Harmonies poétiques et religieuses, S173/R14 (excerpts)
- Harmonies poétiques et religieuses, S173/R14: VIII. Miserere, d'après Palestrina
Ballade No. 2 in B Minor, S171/R16
2 Légendes, S175/R17
- No. 1. St. François d'Assise - La prédication aux oiseaux
- No. 2. St. François de Paule marchant sur les flots
Harmonies poétiques et religieuses, S173/R14 (excerpts)
- Harmonies poétiques et religieuses, S173/R14: III. Bénédiction de Dieu dans la solitude
Donizetti - Reminiscences de Lucia di Lammermoor, S397/R151
Grande paraphrase de la marche de Donizetti composée pour Sa Majesté le sultan Abdul Medjid-Khan, S403/R157
Arvo Part: Für Alina

Having demonstrated on her previous recording that she possesses the technical chops and highly expressive temperament required to play the devilishly difficult and emotionally taxing music of Alexander Scriabin, Croatian pianist Martina Filjak now presents a program of works by Franz Liszt (1811-1886) of a more poetic and introverted nature despite imposing their own technical demands.

After leaving the stage life behind around 1847 and shedding the audience-conceived image of a wild piano virtuoso, Franz Liszt turned his attention to nobler and loftier pursuits, including a strong religious devotion, which manifested itself in his music in the form of tone poems based on religious subjects or images. Two of the most striking are the St. François d'Assise - La prédication aux oiseaux (the sermon to the birds by St Francis of Assissi), and the Bénédiction de Dieu dans la solitude (praise of God in the solitude). Two pieces that utilize the full extent and expressive range of the piano to evoke sublime concepts and imagery. Pianist Martina Filjak reaches in and uncovers the most profound levels of expression at the root of this music, especially the sense of benevolent light within the Bénédiction. As the piece dies away near the end, she allows each and every note to leave an enduring impression on your mind. Enough said!