Poetic Liszt
Poetic Liszt reveals the more intimate and spiritually contemplative side of Franz Liszt’s oevre as a composer whose music was profoundly shaped by literature, religious experience, visual art, and the landscapes through which he travelled.
Performed by Boris Bloch, the internationally acclaimed pianist and pedagogue, the programme includes meditations from Harmonies poétiques et religieuses, paraphrases and works inspired by spiritual themes, as well as selections from Années de pèlerinage, in which Liszt transforms the personal experience of travel into musical poetry. Blending contemplation, memory, vivid imagery, and virtuosity, the concert reveals Liszt as a composer who turned the piano into a medium for both profound inner drama and quiet spiritual reflection.
Programme
- Franz Liszt: Bénédiction de Dieu dans la solitude and Funérailles from Harmonies poétiques et religieuses
- Franz Liszt: 2 Konzertetüden (Waldesrauschen, Gnomenreigen)
- Giuseppe Verdi / Franz Liszt: Miserere from the opera Il trovatore
- Franz Liszt: Selection from Années de pèlerinage – Chapelle de Guillaume Tell, Sposalizio, Sonetto 104 del Petrarca, Les jeux d’eau à la Villa d’Este
- Franz Liszt: Appassionata from the Transcendental Études