Anima Eterna Brugge: Musikfest Berlin

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The "musikfest berlin 2011" presents a unique performance of a variety of works by Franz Liszt and Hugo Wolf on historical instruments played by the orchestra Anima Eterna Brugge under the baton of Jos van Immerseel and the soloists Pascal Amoyel and Thomas Bauer.

In Liszt’s symphonic poems, poetry and symphonic composition are synthesized into a new kind of expression – a heightened form of poetry. “Only the poet among composers,” wrote Liszt, “is endowed with the power to escape from the fetters hindering the free upsurge of his thought and to widen the boundaries of his art.” The Liszt works will be performed together with the Goethe settings by Hugo Wolf that the composer orchestrated.

Jos van Immerseel and his Bruges‐based orchestra, Anima Eterna, have meanwhile convincingly demonstrated, with Franz Liszt as a case in point, that historical performance practice can also bring new insights into Romantic music. Liszt’s piano works reveal their full expressive range only on a historic instrument. This can be especially impressive with such striking character pieces as the Deux Légendes and Totentanz.