Questo del poema sinfonico Totentanz è un Franz Liztz d'un tenebroso titanismo romantico pieno di potenti suggestioni, anche le piu lente e rarefatte, che elevano al trascendente avendo prima attinto alla parte più profonda e inquieta, tormentata dell'anima umana. L'orchestrazione dell'opera in tal senso è davvero magistrale. Siamo di fronte all'opera di un vero genio. Ottima anche l'interpretazione del direttore e dell'orchestra.
Liszt's piano music is very orchestral. It's just nonsense that he was 'superficial' or 'shallow', because once you imagine that music at an orchestral level, his true genius is revealed.
Yeah. This is probably the godliest musical discovery I've made in AT LEAST the past 2 weeks. Addicted to the first 3 minutes. So damn evil and powerful. Liszt is now someone I HAVE to start listening to excessively. I strive to be able to orchestrate near this level someday.
I don't know how many times I've watched this one. Still as fresh and enjoyable as ever. I have never heard an orchestra wholly devote their collective soul into a performance. I have never heard an orchestra playing so passionately before. As for Liszt himself, he was an incredible genius for making a piece out of just one main theme, and making it very difficult for a casual listener to figure it out.
I've been watching Errol Flynn's 1st American film, "Captain Blood" (1935). Music composed and/or arranged by Erich Korngold. Korngold was given only 3 weeks to compose the score, so he filled in from Liszt's symphonic poems, mainly this one. :)
This one, along with "Preludes" and " Hunnenschlacht", is my favorite Liszt' s tone poem. But...why that quick and running tempo in " Finale"? It gets away all the glory and heroic mood of that wonderful conclusion!
I agree, Liszt was the pioneer, Mahler, Sibelius, Shostakovich, Prokofiev all followed and built upon Liszt's foundation. But seriously, what can rival the Dante Symphony, Prometheus or Totentanz, especially knowing when they were composed.
@@richdisilvio4591 this is very true... Liszt's musical intensity has much to do with Beethoven's innovations, but Liszt brought it to the next level with unequalled genius (especially concerning the harmonies and rythmic energy)
@@sbareg The sad part is, not many in so-called "high places" give Liszt the credit he deserves. They still salivate over Bach, Mozart & Beethoven. But while Mozart and Beethoven built upon Haydn, Liszt broke that mold and opened up new territories of form (Symphonic poem) and tonality, whereby inventing impressionism and atonal music decades before Debussy & Schoenberg were falsely given credit for starting those genres, while his aggressive ferocity gave Wagner and then Mahler, Tchaikovsky, Shostakovich, Prokofiev and others the means to create their dynamic masterpieces. No other composer in history was as multifaceted and inventive as Liszt, even though his heirs created, in many cases, more polished gems which unfairly took the limelight away from him. I invite you to view LISZT: Enigmatic Genius -> ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-D0PgMk8Ngd8.html
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mazeppa_%28symphonic_poem%29 As to the commission, I do not think Liszt was taking commisions, at least at this stage of his career.
