The Naxos label's series of albums devoted to Liszt's operatic transcriptions reaches five volumes with this release, and on none of them is there a piece that's even moderately well known. From time to time, these works show up as filler on albums with more familiar Liszt works, but this does not give an idea of just how common operatic transcriptions were in the musical life of the 19th century. The sheer volume in which Liszt produced these works testifies to this, and they remain solid crowd-pleasers. The Naxos albums ...
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The Naxos label's series of albums devoted to Liszt's operatic transcriptions reaches five volumes with this release, and on none of them is there a piece that's even moderately well known. From time to time, these works show up as filler on albums with more familiar Liszt works, but this does not give an idea of just how common operatic transcriptions were in the musical life of the 19th century. The sheer volume in which Liszt produced these works testifies to this, and they remain solid crowd-pleasers. The Naxos albums have various pianists -- this is the first for Young Steinway artist Wai Yin Wong -- and each one is devoted to operatic music of a different composer. The latter removes the program from the realm of a concert Liszt might have played, but it does focus the lens a bit closer on the music involved, probably appropriate for Naxos' complete set enterprise. You get a sense of the various ways Liszt might approach that composer's music. He wrote pieces of types other than the flashy dance...
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