Michael Hal sz - Overtures - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

The symphonic poems of the Hungarian composer Franz Liszt are a series of 13 orchestral works, numbered S.95-107. The first 12 were composed between 1848 and 1858 (though some use material conceived earlier); the last, Von der Wiege bis zum Grabe (From the Cradle to the Grave), followed in 1882. These works helped establish the genre of orchestral program music-compositions written to illustrate an extra-musical plan derived from a play, poem, painting or work of nature. They inspired the symphonic poems of Bedrich Smetana, Antonín Dvorák, Richard Strauss and others. Album Tracks 1. The Cradle 2. The Struggle for Existence 3. To the Grave 4. Orpheus, S98 5. The Ideals, S106 (Symphonic Poem After Schiller) 6. Hamlet, S104

In his 13 symphonic poems, inspired by the visual or literary arts, Liszt broke away from the standard four-movement symphony to create a one-movement composition of frequently contrasting moods, unified through thematic transformations. Album Tracks 1. Symphonic Poem No.7 Festklange, S101 2. Symphonic Poem No.1 Ce'qu'on Entend Sur la Montagne (What Is Heard on the Mountain), S95 3. Symphonic Poem No.11 Hunnenschlacht (Battle of the Huns), S105

In his 13 symphonic poems, inspired by the visual or literary arts, Liszt broke away from the standard four-movement-symphony, to create a one-movement composition of frequently contrasting moods unified through thematic transformations. Album Tracks 1. Symphonic Poem No. 9 Hungria, S103 2. Symphonic Poem No. 8 Heroide Funebre (Heldenklage), S102 3. Symphonic Poem No. 2 Le Triomphe Funebre Du Tasse, S112/3