COMPOSERS: Liszt
LABELS: Praga Digitals
ALBUM TITLE: Liszt
WORKS: Les Préludes; Tasso, Lamento e trionfo; Mazeppa; Die Ideale
PERFORMER: RIAS Berlin Symph Orch/Fricsay; Prague Radio Symph Orch/Macura; Berlin Phil/Karajan; Bavarian Radio SO/Kubelík
CATALOGUE NO: PRD/DSD 350124 (hybrid CD/SACD) (1956-75)
Fricsay’s stunningly intense Les Préludes opens this stellar collection of Liszt performances. It’s particularly wonderful to have a previously unissued and exceptionally vivid radio recording of Die Ideale under Kubelík.
Erik Levi