Michael Roll plays Liszt and Beethoven
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Composer or Director: Franz Liszt, Ludwig van Beethoven
Genre:
Instrumental
Label: Heritage
Magazine Review Date: 04/2019
Media Format: CD or Download
Media Runtime: 0
Mastering:
DDD
Catalogue Number: HTGCD184
Tracks:
Composition | Artist Credit |
---|---|
Sonata for Piano |
Franz Liszt, Composer
Franz Liszt, Composer Michael Roll, Piano |
Sonata for Piano No. 23, 'Appassionata' |
Ludwig van Beethoven, Composer
Ludwig van Beethoven, Composer Michael Roll, Piano |
Author: Michelle Assay
Roll is evidently a musical poet, and he has a sure sense of lyricism and musical drama. But these qualities are not enough to save the disc. In the Liszt there is some delightful jeu perlé rippling in the pianissimo passagework; but the overall drama is too fragmented to be convincing and Roll’s fortissimo has a persistent thudding quality. Perhaps the recording conditions did him no favours. In the Beethoven, despite an undeniable sense of excitement and some perceptive voicings, there are simply too many approximations and mis hits. Particularly in the finale, exhilaration is displaced by struggle, and the ovation at the end brings more a sense of relief than of satisfaction, as if for a long-distance runner who has just completed the course against all the odds.
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