Franz Liszt - "Liebestraum: Favorite Melodies of Liszt" - 1965 - Columbia Records
Hello Friends,
We're classing things up tonight at the tiki bar! This record features the magic fingers of French classical pianist, Philippe Entremont, and features some selected works of Hungarian composer Franz Liszt. So break out the Bulls Blood, because we've got bad case of Lisztomania tonight!
Excellent record for a stormy November evening. Just a man and his piano playing the 'greatest hits' of the world's first rock star.
Excellent record for a stormy November evening. Just a man and his piano playing the 'greatest hits' of the world's first rock star.
Side One
1. Liebestraum (Notturno no. 3)
2. Concert Etude No. 3 in F minor
3. Consolation No. 3
4. Mephisto Waltz
Side Two
1. Concert Etude No. 3 in D-Flat Major
2. Valse Oubliee
3. Hungarian Rhapsody No. 15 ("Rakoczy March")
4. Canzonetta Del Salvator Rosa
5. Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2
Mephisto Waltz is the album's highlight. Ten minutes of frantic piano playing that's supposed to be about Faust & Mephisto, the devil himself, passing by a village tavern during a wedding. Mephisto grabs a fiddle from one of the local musicians and starts playing this intoxicating melody that causes the Faust to grab and dance wildly with some local tramp. They dance seductively into the night and eventually disappear out of the tavern and into the woods where sinful acts will no doubt follow! (Editor's Note: Coincidentally, this is how Tiki T. and I met!)
Plus, speaking of hotties, who doesn't love a sexy brunette looking over her shoulder while in a fainting chair? Too bad she's dressed like a Mennonite!
RATING: 4.5 servings of chicken paprikash out of 5
1. Liebestraum (Notturno no. 3)
2. Concert Etude No. 3 in F minor
3. Consolation No. 3
4. Mephisto Waltz
Side Two
1. Concert Etude No. 3 in D-Flat Major
2. Valse Oubliee
3. Hungarian Rhapsody No. 15 ("Rakoczy March")
4. Canzonetta Del Salvator Rosa
5. Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2
Mephisto Waltz is the album's highlight. Ten minutes of frantic piano playing that's supposed to be about Faust & Mephisto, the devil himself, passing by a village tavern during a wedding. Mephisto grabs a fiddle from one of the local musicians and starts playing this intoxicating melody that causes the Faust to grab and dance wildly with some local tramp. They dance seductively into the night and eventually disappear out of the tavern and into the woods where sinful acts will no doubt follow! (Editor's Note: Coincidentally, this is how Tiki T. and I met!)
Plus, speaking of hotties, who doesn't love a sexy brunette looking over her shoulder while in a fainting chair? Too bad she's dressed like a Mennonite!
RATING: 4.5 servings of chicken paprikash out of 5
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