Liszt: Three Funeral Odes etc – review

Glasgow Singers/BBCSSO/Volkov(Hyperion)Ilan Volkov's Liszt album with the BBC Scottish Symphony focuses on the composer's major confrontations with mortality. With the exception of the late, valedictory From the Cradle to the Grave (1881), the works here all date from the late 1850s to mid-1860s – traumatic years that saw the end of Liszt's hopes of marrying his mistress, Carolyne von Sayn-Wittgenstein, and the deaths of both his son Daniel in 1859 and his elder daughter Blandine in 1862. Th...

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