A Grail, a Gondola and a Sonnet

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Live from Wigmore Hall, French pianist Bertrand Chamayou performs Beethoven in improvisatory mood, graveside Wolfgang Rihm and Liszt in search of the Holy Grail and in Venice.

French pianist Bertrand Chamayou performs Beethoven, Rihm and Liszt, opening with one of Liszt's many operatic transcriptions: the March to the Holy Grail from Wagner's Parsifal. In the Fantasia in G minor Beethoven flexes his improvisatory muscles to impressive effect, while Wolfgang Rihm's Tombeau evokes a bleak and sometimes terrifying graveyard scene.

Venice dominates the second half of this recital, with Liszt evoking an ominous journey on a lugubrious gondola, reflecting on the passionate love poetry of Petrarch and showing us the vivid sights and scenes of Venice and Naples.

Live from Wigmore Hall, presented by Martin Handley

Liszt: Feierlicher Marsch zum heiligen Gral from Parsifal S450 (transcription from Richard Wagner)
Beethoven: Fantasia in G minor Op 77
Rihm: Klavierstück No 5 ('Tombeau')

Interval

Liszt: La lugubre gondola S200
Liszt: Années de pèlerinage, deuxième année, Italie S161 - Sonetto del Petrarca No 123
Liszt: Venezia e Napoli S162

Bertrand Chamayou (piano)

Photo © Marco Borggreve

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Franz Liszt

Feierlicher Marsch zum heiligen Gral from Parsifal S450
Performer: Bertrand Chamayou.
Ludwig van Beethoven

Fantasia in G minor Op. 77
Performer: Bertrand Chamayou.
Wolfgang Rihm

Klavierstück No. 5 ('Tombeau')
Performer: Bertrand Chamayou.
Giovanni Gabrieli

In ecclesiis a 14
Ensemble: Gabrieli Consort & Players. Conductor: Paul McCreesh.
- ARCHIV.
Giovanni Gabrieli

Sonata No 20 a 22
Ensemble: Gabrieli Consort & Players. Conductor: Paul McCreesh.
- ARCHIV.
Giovanni Gabrieli

Magnificat a 33
Ensemble: Gabrieli Consort & Players. Conductor: Paul McCreesh.
- ARCHIV.
Franz Liszt

La lugubre gondola S200
Performer: Bertrand Chamayou.
Franz Liszt

"Années de pèlerinage, deuxième année, Italie S161
Performer: Bertrand Chamayou.
Franz Liszt

Venezia e Napoli S162
Performer: Bertrand Chamayou.
Maurice Ravel

Pavane pour une infante défunte
Performer: Bertrand Chamayou.
Camille Saint‐Saëns

Mazurka No. 3 in B Minor, Op. 66
Performer: Bertrand Chamayou.
Arnold Schoenberg

String Quartet No 2 Op 10
Singer: Elsa Dreisig. Ensemble: Quatuor Arod.
- ERATO.
Ottorino Respighi

L' Adorazione dei Magi (Trittico Botticelliano)
Orchestra: Bournemouth Sinfonietta. Conductor: Tamás Vásáry.
- CHANDOS.