Libetta live

[Rach3]

Francesco Libetta live at La Roque, 2002. When in the mood.

The Risler " Till " and the Alkan not to be missed.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NQfolBNJexw

Directed by Bruno Monsaingeon / Naïve

PROGRAMME:

Richard STRAUSS

Ständchen Op. 17 No. 2 arr. Walter Gieseking
Till Eulenspiegel Op. 28 arr. Edouard Risler

Leopold GODOWSKY

Studies after Chopin's Studies
Badinage No. 47
Study in Octaves No. 28
Study for the Left Hand No. 22 (“Revolutionary” )

Claude DEBUSSY

L'Isle Joyeuse

Johann Nepomuk HUMMEL

Rondo in E flat major Op. 11

Franz LISZT

Totentanz S.525

György LIGETI

Etude No. 13 "L'Escalier du Diable"

Camille SAINT-SAËNS

Study in the form of a waltz Op. 52 No. 6

Piotr Ilyich TCHAIKOVSKY

Pas de deux from "The Sleeping Beauty"

Charles-Valentin ALKAN

"20 Years" from the Grand Sonata Op. 33 "The Four Ages"

Léo DELIBES

Pizzicato Polka from "Sylvia"

[Rach3]

Libetta plays Beethoven Op.111, live video, Paris,2012. Very nice :

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lxE83vNZgGw

[maestrob]

This looks interesting, Steve! Will hear the first recital w/Alkan today if all goes as planned. Thanks!

[maestrob]

First recital quite wonderful, thanks! I disagreed with just a couple of bars in the Standchen and L'Isle joyeuse, but the Totentanz was outstanding, as was the Ligeti and everything else in the second half. He's young, so there's not much available commercially here in the USA, but Libetta is a major artist, and I appreciate the introduction. I may buy the DVD just to support him.

[Rach3]

Note the DVD is from 2002.

[Rach3]

Live in Italy, May,2021. A little " rusty" compered to his younger self, but still impressive. I had not heard the posthumous variations for the Schumann played by themselves in a recital, but it works.Once heard a pianist do them all at the very end, after the usual concluding “march” (!) , so the work ended quietly. Atmospheric, operatic Liszt here, perhaps one of the best “Dante” I’ve heard, especially live. Liked what he did with Chopin Op.64,# 2 Waltz, and Op.25,# 12 Etude.The encore I think was his own composition.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Quv6c9jyXos (Starts about 15:00 in )

C.M. von Weber (1786 - 1826)

Invitation à la danse

R. Schumann (1810 - 1856)
Cinque variazioni da "Studi Sinfonici, Op. 13"
su un tema di Ignaz Ferdinand von Fricken

F. Liszt (1810 - 1849)
da Années de pèlérinage. Deuxième Année. Italie, S 161
Après une lecture du Dante (fantasia quasi sonata)

F. Chopin (1810 - 1849)
Trois Valses, Op. 64
Études Op. 25 n. 1, n. 6, n. 12
Ballade Op. 23

W.A. Mozart (1756 - 1791)
Sonata in Fa maggiore, K 332
Allegro, Adagio, Allegro assai