In his later years, Liszt more and more pursued his favoured causes through the use of piano transcriptions of different composers’ works; and his personal symphonic poems appeared as transcriptions from the 1850s. In 1865 Liszt famously complained to Hans von Bülow that “I’ve higher issues to do with my time than transcribe, paraphrase, and illustrate, and any longer I shall be extra discriminating on this recreation.” This declaration, nonetheless, was not rigorously pursued, and the profitable exercise continued to help Liszt and his causes all his life. Raymond Bisha introduces a brand new album of Mozart and Donizetti opera transcriptions by Liszt, carried out by Swiss-Russian pianist Konstantin Scherbakov, one in every of right now’s most versatile and achieved artists.
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Catalogue No.: 8.574667
