Franz Liszt - Mariengarten: Quasi Cedrus!, S.62

“Mariengarten”, alternatively known as “Mary’s Garden” in German and subtitled “Quasi Cedrus!”, is a sacred work by Franz Liszt for organ and voice. The work came to be only a few years before Liszt’s death, and was first published only in 1936. The piece is very tonal, despite being from his late period; however, other aspects of that compositional stage are present, like that of Liszt’s use of bare monody and the appearances of meandering melodic lines. The libretto was taken from the Bible, specifically Chapter 24 from the apocryphal and deuterocanonical Book of Sirach (also known as the Book of Ecclesiasticus).

Date: around 1884
Catalogue:
Searle 62
Thematisches Verzeichnis der Werke Franz Liszts [LW] J47
R**be 512

Performers:
Kálmán Strausz as conductor
Márta Lukin on alto voice
István Gáti on tenor voice
Zsuzsa Elekes on organ
Hungarian Folk Ensemble Choir

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[treesny]

One of Liszt's loveliest choral peces. 🙂 (And note that the work is scored only for soprano, alto and tenor voices -- no basses.)