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EDITH FARNADI playing FRANZ LISZT – CD


Edith Farnadi plays Franz Liszt on CD together with London Philharmonic Orchestra and Vienna State Opera Orchestra on CD.

FRANZ LISZT PAR EDITH FARNADI

CD review by Fabio Bardelli.

Program:

– Fantaisie hongroise

– Danse macabre

(London Philharmonic Orchestra, 3.III.1956)

– Piano Concerto No
. 1 in E flat major

– Piano Concerto No. 2 in A major

(Vienna State Opera Orchestra, 15.III.1959)

 

Conductor: Sir Adrian Boult

1 CD. TAHRA. Tah 723

FLORENCE:  This is a very interesting CD, dedicated to the Hungarian pianist Edith Farnadi (1921 – 1973), an artist so beloved in her fatherland as well as less known in the rest of Europe. An enfant prodige, she focused her career especially in EasternEurope, and – as an Hungarian – she breathed the musical athmosphere of her own land, so tied to Franz Liszt who, when Farnadi was born, had been dead for only thirty years.

The program of this CD is an “all-Liszt”, and the although the recordings dates more than fifty years ago, the sound quality is excellent, so the recording engineers in Tahra are to be praised. We find here four works for piano and orchestra among the most important in the whole catalogue of the great Hungarian composer

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The most famous among this compositions is undoubtedly the Concert No.1 thanks not only to its own artistic value, but also to the fiery piano writing. Liszt made the most of his instrument that it becomes almost a second orchestra, and the dialogue with the “real” ensemble is so tight, overwhelming and almost acrobatic, that even the less attentive listener is going  to bewitched by it.

Edith Farnadi is completely at her ease in the score, and she enhances both the technical-improvisionational values than the poetic, lyrical and dreamy ones. Very seldom I’ve heard the rapsodic pace of some moments of Concert No.1 played so convincely. The first two tracks of this CD are really wonderful: they are the Fantaisie hongroise and the world famous Danse macabre, where the close dialogue between the soloist and a skilled conductor such as Sir Adrian Boult reaches outstanding heights
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The other compositions in this CD are on the same high artistic level, and both the Piano Concerts are played admirably and with great stylistic respect.

That of Farnadi is a reassuring classical tradition, very likely coming from her Homeland and from Hungarian – therefore close to Liszt‘s spirit – teachers. Maybe she’s a pianist to rediscover, but for sure it’s always a pleasure to listen to such an artist, and for the new generation, this CD is a wonderful surprise
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Fabio Bardelli

translation from italian to english Bruno Tredicine

 

 

 

 

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