MUSIC
TUESDAY - FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 24 - 27, 2019
6:00 PM

Liszt: Poetic and Religious Harmonies
Adam Tendler & Jenny Lin
Angel's Share
Green-Wood Cemetery
500 25th Street, Greenwood Heights, Brooklyn

$85
https://www.deathofclassical.com/angelshare/liszt-poetic-and-religious-harmonies

Liszt generally wrote the kind of tawdry, showy Romantic music that's about the opposite of what this List stands for. But his latish Harmonies Poétiques e Religieuses are something else again. They tend toward austerity — but not simplicity, not forgoing Lizst's usual technical intensity (nor his harmonic adventerous) (nor, unfortunately, his sentimentality — but here it isn't rampant). As such, they're not only unlike most Liszt, but unlike most music. They're also some of the only music by Lizst that Your Compiler can stand to listen to. Emphasizing the point, here they're split between a pair of stunningly good pianists who usually specialize in modern music. Also emphasizing the point, they'll be played in a catacomb. Pulling the other way is the unlimited whiskey they'll pour you before the recital.

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