Mariam Batsashvili plays Liszt: Lieder aus Franz Schubert’s Schwanengesang, S. 560: No. 7 Ständchen

Discover Mariam Batsashvili’s Romantic Piano Masters album here: Hear Mariam’s insights on this piece and her interpretation in this closer look: The program strongly features Liszt, a composer of special importance to her: it features his pianistic vision of music from operas (Wagner’s Tristan und Isolde and Gounod’s Faust), of songs by Schubert, and of his own haunting song Die Lorelei, as well as his aptly named Valse de bravoure. Liszt’s contemporary and virtuoso rival, Sigismund Thalberg, is represented with another opera-inspired work, the ‘Grand Caprice’ on themes from Bellini’s La Sonnambula. A celebrated pianist of a later generation, the British-born Harold Bauer, supplies a transcription of a work conceived for organ, César Franck’s Prélude, Fugue et Variation Op. 18, and the album is rounded out with two further waltzes, by Chopin and Schubert. Video: Paul Muller-Hahl #ClassicalMusic #Liszt #Schubert