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Transcendental Etudes, S. 139 (complete)
Franz Liszt

Sebastian Di Bin

Transcendental Etudes, S. 139 (complete)

Price: € 14.95
Format: CD
Label: Centaur Records, Inc.
UPC: 0044747347929
Catnr: CRC 3479
Release date: 16 September 2016
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Label
Centaur Records, Inc.
UPC
0044747347929
Catalogue number
CRC 3479
Release date
16 September 2016
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About the album

Italian pianist Sebastian Di Bin provides us here with an intriguingly beautiful performance of Franz Liszt’s complete Transcendental Etudes. Sebastian Di Bin has dedicated this album to the memory of his brother, Francois, who passed away in March 2015. The composition of Liszt’s twelve Transcendental Etudes began when the 15-year-old composer composed a set of much less difficult exercises titled the Etude en douze exercices. These works were elaborated upon to become his Douze Grandes Etudes in 1837, then finally revised and republished in 1852 as the etudes performed here.

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Sebastian Di Bin (piano)

Sebastian Di Bin was born in Udine, Italy in 1981.  He is truly one of the finest pianists of his generation.  He has won numerous prizes in international piano competitions.  He has performed throughout Italy, as well as in Holland, Switzerland, France, Austria, Germany, Gelgium, Slovenia, The United States, and South Africa.  
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Sebastian Di Bin was born in Udine, Italy in 1981. He is truly one of the finest pianists of his generation. He has won numerous prizes in international piano competitions. He has performed throughout Italy, as well as in Holland, Switzerland, France, Austria, Germany, Gelgium, Slovenia, The United States, and South Africa.
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Franz Liszt

If you would open any biography of Franz Liszt, you would probably mostly read about his disquiet life as a piano virtuoso, his passionate love life, and the return to his catholic roots at the end of his life. Although all of this might be true, it only scratches the surface of his comprehensive musical personality. Liszt was a pianist, conductor, teacher and organiser, but above all he was a composer of a voluminous, capricious body of work. Even though his piano works formed his core business, he gave rise to the symphonic poem, got rid of the organ's stuffy appearance, and reinvigorated the oratorio. Moreover, with his piano transciptions of Bach's organ works and Berlioz's Symphonie Fantastique, he was an...
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If you would open any biography of Franz Liszt, you would probably mostly read about his disquiet life as a piano virtuoso, his passionate love life, and the return to his catholic roots at the end of his life. Although all of this might be true, it only scratches the surface of his comprehensive musical personality. Liszt was a pianist, conductor, teacher and organiser, but above all he was a composer of a voluminous, capricious body of work. Even though his piano works formed his core business, he gave rise to the symphonic poem, got rid of the organ's stuffy appearance, and reinvigorated the oratorio. Moreover, with his piano transciptions of Bach's organ works and Berlioz's Symphonie Fantastique, he was an advocate of both old and new music.
Together with his son-in-law Richard Wagner, he was in the forefront of the Romantic movement and anticipated the musical revolutions of the early 20th century with his new composition techniques.


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