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Tasso - Lamento e Trionfo (S.96) / Tasso - Lament and Triumph (S.96)

Composer
Liszt Ferenc
Original / Hungarian title
Tasso - Lamento e Trionfo (S.96) / Tasso - Panasz és diadal (S.96)
Foreign language / English title
Tasso - Lamento e Trionfo (S.96) / Tasso - Lament and Triumph (S.96)
Subtitle
Symphonische Dichtung, No. 2 / Symphonic Poem, No. 2
Dedication
To Princess Carolyna von Sayn-Wittgenstein
Year of composition
1849
Type
Symphony orchestra
Instrumentation
picc., 2 fl., 2 ob., 2 cl., cl.b., 2 fg. - 4 cor., 4 tr., 3 trb., trb.b., tuba - arpa - timp., perc. (trg., tmb.mlt., ptti., gr.c.) - strings
Duration
19 min
Movements, parts
One movement
Commissioned by
Theater Weimar, for the 100th Anniversary of J. W. von Goethe
Premiere information
28 August 1849, 100th Anniversary of J. W. von Goethe, Theater Weimar, Germany; Ferenc Liszt (cond.) (Original version as Overture)

19 April 1854, Weimar, Germany; Ferenc Liszt (cond.) (Final version as Symphonic Poem)
Publisher / Source
Edition Breitkopf and Härtel

Editio Musica Budapest © 1985, Z. 40 069
Available here!
Recordings
BMC Records, BMC CD 009, 1998 - Hungarian National Philharmonic Orchestra, Zsolt Hamar (cond.)
Hungaroton HCD 12446 - 1994; Hungarian State Orchestra, János Ferencsik (cond.)
Hungaroton HCD 12677-81, 1994 - Budapest Symphony Orchestra, Árpád Joó (cond.)
1 min. sample
1 Tasso - Lamento e Trionfo (S.96)
Remarks, other info
Composed in 1849, revised: 1850 and 1854
 

Recordings

Title Publisher
Art Nova Classics