Nyiregyházi's last recording: Liszt: Aux cyprès de la Villa d’Este: Thrénodie (II) (Official) скачать в хорошем качестве

Nyiregyházi's last recording: Liszt: Aux cyprès de la Villa d’Este: Thrénodie (II) (Official)

Here is one of Nyiregyházi's last performances, recorded privately at his friend's home in 1984, from Sonetto Classics' "Nyiregyházi Live Vol. 2: Forest Hill Clubhouse 1973 / Last recordings 1984" (SONCLA005). This album is available from: https://sonettoclassics.com/Official_... One stormy day in 1984, while visiting Ricardo Hernandez in San Francisco, he felt moved to play two pieces by Liszt, which he allowed Hernandez to record on a cassette. One piece was the second version of “Aux cyprès de la Villa d’Este,” the recording of which begins at bar 28, presumably because the tape recorder was started only then. The other piece was the “Song of the Shepherds at the Manger,” an orchestral number from the oratorio Christus. Whether Nyiregyházi’s source for the latter was the full score or Liszt’s vocal score (or both) is unknown, and perhaps moot: He took enough liberties with the music to deserve credit as the arranger. Both performances are deeply meditative, improvisatory, as though Nyiregyházi were not so much playing as musing over the music. (Performances of “Aux cyprès” typically run eight to eleven minutes, of the shepherds’ song twelve to fifteen; Nyiregyházi’s timings are 15: 52 and 22: 59, even though in the latter piece he makes some cuts.) In these readings, a rich, orchestral tone and the most ardent feeling—if not much technique—are still evident. They were Nyiregyházi’s last preserved performances, and it was perhaps fitting that his strange pianistic career should close, at age eighty-one, with those ethereal A-major chord s at the end of the shepherds’ song, played on an out-of-tune piano for an audience of one. (CD notes by Kevin Bazzana, SONCLA005)