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Liszt: Années de pèlerinage, 1st year, Switzerland - Bénédiction de Dieu dans la solitude / Owen
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Liszt: Années de pèlerinage, 1st year, Switzerland - Bénédiction de Dieu dans la solitude / Owen

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Details

Composer
LISZT, FRANZ
Artist
Charles Owen
Format
CD
Label
Avie Records
Released
Sep 17, 2021
Catalog #
AV2476
UPC
822252247626

About

With his critically acclaimed AVIE Records recordings of music by Johann Sebastian Bach, Johannes Brahms, Gabriel Faure´ and Sergei Rachmaninov to his credit, the celebrated British pianist Charles Owen scales the heights of Franz Liszt’s anthology Annees de pelerinage, Premiere annee: Suisse (“Years of Travel, First Year: Switzerland”), which evokes the great 19th-century pianist-composer’s Swiss sojourns with aural impressions of the Alpine landscape, its peaks and valleys, mountains and streams, and the country’s distinctive folk music. Literary references abound as they do in the album’s concluding piece, the emotional Benediction de Dieu dans la solitude (“The Blessing of God in Solitude”) which was inspired by a poem penned by Liszt’s friend Alphonse de Lamartine. Emotions ran equally high for Charles Owen who turned to Liszt during lockdown. The uncertainty of being homebound throughout the pandemic was eased by the extra meaning and solace of the composer’s evocations of journeying, experiencing the natural world and its sense of beauty and liberation.

Tracklist 10 tracks

  1. 1 No. 1. La chapelle de Guillaume Tell (The Chapel of William Tell) 05:30
    Track
    1
    Title
    No. 1. La chapelle de Guillaume Tell (The Chapel of William Tell)
    Duration
    05:30
    Composer
    Franz Liszt
    Performer
    Charles Owen
  2. 2 No. 2. Au lac de Wallenstadt (At the Lake of Wallenstadt) 03:50
    Track
    2
    Title
    No. 2. Au lac de Wallenstadt (At the Lake of Wallenstadt)
    Duration
    03:50
    Composer
    Franz Liszt
    Performer
    Charles Owen
  3. 3 No. 3. Pastorale (Pastoral) 01:51
    Track
    3
    Title
    No. 3. Pastorale (Pastoral)
    Duration
    01:51
    Composer
    Franz Liszt
    Performer
    Charles Owen
  4. 4 No. 4. Au bord d'une source (Beside a Spring) 04:34
    Track
    4
    Title
    No. 4. Au bord d'une source (Beside a Spring)
    Duration
    04:34
    Composer
    Franz Liszt
    Performer
    Charles Owen
  5. 5 No. 5. Orage (Storm) 04:39
    Track
    5
    Title
    No. 5. Orage (Storm)
    Duration
    04:39
    Composer
    Franz Liszt
    Performer
    Charles Owen
  6. 6 No. 6. Vallée d'Obermann (Valley of Obermann) 14:30
    Track
    6
    Title
    No. 6. Vallée d'Obermann (Valley of Obermann)
    Duration
    14:30
    Composer
    Franz Liszt
    Performer
    Charles Owen
  7. 7 No. 7. Églogue (Eclogue) 03:21
    Track
    7
    Title
    No. 7. Églogue (Eclogue)
    Duration
    03:21
    Composer
    Franz Liszt
    Performer
    Charles Owen
  8. 8 No. 8. Le mal du pays (Homesickness) 05:43
    Track
    8
    Title
    No. 8. Le mal du pays (Homesickness)
    Duration
    05:43
    Composer
    Franz Liszt
    Performer
    Charles Owen
  9. 9 No. 9. Les cloches de Genève (The Bells of Geneva) 06:13
    Track
    9
    Title
    No. 9. Les cloches de Genève (The Bells of Geneva)
    Duration
    06:13
    Composer
    Franz Liszt
    Performer
    Charles Owen
  10. 10 Harmonies poétiques et religieuses, S173/R14: III. Bénédiction de Dieu dans la solitude 17:32
    Track
    10
    Title
    Harmonies poétiques et religieuses, S173/R14: III. Bénédiction de Dieu dans la solitude
    Duration
    17:32
    Composer
    Franz Liszt
    Performer
    Charles Owen