SCHERCHEN CONDUCTS LISZT

WS 121.220

LISZT: Orchestral Works (Les préludes – Mazeppa – Battle of the Huns – Mephisto Waltz No. 1 – Hungarian Rhapsodies Nos 1/6)

Vienna State Opera Orchestra, 1957–1959

HERMANN SCHERCHEN

PRODUCT DESCRIPTION

Recorded between 1957 and 1959 with Westminster's traditional stereo excellence, these famous Liszt pieces have few alternatives on the market. The group of Hungarian Rhapsodies And The Symphonic Poems , which these two CDs present, exhaust a large part of Liszt's symphonic works. The interpreter, Hermann Scherchen, a conductor of great prominence, is somehow unmatched in those passages that require great virtuosity and expressiveness.