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The 12 Transcendental Etudes are the ultimate test of quasi-orchestral virtuosity and of the capacity to achieve nobility and true eloquence. Jandó perhaps lacks diabolic frisson in the more ferocious numbers but his performances, overall, aren't disfigured by willful, sensational attributes or hysteria. No-1 is an impressive, dramatically pointed, curtain-raiser, and he can hell-raise with assurance in 'Mazeppa'. His 'Feux follets' hardly sparks with the brilliance of, say, some of the full-blooded accounts of certain Russian artists, but even when it hardly modulates from study to tone-poem it's still more than capable (higher praise than you might think where such intricacy is concerned). He flashes an impressive rapier at the start of 'Eroica' and there's plenty of swagger and facility in the so-called 'Appassionata' étude. 'Chasse-neige', too, proceeds with a fine sense of it's menacing start to a howling, elemental uproar before returning to distant thunder. Jandó is less assured in introspection, yet it has to be said that all-encompassing versions of the Transcendental Etudes are hard to come by. Jandó is impressively recorded. Album Tracks 1. Etudes D' Execution Transcendante, S139-R2B I. Preludio in C Major Presto 2. Etudes D' Execution Transcendante, S139-R2B II. Etude in a Minor Molto Vivace 3. Etudes D' Execution Transcendante, S139-R2B III. Paysage (Landscape), in F Major Poco Adagio 4. Etudes D' Execution Transcendante, S139-R2B IV. Mazeppa in D minor Allegro 5. Etudes D' Execution Transcendante, S139-R2B V. Feux Follets (Will O' the Wisps) in B Flat Major Allegretto 6. Etudes D' Execution Transcendante, S139-R2B VI. Vision in G minor Lento 7. Etudes D' Execution Transcendante, S139-R2B VII. Eroica in E Flat Major Allegro 8. Etudes D' Execution Transcendante, S139-R2B VIII. Wilde Jagd (Wild Hunt), in C minor Presto Fu
