Steven Schwartz ([log in to unmask]) wrote:

>>Don't get me started on Liszt's symphonies.

To which Deryk Barker replied:

>Why not? I think the Faust Symphony is a masterpiece.

Me too!  Not only is it (in a good performance, needless to say) a thrill
and delight to hear, but it is brilliant in formal design (just as much
so as the Sym Fantastique if you ask me), and in it Liszt invents not
only Wagner's so-called "Tristan chord", but also the first tone-row.
Masterpiece: listening yields fascination and excitement, close
examination yields a whole 'nother layer of same.

Jon Lewis
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