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Franz Liszt - The Pilgrimage Years - A film by Angelo Bozzolini
Alex Mariotti (narrator), David Haughton (Franz Liszt), Bridget Borgobello (Marie d’Agoult)
The most extraordinary virtuoso in musical history must surely be Franz Liszt. This documentary, featuring many leading Liszt experts (including Charles Rosen, Leslie Howard, Antonio Pappano and Evgeny Kissin), concentrates on his earlier years when he was travelling across Europe almost non-stop, fuelling the phenomenon described by Heine as ‘Lisztomania’. It was also the time of his elopement with Marie, Comtesse d’Agoult, in a move that scandalised polite society as much for its unorthodox nature as for its moral dubiety. These were the years of artistic journeying to which Liszt would one day return in the evocative musical colours of his Années de pèlerinage.
Facts DVD
Item number
2058868
UPC number
880242588685
Region code
0
Picture format
NTSC 16:9
Sound format
PCM Stereo
Release
Total running time
62 mins
Subtitles
English, French, German
Booklet notes
English, French, German
No. of discs
1
Recording
2011