This recording vivified highly expressive, almost 'voluptueux', Liszt's -1. Swiss Travel '(1835). So profound was Liszt's rare, but now: violence, gentle, powerful, melancholic, exuberant, lively, loving, affectionate, happy, deeply sad, doubtful, torn, spiritualized, questioning, searching, floating ... a truly powerful sound picture of young Liszt!
Oliver Schnyder's Liszt is audibly different:
Années de pèlerinages
01 Chapelle de Guillaume Tell 6:16
02. Au lac de Wallstadt 02:52
03. Pastorale 01:30
04. Au bord d'une source 03:43
05. Orage 04:25
06. Valée d'Obermann 13:37
07. Eglogue 02:55
08. Le mal du pays 05:56
09. Les cloches de Genève: Nocturne 06:00
Understanding
10th St François d'Assise: La prédication aux oiseaux 10:26
11th St François de Paule Marchant Major lets flos 08:28
(Bonus CD)
Malediction
01. Malédiction for Piano and String Orchestra, S. 121 14:14
Almost unbelievable how Oliver Schnyder in Liszt's 'Années de Pèlerinage', in the 'Légendes' and in the highly dramatic work for piano and strings 'Malédiction' (here with strings of the Tonhalle Orchestra, Zurich) is immersed. Rarely someone has so identifying opened to interpret the feelings of 'music between two lives' (Album Quote) of what was then just 24 years of Liszt at the piano. Liszt lived.
By the way, in quite extraordinary, 64-page 'Booklet'; there is to read what Oliver Schnyder (in summer 2011) itself very aptly analyzed and written down; alone 'The Switzerland-trip by Franz Liszt and Marie d'Agoult in 1835' is on 25 pages is illustrated with numerous meticulous image documents. Typical: No cover photo of Oliver Schnyder on the album, 'Star-cult' is the likeable Swiss eh not, for it is only the music in the foreground. Eben 'pure passion ...'
