Liszt: 15 Songs Timothy Fallon & Ammiel Bushakevitz

• Franz Liszt (1811-1886): 3 Sonetti del Petrarca, S. 270 No. 1:
• 1No. 1, Pace non trovo07:12
• 2No. 2, Benedetto sia 'l giorno06:08
• 3No. 3, I' vidi in terra angelici05:57
• Angiolin dal biondo crin, S. 269 No. 2:
• 4Angiolin dal biondo crin, S. 269 No. 205:38
• Comment disaient-ils, S. 276 No. 2:
• 5Comment disaient-ils, S. 276 No. 201:56
• Oh! Quand je dors, S. 282 No. 2:
• 6Oh! Quand je dors, S. 282 No. 205:15
• Enfant, si j'étais roi, S. 283 No. 2:
• 7Enfant, si j'étais roi, S. 283 No. 202:56
• S'il est un charmant gazon, S. 284 No. 2:
• 8S'il est un charmant gazon, S. 284 No. 202:27
• Go Not, Happy Day, S. 335:
• 9Go Not, Happy Day, S. 33503:06
• Kling leise, mein Lied, S. 301 No. 2:
• 10Kling leise, mein Lied, S. 301 No. 205:06
• Jugendglück, S. 323:
• 11Jugendglück, S. 32301:48
• 3 Lieder aus Schillers William Tell, S. 292 No. 1:
• 12I. Der Fischerknabe04:34
• 13II. Der Hirt05:06
• 14III. Der Alpenjäger03:18
• Ihr Glocken von Marling, S. 328:
• 15Ihr Glocken von Marling, S. 32803:23
• Total Runtime01:03:50

Info for Liszt: 15 Songs

Timothy Fallon and Ammiel Bushakevitz appear regularly together in recital, and in 2013 won first prize in the Wigmore Hall/Kohn Foundation International Song Competition. For their début disc as a duo they have devised an all-Liszt programme which spans some 40 years of the composer's career, taking in settings of poems in four different languages. Most of Liszt's 70 or so songs were composed during the 1840s, but Liszt return-ed to many of them over the course of his life, sometimes revising them more than once and in some cases arranging them for solo piano. Certain of these arrangements, such as the three settings of sonnets by Petrarch which open the present disc, have become better known than the originals. Another Italian setting is the tenderly lyrical Angiolin da biondo crin, written for Liszt's daughter Blandine. Composed in 1839 it is the composer's first song, but Fallon and Bushakevitz have chosen to perform the revised version made some 10 years later.

Although French was not Liszt’s mother tongue, it became his preferred language and he composed a number of songs to French texts – many of them by Victor Hugo, his friend and idol. Another author admired by Liszt was Schiller, whose Wilhelm Tell inspired revolutionaries during the tumultuous 1840s. Among some of the later songs are Jugendglück, a rhapsodic tour-de-force exemplary of Liszt’s virtuosic style, and Go not, happy day from 1879, the only English setting among his songs. The disc closes with another late song, Ihr Glocken von Marling, to a poem by Emil Kuh which inspired Liszt to create an intensely evocative soundscape.

Timothy Fallon, tenor
Ammiel Bushakevitz, piano

Timothy Fallon
is an American tenor who has been hailed by the New York Times as ‘possessing an elegant sense of phrasing and luminous tone with his sure-handed control of timbre, from velvety pianissimos to bright confident high notes’. He devotes time to both operatic and concert stages around the world, where he has collaborated with internationally esteemed orchestras, musicians and conductors. He is the recipient of a 2021 Grammy Award as well as being the 2013 first prize winner of the Wigmore Hall/Kohn Foundation International Song Competition with pianist Ammiel Bushakevitz. Beginning in the 2022–23 season, he is the house lyric tenor at the Vienna Volksoper in Austria. Mentored among others by the mezzo-soprano Marilyn Horne, Timothy Fallon is a graduate of the Westminster Choir College (Princeton, New Jersey) and the Juilliard School, New York.

Ammiel Bushakevitz
Born in Jerusalem and raised in South Africa, Ammiel Bushakevitz specializes as a Lieder pianist and is a laureate of numerous international art song competitions. He has appeared at festivals including Salzburg, Bayreuth, Lucerne, Shanghai and Aix-en-Provence and at the Leeds International Piano Series. Bushakevitz is one of the last private students of the late Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau and is a graduate of the University of Music and Theatre ‘Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy’ in Leipzig and the Conservatoire de Paris. His mentors included Phillip Moll, Boris Berman and Alfred Brendel. Ammiel Bushakevitz is a member of the Société des Arts Sciences et Lettres of Paris, an honorary member of the International Richard Wagner Society and an Edison Fellow of the British Library, London. He is artistic director of the Association Internationale Les Voix d’Orphée in Paris.

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