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...LISZT: CONCERTOS NOS. 1 AND 2; TOTENTANZ (DG). Pianistic fireworks from Poland's Krystian Zimerman, abetted by Seiji Ozawa and the Boston Symphony. Tops: the underrated Totentanz (Dance of Death), a performance sure to rattle a few skeletons...
LISZT: CONCERTOS NOS. 1 AND 2; TOTENTANZ (DG). Pianistic fireworks from Poland's Krystian Zimerman, abetted by Seiji Ozawa and the Boston Symphony. Tops: the underrated Totentanz (Dance of Death), a performance sure to rattle a few skeletons...
...Faust legend, the romantics found all the excesses they craved: sex, violence, power, the diabolical, damnation and salvation. And in Franz Liszt, who had more than a whiff of the necromancer about him, the Faust story found an ideal musical interpreter. In works such as Malediction and Totentanz for piano and orchestra, the four Mephisto Waltzes for solo piano and, most ambitious of all, the Faust Symphony, the great piano virtuoso gave free rein to his bursting creativity, conjuring up demonic worlds through his pianistic and compositional sorcery...
...acutely because, like wounded animals, they cannot articulate it. Think of Picasso's Guernica unfolding in slow motion and you have the image of these women dying. The evening ends with a jolly blare of music. The Black Angel and the Grey Lady wheel to the music-a Totentanz, the dance of death...
...Totentanz, a trick clause in a will and the brightness of an over-perceptive pansy bring about the downfall of the socially ambitious wife of a university professor. In a winsome domestic scene from A Visit in Bad Taste, a man newly released from prison, where he has done time for a sexual offense against a child, is encouraged by his sister to commit suicide. In Raspberry Jam, a little boy goes to tea with two old ladies, both of them drunks and one a nymphomaniac; they get him tipsy, and after telling him about an Italian lover she once...
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