COMPANY: Brilliant Classics
CATEGORY: CD
COMPOSER: Richard Wagner

Product: 5060385450086

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This new Liszt recording presents a generous selection of the transcriptions that Franz Liszt made of orchestral works by Wagner.

Liszt, an ardent and devoted admirer of Wagner, supported him by performing his new operas in Weimar, and by making transcriptions to further popularise the music of his idol. Liszt, the pianistic wizard, transfers the orchestral sonorities to the piano, creating a new work of art, instead of a mere piano reduction of an orchestral score.

The famous Tannhäuser Overture doesn’t lose anything in grandeur and bombast on the piano, and Isolde’s Liebestod is an exquisite, moving pianistic masterwork on its own.

Liszt: Aus Richard Wagners Lohengrin, S446
Liszt: Ballade aus Der fliegende Holländer S441
Liszt: Elsa’s Bridal Procession (from Lohengrin), S445, No.2
Liszt: Feierlicher Marsch zum heiligen Gral aus Parsifal S450
Liszt: Isolde's Liebestod (after Wagner), S447
Liszt: O du, mein holder Abendstern - Rezitativ und Romanze aus Tannhäuser S444
Liszt: Ouvertüre zu R Wagners Tannhäuser S442
Liszt: Stucke (2) aus Tannhauser und Lohengrin, S445/R278
Liszt: Tannhaüser Overture
Liszt: Walhall aus Der Ring des Nibelungen S449