Liszt: Legends of the Saints, Vol. 2 Orchester Wiener Akademie & Martin Haselböck

• Franz Liszt (1811 - 1886): Jeanne d'arc au bûcher for Soprano and Orchestra, S. 373/1:
• 1 Liszt: Jeanne d'arc au bûcher for Soprano and Orchestra, S. 373/1 06:04
• Jeanne d'arc au bûcher for Mezzo-Soprano, Piano and Harmonium, S. 293:
• 2 Liszt: Jeanne d'arc au bûcher for Mezzo-Soprano, Piano and Harmonium, S. 293 07:57
• Die heilige Caecilia for Mezzo-Soprano and Orchestra, S. 5:
• 3 Liszt: Die heilige Caecilia for Mezzo-Soprano and Orchestra, S. 5 09:59
• Sancta Caecilia for Mezzo-Soprano and Harmonium, S. 343:
• 4 Liszt: Sancta Caecilia for Mezzo-Soprano and Harmonium, S. 343 05:11
• Sankt Christoph for Baritone, Women's Chorus, Piano, Harmonium and Harp , S. 47:
• 5 Liszt: Sankt Christoph for Baritone, Women's Chorus, Piano, Harmonium and Harp , S. 47 10:22
• St Stanislaus, S. 688, Scene 4:
• 6 Liszt: St Stanislaus, S. 688, Scene 4: Orchestral Interlude. I. Salve Polonia 09:05
• 7 Liszt: St Stanislaus, S. 688, Scene 4: Orchestral Interlude II. Salve Polonia 07:45
• Ave Maria IV for Baritone and Organ, S. 341:
• 8 Liszt: Ave Maria IV for Baritone and Organ, S. 341 02:00
• Elegy No. 1 for Cello, Piano, Harp and Harmonium, S. 130a:
• 9 Liszt: Elegy No. 1 for Cello, Piano, Harp and Harmonium, S. 130a 04:40
• Psalm 137 "An den Wassern zu Babylon" for Mezzo-Soprano, Women's Chorus, Violin, Piano, Harp & Harmonium, S. 17/2:
• 10 Liszt: Psalm 137 "An den Wassern zu Babylon" for Mezzo-Soprano, Women's Chorus, Violin, Piano, Harp & Harmonium, S. 17/2 08:12
• Angelus ! Prière aux anges gardiens for Harmonium, S. 378/1:
• 11 Liszt: Angelus ! Prière aux anges gardiens for Harmonium, S. 378/1 09:30
• Total Runtime 01:20:45

Info for Liszt: Legends of the Saints, Vol. 2

In this second volume of ‘Legends of the Saints’, the Orchester Wiener Akademie, under the direction of conductor and organist Martin Haselböck, continues its recording of Liszt's mystical works.

During the frequent religious periods of his life, the composer turned his attention to the lives of great martyrs and saints, who provided him with an entire body of work.

These works, including two previously unreleased recordings of Jeanne d'arc au bûcher, Die heilige Caecilia and the Salve Polonia from the oratorio St Stanislaus, are performed here by the Wiener Akademie and a magnificent vocal cast (Sunhae Im, Stephanie Houtzeel and Sofia Vinnik as well as Thomas Hampson), whose timbres blend with the organ, harmonium, piano and harp to reveal the inexhaustible genius of Liszt's work.

Sunhae Im, soprano
Thomas Hampson, baritone
Stephanie Houtzeel, mezzo-soprano
Sofia Vinnik, mezzo-soprano
Ilia Korol, violin
Gottlieb Wallisch, piano
Chorus sine nomine
Orchester Wiener Akademie
Martin Haselböck, conductor

Martin Haselböck
The Austrian conductor Martin Haselböck hails from a famous family of musicians. Following studies in Vienna and Paris, receiving numerous prizes and fellowships, he first gained international attention as an organ soloist, performing with such conductors as Claudio Abbado, LorinMaazel, Wolfgang Sawallisch and Riccardo Muti. Major composers of our time dedicated their work to him, including Friedrich Cerha, Ernst Krenek, Alfred Schnittke, Cristobal Halffter and Amy Gilbert Amy.

Hisoran recordings earnedoutstanding reviews and awards, including the DeutscherSchallplattenpreis, the Diapason d'Or and the Hungarian Liszt Prize. He has more than 50 organ CDs, including a much-acclaimed complete works for organ of Franz Liszt on the NCA label. He has advised on the construction of important concert organs including that of Vienna Musikverein’s Golden Hall, which he helped inaugurate at a gala concert in March 2011. Later that year on the same instrument, he performed Hindemith’s Organ Concerto with the Vienna Symphony Orchestra and Fabio Luisi.

