Perspectives 7 Andreas Haefliger

• Alban Berg (1885-1935):
• 1 Piano Sonata, Op. 1 14:33
• Franz Liszt (1811-1886): 2 Légendes, S. 175:
• 2 No. 1, St. François d'Assise - La prédication aux oiseaux 10:39
• Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827): Piano Sonata No. 28 in A Major, Op. 101:
• 3 I. Etwas lebhaft und mit der innigsten Empfindung 04:47
• 4 II. Lebhaft. Marschmäẞig 06:12
• 5 III. Langsam und sehnsuchtsvoll 03:34
• 6 IV. Geschwind, doch nicht zu sehr, und mit Entschlossenheit 07:52
• Modest Mussorgsky (1839-1881): Pictures at an Exhibition:
• 7 Promenade I 01:33
• 8 I. Gnomus 03:06
• 9 Promenade II 01:05
• 10 II. Old Castle 04:40
• 11 Promenade III 00:38
• 12 III. Tuileries 01:00
• 13 IV. Bydło 03:04
• 14 Promenade IV 01:03
• 15 V. Ballet of the Chickens in Their Shells 00:59
• 16 VI. Samuel Goldenberg & Schmuÿle 02:34
• 17 Promenade V 01:40
• 18 VII. The Marketplace at Limoges 01:22
• 19 VIIIa. Catacombæ (Sepulcrum Romanum) 02:37
• 20 VIIIb. Con mortuis in lingua mortua 02:49
• 21 IX. The Hut on Fowl's Legs (Baba-Yagá) 03:25
• 22 X. The Great Gate at Kiev 06:15
• Total Runtime 01:25:27

Info for Perspectives 7

Since 2004, Andreas Haefliger has been devising a series of recital programmes named Perspectives, presenting them in concert and on disc. Each programme focusses on one or two Beethoven sonatas, juxtaposed with works by other composers (ranging from Mozart to Berio) which in some way or other interact with Beethoven’s music, and with each other. The seventh instalment in the series was premièred at the Edinburgh Festival in 2017, and was described by one reviewer as ‘Inspiringly commanding, thoughtful, lucid and sheerly beautiful’ (The Herald, Glasgow).

Perspectives 7 opens with Alban Berg’s Piano Sonata, Op. 1, a highly concentrated work in which most of the music can be traced back to the two opening gestures. This is followed by Liszt’s impressionistic Légende No. 1 ‘St. Francis of Assisi: The Sermon to the Birds’, in which we seem to hear a flock of birds chirp warble and sing. At the core of the programme is Beethoven’s Op. 101 Sonata – a work which in Haefliger’s opinion points more clearly towards Schumann than any other of the composer’s sonatas. But the grand finale of this amply-filled disc (86 minutes!) is nevertheless a highly colourful and expressive performance of Mussorgsky’s Pictures from an Exhibition, recorded – as is the entire disc – in the exceptional acoustics of the Mozartsaal of the Vienna Konzerthaus.

Andreas Haefliger, piano

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