Franz Liszt - Trois Odes Funèbres (Audio + Full Score)

Franz Liszt - Trois Odes Funèbres, for orchestra (1860-66) Rudfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin Conductor - Karl Anton Rickenbacher 1. Les Morts - 0:00 2. La Notte - 10:54 3. Le Triomphe funèbre du Tasse: Epilogue du poème symphonique “Tasso“ - 23:42 Liszt’s Trois Odes funèbres were composed between 1860 and 1866, and exist in a variety of versions: for orchestra, for piano solo and for piano duet. There is also a chorus in the first Ode and the possibility of a narrator in the first and second. The first is also an organ piece, with the title Trauerode, and La notte also exists for violin and piano. The third of the Odes is also entitled ‘Epilogue to the Symphonic Poem: Tasso, Lamento e Trionfo’, and in its orchestral version it enjoyed a certain vogue towards the end of the nineteenth century, especially when conducted by its dedicatee Leopold Damrosch. Although it is quite clear from the original manuscripts that Liszt intended these works to be perfo