Many still think of Franz Liszt as that pianist with long hair who wrote and played effective and brilliant piano works, and who was apparently a great lover and, strangely, a monk as well. In reality, Liszt was a many faceted man of great cultivation and sensitivity whose enormous musical output was more or less ignored for decades, but nowadays more and more works are getting long needed examination and consideration.
Among these neglected works is the large corpus of Liszt organ music. Liszt played the organ himself, and his improvisations on the instrument made a shattering impact. Like in his piano music Liszt brought organ composition to a next level.
This new recording present the complete works for organ by Liszt. Apart from the famous and mighty B.A.C.H. Variations, the Weinen, Klagen, Sorgen, Zagen Fantasy and the Ad nos, ad salutarem undam Fantasy there is a wealth of unknown works, transcriptions, original works , liturgical works, and a complete Mass and Requiem.
Played by one of Italy's foremost organists, Adriano Falcioni, on the Tamburini-Corna organ of the San Lorenzo cathedral in Perugia, a magnificent instrument which does full justice to the enormous scope of this music. The complete specifications of the instrument are included in the booklet.
Adriano Falcioni made already successful recording for Brilliant Classics of organ works by Franck, Brahms, Reger, Bruhns, Muffat and Daquin.