Liszt: Dante Symphony, Tasso, Künstlerfestzug & Vor hundert Jahren (Bonus Track Edition) Staatskapelle Weimar & Kirill Karabits

• Franz Liszt (1811 - 1886):
• 1 Künstlerfestzug zur Schillerfeier, S. 114 / LW.G20 / IFL 216 10:58
• Tasso:
• 2 Tasso: Lamento e Trionfo, S. 96 / LW.G2 / IFL 370 (Symphonic Poem No. 2) 21:25
• 'Dante Symphony' - A Symphony to Dante's Divina Commedia, S. 109 / LW.G14 / IFL 72:
• 3 Dante Symphony' - A Symphony to Dante's Divina Commedia, S. 109 / LW.G14 / IFL 72: I. Inferno 21:03
• 4 Dante Symphony' - A Symphony to Dante's Divina Commedia, S. 109 / LW.G14 / IFL 72: II. Purgatorio 18:03
• 5 Dante Symphony' - A Symphony to Dante's Divina Commedia, S. 109 / LW.G14 / IFL 72: III. Magnificat 07:31
• Vor hundert Jahren, S. 347 / P2:
• 6 Vor hundert Jahren, S. 347 / P2: I. Allegro appassionato 01:16
• 7 Vor hundert Jahren, S. 347 / P2: II. "Wohin entflieh' ich?" (Germania) 00:46
• 8 Vor hundert Jahren, S. 347 / P2: III. Andante - "Oh heil'ge Eintracht" (Germania) 02:37
• 9 Vor hundert Jahren, S. 347 / P2: IV. "Glück auf, Germania!" (Poesie - Germania) 03:36
• 10 Vor hundert Jahren, S. 347 / P2: V. Andante un poco mosso (Parzenlied) - "Vielleicht ist's eines großen Menschen Nähe..." [Poesie, Germania, Clotho, Lachesis, Atropos] 04:54
• 11 Vor hundert Jahren, S. 347 / P2: VI. "Vernahmst du sie?" (Poesie - Germania) 02:47
• 12 Vor hundert Jahren, S. 347 / P2: VII. Freude schöner Götterfunken von Beethoven - "Sprich weiter" (Germania - Poesie) 03:59
• 13 Vor hundert Jahren, S. 347 / P2: VIII. Allegro (Ein freies Leben führen wir) - "Erfolg begrüßt ihn" [Germania - Poesie] 02:56
• 14 Vor hundert Jahren, S. 347 / P2: IX. Maestoso - "Gedankenvoll, gereift zum Meister, der er werden soll..." (Poesie) 01:47
• 15 Vor hundert Jahren, S. 347 / P2: X. Allegro. Reiterlied 'Wohlauf Kameraden, aufs Pferd' aus Friedrich Schillers Wallenstein 00:36
• 16 Vor hundert Jahren, S. 347 / P2: XI. "Du schweigst?" (Germania - Poesie) 03:18
• 17 Vor hundert Jahren, S. 347 / P2: XII. Sehr langsam - "Wie jene Jungfrau..." (Poesie) 02:21
• 18 Vor hundert Jahren, S. 347 / P2: XIII. "Sein letztes Lied" (Germania - Poesie) 02:00
• 19 Vor hundert Jahren, S. 347 / P2: XIV. "Blick hin!" (Poesie - Germania) 02:07
• 20 Vor hundert Jahren, S. 347 / P2: XV. Das ganze Deutschland soll es sein - "Du aber Zukunft" (Poesie) - Schluss. So soll es Sein 02:45
• Total Runtime 01:56:45

Info for Liszt: Dante Symphony, Tasso, Künstlerfestzug & Vor hundert Jahren (Bonus Track Edition)

Continuing a much-acclaimed series of recordings: in the wake of Sardanapalo, Kirill Karabits and the Staatskapelle Weimar are devoting themselves for the first time to major works by Weimar’s Kapellmeister-composer, Franz Liszt, with his Dante and Tasso. His Künstlerfestzug is a world-premiere recording.

Deep emotions and sombre laments, the torments of Hell and the radiance of Paradise, and the sounds of celebration: the Staatskapelle Weimar and Kirill Karabits are continuing their partnership on the audite label with Franz Liszt's symphonic poem Tasso. Lamento e Trionfo, his Symphony to Dante's 'Divina Commedia' and - a world-premiere recording on CD - his Künstlerfestzug zur Schillerfeier. Their three previous releases have all been acclaimed by the press. The works that Liszt wrote for the Weimar Hofkapelle in the 1850s are the very embodiment of a Romantic ideal, combining literature, philosophy and the visual arts to create emotionally intense music that is turned both towards tradition and to the future.

Nadja Robiné
Sebastian Kowski
Staatskapelle Weimar
Knabenchor der Jenaer Philharmonie
Damen des Opernchores des Deutschen Nationaltheaters Weimar
Kirill Karabits, conductor

Kirill Karabits
a native of Ukraine, studied conducting and composition at the Lysenko Music School in Kiev, then at the National Music Academy of Ukraine "Peter Tchaikovsky" and at the Vienna Academy of Music. He was principal guest conductor of the Orchestre Philharmonique de Strasbourg and junior conductor of the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France and the Budapest Festival Orchestra. In concert, Kirill Karabits has worked with orchestras such as the Cleveland, Philadelphia and San Francisco Symphony Orchestras, the Rotterdam Philharmonic, the Yomiuri Nippon Symphony Orchestra, the Orchestra Filarmonica del Teatro La Fenice and the BBC Symphony Orchestra. In 2016, he conducted the Russian National Orchestra on a tour of the USA and in two concerts at the Edinburgh International Festival. This summer he made his debut at the Ravinia Festival with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. In the opera field, guest engagements include Glyndebourne Festival Opera, English National Opera, Bolshoi Theatre, Wagner Geneva Festival and Hamburg State Opera. In 2015, a new production of Khovantchina was staged under his direction at Theater Basel. He is the artistic director of the I, CULTURE Orchestra, an orchestra of young musicians from Poland and other Eastern European countries. At the same time, the Ukrainian-born conductor has been principal conductor of the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra since 2008; in recognition of his work in the UK, he was named Conductor of the Year by the Royal Philharmonic Society in 2013. From 2016/17 Kirill Karabits is General Music Director and Chief Conductor of the German National Theatre and the Staatskapelle Weimar. This season, in addition to symphony concerts, he will conduct Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg in Weimar and Boris Godunow at the Deutsche Oper Berlin. At the Stuttgart Opera, Karabits will take over the musical direction of the new production of Death in Venice.

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