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Triton  OVXL-103 (2 discs)

Stereo Hybrid

Classical - Instrumental

Wagner: Ankunft bei den schwarzen Schwänen, Elegie
Liszt: Feierlicher Marsch zum heiligen Gral aus Parsifal, Isoldens Liebestod (Schlußszene) aus Tristan und Isolde, Am Grabe Richard Wagners, Sonata, Nuages Gris
Schoenberg: 6 kleine Klavierstücke
Webern: Variations
Berg: Sonata

Hiroshi Kato, piano

All

Works (10)

• Alban Berg: Sonata for Piano (1908)
• Franz Liszt: Am Grabe Richard Wagners, S. 202 (after S. 135)
• Franz Liszt: Nuages gris, S. 199
• Franz Liszt: Sonata for Piano in B minor, S. 178
• Franz Liszt: Wagner: Feierlicher Marsch zum heiligen Gral (Parsifal), S. 450
• Franz Liszt: Wagner: Isoldens Liebestod (Tristan und Isolde), S. 447
• Arnold Schoenberg: Kleine Klavierstücke, Op. 19
• Richard Wagner: Ankunft bei den schwarzen Schwänen, WWV 95
• Richard Wagner: Elegie in A flat major, WWV 93
• Anton Webern: Variationen, Op. 27