Yulianna Avdeeva: Metanoia

The internationally renowned pianist Yulianna Avdeeva presents Metanoia, a profound exploration of the late piano works of Franz Liszt, tracing his radical transformation from virtuoso to visionary. Liszt’s late works mark a decisive break with traditional musical language and form, opening the door to 20th-century modernism through bold harmonic experimentation, compressed structures, and strikingly dissonant sonorities. Stripped of conventional melodic development, these brief but intense works convey deep existential reflection, touching on themes of faith, mortality, and the human condition. Initially met with resistance, they would later become a major influence on composers such as Bartók, Scriabin, Debussy, and Ravel. The album unfolds in reverse chronology, culminating in Liszt’s Sonata in B Minor and Légende No. 2. The Sonata in B Minor stands as one of the most important works in the piano repertoire: a single-movement structure of extraordinary dramatic and philosophical scope, where contrasting themes emerge, collide, and transform into a journey from darkness to transcendence. For Avdeeva, Liszt’s music is never purely virtuosic, but an existential inquiry into the deepest aspects of human experience - light and darkness, faith and doubt, life and death - revealing a composer who continually expanded the possibilities of musical thought and expression.

1: I. Lento Assai - Allegro Energico
2: II. Grandioso - Recitativo
3: III. Andante Sostenuto
4: IV. Allegro Energico - Andante Sostenuto - Lento Assai
5: La Lugubre Gondola II, S200, No. 2
6: Bagatelle Sans Tonalite, S216a
7: Nuages Gris, S199
8: Csárdás Macabre, S224
9: Richard Wagner - Venezia, S201
10: Hungarian Rhapsody No. 17, S244, No. 17
11: Unstern! - Sinistre, S208
12: St François De Paule: Marchant Sur Les Flots

Composer: Franz Liszt

Number of Discs: 1

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