Volume 61 of Naxos’s acclaimed Liszt Complete Piano Music edition features opera transcriptions from Les Huguenots, Il giuramento, Lohengrin and Jean de Nivelle.
Nearly half of Franz Liszt’s early output consisted of transcriptions and arrangements, filling out his virtuoso concert programmes with some of the grandest and most popular operas of the day. He cleverly weaves themes through a dramatic Grande Fantaisie on Meyerbeer’s Les Huguenots, while the Fantasia on Mercadante’s Il giuramento is a superb example of Liszt’s flamboyant and virtuosic earlier style. All of these works require delicate brilliance and precision alongside a superb technique to meet their fearsome challenges – the Rondeau fantastique on Manuel García’s ‘El contrabandista’ is one of the most technically demanding pieces Liszt ever composed.
Performed by Martin Cousin, one of the most exceptional pianists of his generation.
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“… The recorded sound is uniformly superb, capturing the full richness of the piano, down to the plummy depths of the left-hand side of the keyboard…”
Lawrence Hansen – American Record Guide – July/August 2024
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