Franz Liszt (1811-1886)
What I find difficult to explain is the inexpressible arising of religious feeling in me ... My life is a prayer, a perpetual adoration.' The programmes this week explore Liszt's religious quest.
Fantasia quasi sonata: Apres une Lecture du Dante (Deuxieme annee de pèlerinage: Italie)
9.20* Benediction de Dieu dans la solitude (Harmon. ies poétiques et religieuses) ALFRED BRENDEL (pianO)
9.37* Paraphrase on the Dies Irae:
Totentanz ALFRED BRENDEL (piano) LONDON PHILHARMONIC
ORCHESTRA, conducted by BERNARD HAITINK gramophone records