Release

“Life, Love & Afterlife” – A Liszt recital

Dejan Lazić’s fantastic Liszt recital has been released in April 2017

“A fascinating portrait of Liszt as composer, arranger and restless traveller. A must for all lovers of great piano playing, and who wish to explore the wonders of Liszt’s music.” (Onyx Classics, 2017)

Dejan Lazić; on this, his first album for ONYX, pays tribute to a composer and his legacy as a piano virtuoso, organist, improviser, arranger, conductor, teacher, author, philanthropist and traveller.

Liszt lived life to the full, and this recital captures that love of life, his genius as a pianist and composer, a traveller with a restless and curious mind. Liszt’s respect for the music of other composers is to be found in his arrangements for piano of orchestral, operatic and other vocal works. From Wagner’s operas to Schubert Lieder via Beethoven Symphonies, his deep love for the music is apparent and such arrangements gave this music a wider audience in both the salons and domestic settings that lives on today.

“Embarking on a recording project like this obviously required a substantial amount of preparation time. But once the date has come it was of a tremendous importance to capture and to honour the spontaneity of Liszt’s versatile, eclectic, and revolutionary genius”, writes Dejan in his introduction to the recital, captured at a live performance at Hohenhems, and one further day in studio conditions.

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Next Concerts

Oct 15, 2023 Rome (IT)
Sala Santa Cecilia
Liszt 2 in Rome — “Bridging Europe” Festival
Oct 20, 2023 Raiding (AT)
Lisztzentrum Raiding
Mozart at the Liszt Festival
Nov 11, 2023 Lucerne (CH)
KKL Lucerne
The Sound of George Gershwin — Celebrating 125th Anniversary
Nov 15, 2023 Bergen (NO)
Grieghallen
Mozartfest in Bergen
Nov 16, 2023 Bergen (NO)
Grieghallen
Mozartfest in Bergen

Previous Concerts

Rachmaninov: Moment Musicaux op. 16, No. 1: Andantino (excerpt)