Brahms: Paganini Variations / Liszt: Mephistowalzer; Tarantella; Danse macabre; Isoldes Liebestod. Alexander Gavrylyuk (CD)

Johannes Brahms • Franz Liszt

Alexander Gavrylyuk (piano)

Johannes Brahms (1833–1897)

Variations on a Theme of Paganini, Op. 35

Book I

1. Theme (non troppo presto) – 0:28
2. Variation 1 – 0:25
3. Variation 2 – 0:27
4. Variation 3 – 0:25
5. Variation 4 – 1:23
6. Variation 5 – 0:57
7. Variation 6 – 0:22
8. Variation 7 – 0:26
9. Variation 8 – 0:31
10. Variation 9 – 1:41
11. Variation 10 – 1:37
12. Variation 11 (andante) – 1:43
13. Variation 12 – 1:29
14. Variation 13 – 0:31
15. Variation 14 (allegro–presto ma non troppo) – 2:00

Book II
16. Theme – 0:28
17. Variation 1 – 0:56
18. Variation 2 (poco animato) – 0:43
19. Variation 3 – 0:33
20. Variation 4 (poco allegretto) – 0:59
21. Variation 5 – 0:22
22. Variation 6 (poco più vivace) – 0:21
23. Variation 7 – 0:22
24. Variation 8 (allegro) – 0:37
25. Variation 9 – 0:54
26. Variation 10 (feroce, energico) – 0:46
27. Variation 11 (vivace) – 0:28
28. Variation 12 (un poco andante) – 1:23
29. Variation 13 (un poco più andante) – 1:10
30. Variation 14 (presto ma non troppo) – 1:28

Franz Liszt (1811–1886)

31. Consolation No. 3 in D-flat major – 4:09
32. Mephisto Waltz No. 1 – 11:25
33. Isolde’s Liebestod (from Wagner’s Tristan und Isolde) – 6:55
34. Danse macabre (Saint-Saëns / Liszt / Horowitz) – 8:39
35. Tarantella (No. 3 from Venezia e Napoli) – 9:42

Total time: 67:18