Jan Michiels – The War of the Romantics (2016) [Official Digital Download 24bit/44,1kHz]

Jan Michiels – The War of the Romantics (2016)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 01:38:05 minutes | 782 MB | Genre: Classical, Piano
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Digital Booklet, Front Cover | © Fuga Libera

Franz Liszt drove a wedge between music fans open to innovative ideas and more traditional listeners. As the creator of the symphonic poem genre and programme music, he initiated a veritable trend of thought towards a new poetics. Inversely, partisans of Brahms felt that Liszt ran counter to the very essence of abstract music. On this digital only release, pianist Jan Michiels relives from the inside this “war of the Romantics” between progressives and conservatives through refined, intelligent readings of works by Liszt, Brahms and Schumann. But the pianist also offers a reconciliation from Schönberg, in its transcription for solo piano, combining the “traditional” on the motif with a form based on Liszt’s strokes of inspiration.

Tracklist:

01. Jan Michiels – Piano Sonata in B Minor, S. 178 (28:11)
02. Jan Michiels – Fünf Gesänge der Frühe, Op. 133: I. Im ruhigen Tempo (D Major) (02:42)
03. Jan Michiels – Fünf Gesänge der Frühe, Op. 133: II. Belebt, nicht zu rasch (D Major) (02:08)
04. Jan Michiels – Fünf Gesänge der Frühe, Op. 133: III. Lebhaft (A Major) (02:24)
05. Jan Michiels – Fünf Gesänge der Frühe, Op. 133: IV. Bewegt (A Major) (02:49)
06. Jan Michiels – Fünf Gesänge der Frühe, Op. 133: V. Im Anfange ruhiges, im Verlauf bewegtes Tempo (D Major) (02:47)
07. Jan Michiels – Variations on a Theme by Robert Schumann in F-Sharp Minor, Op. 9 (17:10)
08. Jan Michiels – Kammersymphonie No. 1, Op. 9 (Transcription Eduard Steuermann) (21:20)
09. Jan Michiels – Gretchen, Zweiter Satz aus der Faust-Symphonie, S. 513 (18:28)

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