Liszt: Symphonic Poems: Haselböck, Orchester Wiener Akademie (5 CDs)

This 5-CD set comprises a series of live recordings made by the Orchester Wiener Akademie and its conductor Martin Haselböck of orchestral music by Franz Liszt. They were released to mark the 200th anniversary of the composer's birth. It features all of the Symphonic Poems, the Dante Symphony and the beautiful Évocation à la Chapelle Sixtine. These critically-acclaimed performances from 2011 and 2012 are unique in that the orchestra performs on the original instruments or copies of the original instruments that were used at concerts conducted by the composer himself.

For "The Sound of Weimar" project, Liszt expert Martin Haselböck deployed the orchestra Wiener Akademie in exactly the size adopted for the original performances given by the Weimar Hofkapelle, and for the recordings made use of instruments that had either been played in concerts conducted by Franz Liszt himself or were faithful copies of such instruments. When the early CDs of the series appeared they were immediately described in such terms as "definitive recording", "exemplary editions", "a resounding success" or "a tonal phenomenon". In addition to the symphonic poems this special edition also includes the Dante symphony, a work that was also composed at Weimar, and Évocation à la Chapelle Sixtine. Volumes 1 to 4 of the series won the International Franz Liszt Record Grand Prix in 2011 and 2012, and the series has received outstanding reviews in specialist magazines around the world.

Liszt: Dante Symphony, S. 109
Vienna Academy Orchestra, Chorus Sine Nomine, Women singers
Martin Haselböck

I. Inferno
II. Purgatorio
II. Magnificat


Liszt: À la chapelle Sixtine, for orchestra, S. 360
Vienna Academy Orchestra
Martin Haselböck

Liszt: Les Préludes, symphonic poem No. 3, S97
Vienna Academy Orchestra
Martin Haselböck

Liszt: Orpheus, symphonic poem No. 4, S98
Vienna Academy Orchestra
Martin Haselböck

Liszt: Ce qu'on entend sur la montagne, symphonic poem No. 1, S95
Vienna Academy Orchestra
Martin Haselböck

Liszt: Hunnenschlacht, symphonic poem No. 11, S105
Vienna Academy Orchestra
Martin Haselböck

Liszt: Hungaria, symphonic poem No. 9, S103
Vienna Academy Orchestra
Martin Haselböck

Liszt: Mazeppa, symphonic poem No. 6, S100
Vienna Academy Orchestra
Martin Haselböck

Liszt: Tasso, Lamento e trionfo, symphonic poem No. 2, S96
Vienna Academy Orchestra
Martin Haselböck

Liszt: Trois Odes funèbres, S112
Vienna Academy Orchestra
Martin Haselböck

3 Odes funebres, S112 / R429: No. 3. Le triomphe funebre du Tasse


Liszt: Héroide funèbre, symphonic poem No. 8, S102
Vienna Academy Orchestra
Martin Haselböck

Liszt: Die Ideale, symphonic poem No. 12, S106
Vienna Academy Orchestra
Martin Haselböck

Liszt: Prometheus, symphonic poem No. 5, S99
Vienna Academy Orchestra
Martin Haselböck

Liszt: Festklänge, symphonic poem No. 7, S101
Vienna Academy Orchestra
Martin Haselböck

Liszt: Hamlet, symphonic poem No. 10, S104
Vienna Academy Orchestra
Martin Haselböck

Liszt: Von der Wiege bis zum Grabe, symphonic poem No. 13, S107
Vienna Academy Orchestra
Martin Haselböck

I. Die Wiege

4:58

II. Der Kampf ums Dasein

3:35

III. Zum Grabe, die Wiege des zukunftigen Lebens

6:55