COMPOSERS: Liszt,Mendelssohn and Wagner
LABELS: Edelweiss
WORKS: Consolations; Gondellieder; Piano Sonata in A flat; Albumblätter; Lied ohne Worte; March to the Holy Grail; Isolde’s Liebestod
PERFORMER: Daniel Levy (piano)
CATALOGUE NO: ED 5024 DDD
Argentine-Italian pianist Daniel Levy gathers together pieces by Liszt, Mendelssohn and Wagner, inspired – directly and indirectly – by Venice. This is the Venice of high Romanticism, refracted through a Germanic sensibility which is reflected in Levy’s grandiloquent playing. The collection is enjoyable, nevertheless, and culminates in two of Liszt’s most accomplished transcriptions – from Parsifal and Tristan – which Levy performs with concentration and assurance. William Humphreys-Jones