Cello; Piano
Accompaniment
SKU:
HL.50512037
Cello
and Piano. Composed
by Franz Liszt. Edited by
Csiky Boldizsar. Arranged
by Csí, ky
Boldizsá, and r.
Romantic. EMB. Classical.
Softcover. 14 pages.
Editio Musica Budapest
#Z14779. Published by
Editio Musica Budapest
(HL.50512037).
ISBN
9790080147795. UPC:
884088668723.
9.0x12.0x0.079 inches.
Ferenc Liszt; Boldizsar
Csiky.
The arranger
of this work (a
well-known Hungarian
composer living in
Romania) writes: +This
piece has always excited
my imagination, from
several points of view.
First of all, its name.
The German title, the
obstinate one, may refer
to its ostinato
character. This is close
to Liszt's programme
concept, but the French
word 'obstine' is closer
in meaning to stubborn.
There is just a shade of
difference, but to me it
is important, because the
latter suggests the
description of a type of
behaviour, the emotional
state of a dancer's inner
frame of mind abstracted
into movements, expressed
in dance movements, and
this is a fascinating
interpretation. The
demonstration of stubborn
resistance and defiance
to the point of
exhaustion was not a
frequently occurring
phenomenon with Liszt.
Secondly, at the
beginning of the
seventies Zoltan Kocsis
played the piece in
Transylvania. At that
time, I asked the
composer, +Is the
character of the
continuous staccato in
the left hand sharp,
short, or an accompanying
background like a
constant shadow? Is it a
weighty Brahmsian
staccato, an ominous
knocking? - and so on.
Then there are the
Bartokian false relations
that keep recurring in
the work, the B-E flat-G,
etc. That foreshadows
Debussy, creating
harmonic thrills that,
when I hear the work,
keep my continuing
interest alive for it.
Finally, my immediate
reason for arranging the
work was of a family
nature: in connection
with Liszt's jubilee
year, my daughter, who is
a cellist, wanted a 'more
energetic' piece to play
at a bicentenary concert
an addition to the
existing slow, lyrical,
or sombre works written
by Liszt for the
cello.+.
