Virtuoso Voices™ - Andrew Litton (Liszt the Ladies’ Man)  0:36
October 2006 CD



Music Suggestion:  Suitable for the Andrew Litton and Andre Watts Performance of the Liszt Piano Concerto No. 1 (Telarc 80429)



Suggested Host Intro:
You’ve heard of the term, “pick up line,” those either clever or horribly clichéd phrases used to start up a conversation with an attractive stranger?  Composer and Pianist Franz Liszt did not need a single word to attract his female admirers.  Conductor Andrew Litton says Liszt used “pick up music” instead.


Litton Clip:  
“I think that’s part of how Liszt, you know, got the ladies.  You know, he was such a ladies’ man – they would swoon in the aisles.  It wasn’t just the technique of the virtuosity of the passage work, it was the fact that he could spin out these beautiful melodies and wonderful harmonic support that, you know, just makes the package complete really. And you can tell that he was a real lady slayer, you know, in his day (laugh) with music like this, how could they not, you know, swoon.  But with these concertos, both of them, the first and second, but in this especially, the first concerto, we are left with high testosterone music, (laugh) if you don’t mind me saying so (laugh).” 


Suggested Host Outro:
Conductor Andrew Litton talking about Franz Liszt and the music we’re about to hear.  Here’s the Piano Concerto Number 1 with pianist Andre Watts and the Dallas Symphony Orchestra.



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