On this CD:
1. Les Cloches de Genève, for piano (Années I/9), S. 160/9 (LW A159/9)
Composed by Franz Liszt
2. Funérailles, for piano (Harmonies poétiques No. 7), S.173/7 (LW A158/7)
Composed by Franz Liszt
3. Eroica, etude for piano in E-flat Major (Transcendental Etude No. 7), S. 139/7 (LW A172/7)
Composed by Franz Liszt
4. Nuages gris (Trübe Wolken), for piano, S. 199 (LW A305)
Composed by Franz Liszt
5. Fantasie & Fuge über das Thema B-A-C-H, for piano, S. 529/2 (LW A250/2)
Composed by Franz Liszt
6. Erstarrung, transcription for piano (after Schubert D. 911/4), S. 561/5 (LW A50/5)
Composed by Franz Liszt
7. Aufenthalt, transcription for piano (after Schubert, D. 957/5), S. 560/3 (LW A49/3)
Composed by Franz Liszt
8. Work(s) [Unspecified] Transcription for piano of Schubert's "Ave Maria"
Composed by Franz Liszt
9. Rhapsodie espagnole (Folies d'Espagne et jota aragonesa), for piano, S. 254 (LW A195)
Composed by Franz Liszt
Santa Barbara Liszt Album, Music, Franz Liszt, Zeynep Ucbasaran, Chamber Music & Recitals, Character/Single-Movement/Miscellaneous Work for Keyboard, Classical, Etude for Keyboard, Fantasy/Fantasia for Keyboard, Keyboard, Miscellaneous, Miscellaneous Music, Rhapsody for Keyboard, Transcription for Keyboard, Virtuoso piano music of Franz LISZT recorded at Abravanel Hall, Music Academy of the West in Santa Barbara, December 200 . "Brilliant... An outstanding CD..." John Pitt, New Classics, UK
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Santa Barbara Liszt Album
Liszt , and Ucbasaran Manufacturer: Eroica Classical ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD  Chamber Music
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ASIN: B000068RMU Release Date: 2002-05-27 |
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A Five-star Disk.......2002-08-12
Zeynep Ucbasaran has a very, very clear and clean articulation when required, but also is a master of the pedals. She uses that sometimes wrongly-called "loud pedal" to create soft, swirling effects that can be like delicate pastel fingerpainting. I think she is using every trick there is.
She's a master technician overall, who at the same time convincingly presents a very wide emotional panorama, from te fury of "Funerailles" to the fluttering delicacy of the Liszt's variations on the lovely old "Folie d'Espagne." A five-star disk.
Classical Music Review: London.......2002-07-22
Too often Franz Liszt's deepest insights are trammeled by the exhibitionism of the virtuoso. Liszt did write some facile, showy pieces -- a few of the Hungarian Rhapsodies come to mind -- but in his greatest works there is a transcendental spirituality that can touch the soul of even as jaded a cynic as myself. It is this vein in Liszt's music that Zeynep Ucbasaran explores in her "Santa Barbara Liszt Album."
If indeed this is the side of Liszt that Ucbasaran is exploring, she couldn't have chosen a better program. The disk opens with the gentle arpeggios of Les cloches of Genève, an impression of the distant bells of the Swiss city. She follows this with Funérailles. An elegy for Hungarian patriots executed in the wake of the revolution of 1848, this brooding piece is anchored by a relentless death march punctuated by powerful passages of grief and anger. The program continues with "Eroica", from the Transcendental études, a notoriously difficult set of pieces, and that foreshadowing of Impressionism from late in Liszt's life, Nuages gris. These two comparatively shorter pieces are followed by a piano version of Liszt's massive work for organ, the Fantasie und Fuge über das Thema B-A-C-H. Ucbasaran handles the demanding passages of this dense work with elegance. Three varied Schubert lied transcriptions reaffirm Liszt's debt to that composer and the program concludes with a rousing version of the Rhapsodie espagnole.
There is no question that Zeynep Ucbasaran has the technical equipment to handle Liszt's challenges, but what is most impressive is the intelligence and sensitivity she brings to her playing. It is, for the most part, an introverted interpretation. Each piece sounds more desolate and brooding than in other performances I've heard. Yet, far from being oppressive, this approach allows the rays of light that sporadically punctuate Liszt's pieces to shine more brightly, freed as they are from the egotism that often spoils performances of this composer's work. TONY GUALTIERI
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Santa Barbara LISZT Album
Zeynep Ucbasaran Manufacturer: Eroica Classical Recordings ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Classical
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ASIN: B0000C69X9 Release Date: 2003-08-19 |
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Album Description
Pianist Zeynep Ucbasaran started her music studies at age four at the Istanbul Conservatory. She has a Concert Artist Diploma from the Liszt Academy of Music , Budapest, where she studied under Prof. Zempleni Kornel, Prof. Katalin Nemes (pupil of Bela Bartok), Balazs Kecskes, and Prof. Istvan Lantos. She also has a Diploma in Aufbaustudium from the Hochschule für Musik , in Freiburg, Germany, and a Master of Music degree in Piano Performance from University of Southern California . Her awards include American Liszt Society Award, Rozsnyai Memorial Award, Ina Broida Award from UCSB, and USC Associates Music Merit Scholarship. She is also a recipient of the MAA 2001 Aspen Summer Music Festival Scholarship, where she was selected to play in the distinguished artist Master Class of Leon Fleisher. She won the Second Prize at the 1996 Los Angeles Liszt Competition and an Honorable Mention in the same competition in 2000. She has given many recitals in Turkey, Hungary,! Germany, Slovenia, and in the United States.At present she is a DMA candidate in Piano Performance at USC , studying with John Perry. Since 1996 she has been living in Santa Barbara, California.
In February 2002, she completed recording a collection of virtuoso solo piano works of Franz Liszt in Abravanel Hall, Music Academy of the West in Santa Barbara.
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