March WAB 96 on the Dies irae. 3 Pieces WAB 97 Beethoven Orchester Bonn Night Lament Stefan Blunier, cond. Claudius Tanski has selected three piano pieces by MDG 937 1673-6 (Hybrid-SACD) Liszt, each progressive in its own different way, in part stamped by grief and resignation, for his tribute to the Eugen d’Albert two-hundred-year-old. This mood applies especially to Der Golem. Drama in 3 Acts La lugubre gondola, which is heard in the piano Soloists, Choir of the THEATER BONN version as well as in the orchestration by John Beethoven Orchester Bonn Adams. Tanski complements these pieces with Stefan Blunier, cond. supreme art in Recueillement and Sursum corda and MDG 937 1637-6 (2 Hybrid-SACDs) with the piano transcription of the Bach chorale DABRINGHAUS UND GRIMM AUDIOVISION GMBH • BACHSTRASSE 35 • D-32756 DETMOLD TEL.: ++49-(0)5231-93890 • FAX.: ++49-(0)5231-26186 • [email protected] • www.mdg.de .