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David Malusà in Recital
22nd July 2022 | 7:00 pm
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PERFORMER | |
DAVID MALUSÀ | |
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Programme
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770 – 1827) / Franz Liszt (1811 – 1886)
Symphony No. 5 in C Minor Op. 67 (S 464)
I. Allegro con brio
II. Andante con moto
III. Scherzo: Allegro
IV. Allegro – Presto
Duration
This concert will last approximately 60 minutes, with no interval.
For his performance in Rugby, David Malusà has chosen one of the most technically and musically demanding pieces written in solo piano literature; Liszt’s transcription of Beethoven’s Symphony No. 5 in C Minor. Perhaps the biggest praise for this work came from Vladimir Horowitz when he admitted: ‘I deeply regret never having played Liszt’s arrangements of the Beethoven symphonies in public – these are the greatest works for the piano – tremendous works – every note of the symphonies is in the Liszt works’. Nearly an entire century after their publication in 1865, there have only been a handful of contemporary pianists (our guest artist Professor Leslie Howard is one of them) who have recorded all nine symphonies, with Liszt’s own students largely abstaining from performing or recording them. To use musicologist Alan Walker’s words, Liszt’s transcriptions ‘are arguably the greatest work of transcription ever completed in the history of music’. Having met Beethoven in person and heard performances of the symphonies by many of his contemporaries, Liszt’s perspective and detailed knowledge of these works makes his transcriptions the best Urtext edition we can ever hope for. The Fifth Symphony with its Fate Motif seeped into popular culture unlike any other piece of classical music, making it perhaps one of the most recognizable works around the globe.