Mariam Batsashvili plays Liszt: Lieder aus Franz Schuberts Schwanengesang, S. 560: No. 7 Ständchen

Discover Mariam Batsashvili s Romantic Piano Masters album here: Hear Mariam s insights on this piece and her interpretation in this closer look: The program strongly features Liszt, a composer of special importance to her: it features his pianistic vision of music from operas (Wagners Tristan und Isolde and Gounods Faust), of songs by Schubert, and of his own haunting song Die Lorelei, as well as his aptly named Valse de bravoure. Liszts contemporary and virtuoso rival, Sigismund Thalberg, is represented with another operainspired work, the Grand Caprice on themes from Bellinis La Sonnambula. A celebrated pianist of a later generation, the Britishborn Harold Bauer, supplies a transcription of a work conceived for organ, César Francks Prélude, Fugue et Variation Op. 18, and the album is rounded out with two further waltzes, by Chopin and Schubert. Video: Paul MullerHahl , ClassicalMusic, Liszt, Schubert