Liszt Chorale: Crux Ave Benedicta

Published on Jul 26, 2018 Kris Lennox

"This is all getting very serious. I feel like I'm at church. Give it another day of this and I'll be feeling guilty for no reason whatsoever. I think I'd better have a lie down and play some Jefferson Airplane in the morning.

Some notes RE the Chorale: Liszt worked on the set at the end of the 1870's, with the plan being to make a collection of piano arrangements of sacred songs, the set written for Cardinal Gustav Hohenlohe-Schillingsfurst - but Liszt only partially completed the set. Still, the pieces are worth a look.

A few here will likely be familiar with the surname Hohenlohe - especially so if you know the poetry of Rilke.

RE this recording: I assume it goes without saying that the score doesn't indicate a filter sweep on the final chord! But it sounds good. At least, to my ear it does. SEM filter very obvious on this patch.

All best
Kris"