Catalogue # 88697891402

This is truly the ‘Summer of Lang Lang’! The hottest Classical artist on the classical music planet, as described by The New York Times, is back with his second recording for Sony Classical, which is devoted to his very own piano hero - Franz Liszt.

On this album, together with the Vienna Philharmonic and Valery Gergiev, Lang Lang plays Liszt’s Piano Concerto No. 1 as well as a selection of some of the most commercial, famous, virtuosic and beautiful solo pieces by Franz Liszt such as La Campanella, Liebestraum and Hungarian Rhapsody Nr 6, Consolation etc.

His 200th anniversary being this October 22, Franz Liszt is commonly regarded as the first pop star in music history. A touring piano virtuoso himself, Franz Liszt composed some of the most famous and virtuosic pieces ever written for the instrument.

Liszt:
Romance ‘O pourquoi donc’, S169
Grande Étude de Paganini, S. 141 No. 3 ‘La Campanella’
Consolation, S. 172 No. 3 in D flat major
Grand galop chromatique, S219
Liebestraum, S541 No. 3 in A flat major
Hungarian Rhapsody, S244 No. 6 in D flat major
Un Sospiro from 3 Concert Studies, S144 No. 3
Hungarian Rhapsody, S244 No. 15 in A minor ‘Rákóczy Marsch’, Horowitz version
Ave Maria, S558 No. 12 (after Schubert)
Isolde’s Liebestod (after Wagner), S447

Bonus Track
Piano Concerto No. 1 in E flat major, S124

Vienna Philharmonic, Valery Gergiev
Lang Lang (piano)