Kirill Karabits & Staatskapelle Weimar | Liszt: Mephisto Waltz No. 3, S. 216

The new album ‘Liszt: Faust Symphony & Mephisto Waltz No. 3’ by Kirill Karabits and Staatskapelle Weimar is available here: play.audite.de/faust-symphony
Triptych of psychological portraits
When Franz Liszt took over the court orchestra in Weimar in 1848, the memory of Goethe, who had previously directed the court theatre, was still venerated. Liszt was therefore Goethe's direct heir at Weimar - albeit as a musician. With his Faust Symphony, which was premiered on the same day as the inauguration of the Goethe and Schiller monument in front of the theatre, psychology made its way into music; Liszt's ambition was the "renewal of music through its more intimate connection with poetry". His Faust Symphony demonstrates the power of sound, of tone painting, to evoke a fantastical, epic and psychological world.
Each movement corresponds to a character whose traits and psychology it depicts. This is programme music, but it does not tell a story and is certainly not descriptive music. Liszt characterised musically the profound nature of each character, offering a subtle and analytical interpretation of the story of Faust as told by Goethe. The three character pictures are psychological tableaux set to music. Liszt does not simply tell the story of the characters or describe their feelings: he evokes their psyches.
Kirill Karabits conducts the Staatskapelle Weimar in this repertoire which is especially close to the ensemble.
On the album:
Liszt: A Faust Symphony in Three Characteristic Pictures, S. 108
Liszt: Mephisto Waltz No. 3, S. 216 (Arr. for Orchestra by Alfred Reisenauer and Kirill Karabits)
Digital bonus track: Lyatoshynsky: Grazhyna, Op. 58
recording: June 12 - 13, 2022
recording location: Congress Centrum Weimarhalle
executive producer: Dipl.-Tonmeister Ludger Böckenhoff
recording producer / editing: Dipl.-Tonmeister Justus Beyer
technician: Karl Epp
music publisher: Verlag: Breitkopf & Härtel (Faust Symphony)
art direction and design: AB•Design
video: Thomas Liebmann
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[@mehdiadlany]

This is such a thrilling arrangement. I love it. I'm glad you're continuing Liszt's legacy. Karabits proved himself a true Lisztian. I can't wait for more orchestral arrangements. So many of Liszt's piano works are excellent material for orchestral arrangement.

[@ruramikael]

I didn't know that Reisenauer had orchestrated anything.

[@richdisilvio4591]

This is fantastic. Liszt has such a huge catalog of magnificent piano music that would be thrilling to hear if orchestrated like this. I would love to hear Funerailles or Fantasy & Fugue on B.A.C.H and other piano pieces arranged. The Transcendental Etudes too. Of course Mazeppa was already orchestrated by Liszt himself, but there are so many masterpieces to choose from, offering listeners an alternative version to appreciate.

[@mehdiadlany]

I totally agree with you.

[@marcosviniciosribeirocompo1137]

This is a positive argument, since Liszt himself liked to make different arrangements of his own work and that of other composers; on the piano, in the orchestra etc...

[@MtFgt]

Wow, brings another dimension to the piece ❤