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Franz Liszt’s work for piano and orchestra ‘Totentanz’, is a paraphrase on the Gregorian plainchant ‘Dies irae’, was first published in 1849. It contains Medieval sounding passages with canonic counterpoint, but the most innovative aspect of the scoring is the shockingly modernistic, even percussive, nature of the piano part. It was later arranged for solo piano in 1859. This 1997 performance by Arnaldo Cohen is vol. 1 in our ongoing Liszt Complete Piano Music series (now at vol. 60). “Cohen is

A remarkable interpretation by France Clidat, aka Madame Liszt, of Franz Liszt’s Totentanz with Erich Bergel and the NHK Symphony in Japan. Totentanz (Dance of Death) is one of the pieces Liszt work and reworked on for years. Liszt had an obsession with death: subtitled « Paraphrase on Dies Irae », Totentanz is a set of variations for piano and orchestra based on the famous medieval plainsong for the Mass for the Dead that is omnipresent in classical music. As you know, France Clidat was the fir