Liszt Metamorphosis—Charlotte Hu, piano (PentaTone 259)
Taiwanese American pianist Charlotte Hu opened the 12 Annuel Philadelphia Young Pianists’ Academy Festival this summer playing the program contained on this digital-only release. The recital booklet contained this from the artist, “In this program, each piece is intricately connected and seamlessly linked to the next, making the whole album a journey. Liszt is portrayed here as a composer of transformation, from his spiritual late work to heartfelt lieder transcriptions, to storied Concert Etudes and virtuosically brilliant Spanish Rhapsody. This is a journey of metamorphosis of the soul and heart.”
Franz Liszt (1811-1886)
Les jeux d'eau à la Villa d'Este, from Années de pèlerinage, S. 163 — Troisième année
Five Lieder Transcriptions:
Leise flehen meine Lieder (F. Schubert)
Auf dem Wasser zu Singen (F. Schubert)
Ave Maria (F. Schubert)
Erlkönig (F. Schubert)
Widmung (R. Schumann)
Three Concert Études, S. 144:
Il lamento
La leggierrezza
Un sospiro
Rhapsodie espagnole, S. 254