Schubert/Liszt: Wanderer Fantasy - Tchaikovsky: Concert Fantasy

Description

Pianist Lukas Geniusas pays tribute to the Fantasy, a form synonymous with freedom, dear to the Romantics. Schubert sets to music the figure of the wandering vagabond with his Lied Der Wanderer which, a few years later, would give birth to a large-scale instrumental work: the Fantasy in C major, D. 760 (1822), later known as the "Wanderer" Fantasy. Its four-part structure could be that of a sonata cycle in four movements, but these sections follow one another without interruption in a continuous process, like an unbroken journey. Fascinated by this work, Liszt wrote his transcription for piano and orchestra in 1851, two years before his famous Sonata in B minor, which is also monothematic and unfolds as a single vast movement. More in the Classical tradition, Tchaikovsky cultivates virtuosity and instrumental brilliance in his Concert Fantasy of 1884. With the Sinfonieorchester St. Gallen, under the direction of Modestas Pitrenas, Geniusas offers the rare (even unprecedented) coupling of these two fantasies, separated by a little over six decades.