In his role as Court Organist of Vienna, Martin Haselböck’s immersion in the great repertoire of classical church music inspired him to establish the period-instrument ensemble, the Wiener AkademieOrchestra in 1985. He now conducts them in an annual series of concerts in Vienna’s Musikverein. Theyare regular guests and resident artists in concert halls and opera productions around the world and in the 2014-15 season will appear at the Beethoven Festival in Bonn, the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, the Prague Spring Festival, the Beethoven Festival in Warsaw and the Hong Kong Festival. That season Martin Haselbök inaugurates a project to present all the Beethoven symphonies in the Viennese halls where they were first performed. He has conductor more than 80 recordings of the Wiener Akademie Orchestra, in wide-ranging repertoire, including recipients of the Diapason d'Or and the DeutscherSchallplattenpreis.

As Conductor in Residence of the Raiding Liszt Festival, MartinHaselböck is currently completing a major project with the Wiener AkademieOrchestra to perform and record the complete orchestral works of Franz Liszt. The first six CDs in the series, The Sound of Weimar, have been released to outstanding critical praise and awards including the Jun-Tokusen Award and two Grands Prix du Disques from the Liszt Society.

Martin Haselböckenjoys a busy career as a guest conductor with the world’s leading orchestras. He has conducted the Vienna Symphony Orchestra, Leipzig Gewandhaus, DeutschesSymphonie-Orchester Berlin, Dresden Philharmonic, the Staatskappele Weimar, Orchestra Giuseppe Verdi Milano, the National Philharmonic Orchestras of Russia, Spain, Hungary, Czech Republic, Estonia, Slovakia and Slovenia, Orchestre National de Lyon, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra of Flanders, the Marinski Orchestra, the Malaysian Philharmonic and the Sydney Symphony Orchestra among many others. In 2014-15 he makes debuts with the RTVE-Orchestra in Madrid, the HR Philharmonic in Frankfurt, and the Warsaw Philharmonic. In North America his conducting engagements have included concerts with the Los Angeles Philharmonic, Philadelphia Orchestra, the National Symphony Orchestra, the Pittsburgh, San Francisco, Detroit, Vancouver and Toronto Symphony Orchestras, the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra and the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra. In 2004 Martin Haselbøock was named Artistic Director of the Musica Angelica Baroque Orchestra in Los Angeles, conducting a regular concert series in California and tours throughout North American and abroad.

Martin Haselböck has enjoyed a distinguished career as an opera conductor since making his debut at the Göttingen Handel Festival. He was the first to stage new productions of the great Mozart operas performed on period instruments in Germany. His production of Don Giovanni was awarded the Mozart Prize by the City of Prague. He has conducted new operaproductions at the festivals of Salzburg, Schwetzingen, and Vienna and in the opera houses of Hamburg, Hannover, Cologne and Halle. As Artistic Director of the Reinsberg Festival he conducted acclaimed productions of Der Freischütz, Fidelio, Hänsel und Gretel and Acis& Galatea. He will conduct Handel’s Radamisto at the Palacio de Belles Artes in Mexico in November 2014.

Martin Hasleböck has enjoyed a compelling series of collaborations with the American actor John Malkovich and Austrian director Michael Sturminger, developing the music / theatre dramas The Infernal Comedy and The Giacomo Variations. By fall 2013 these productions had seen nearly 150 performances in 72 cities including Budapest, London, Paris, Prague, Warsaw, Moscow, Istanbul, Tel Aviv, Buenos Aires, Rio De Janeiro, Toronto, Chicago, New York. The Casanova Variations with John Malkovich and Martin Haselböck was filmed byAlfama Films for 2014 release.In 2012 Haselböck collaborated with directors Frank Hoffmann and Virgil Widrich on a music / theater work, The Black Cat for tenor, dancers and orchestra, which premiered in Luxembourg. Another music/theatre work, Death of a Diva with Widrich is in preparation to premiere at the Ruhr Festival in June 2015.

Martin Haselböck has received numerous honors and awards, including the Austrian Cross of Honor for Science and Art, the Prague Mozart Prize, the Hungarian Liszt Prize and most recently, the Grand Decoration of Honor for Service to the Republic of Austria.

Booklet for Liszt: Legends of the Saints, Vol. 2