One of the reasons Liszt transcribed for piano the works of Beethoven, Wagner, and others was so that those works could be heard by audiences who didn't normally have a chance to hear good orchestra or opera performances. Liszt knew how to capture the detail of the orchestral sound in his transcriptions. That detail isn't quite as obvious as one would like in Konstantin Scherbakov's performance of Liszt's transcription of Beethoven's Symphony No. 9. The overall impression is that this is a large-scale piano work by ...
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One of the reasons Liszt transcribed for piano the works of Beethoven, Wagner, and others was so that those works could be heard by audiences who didn't normally have a chance to hear good orchestra or opera performances. Liszt knew how to capture the detail of the orchestral sound in his transcriptions. That detail isn't quite as obvious as one would like in Konstantin Scherbakov's performance of Liszt's transcription of Beethoven's Symphony No. 9. The overall impression is that this is a large-scale piano work by Beethoven, like his late piano sonatas, not an orchestral work. Scherbakov does reasonably well with the difficult work, but what's needed is more voicing, that is, more careful separation of the lines of music, and more lyricism. Beethoven used elements of fugue in many places in this symphony. Scherbakov always brings out the subject in these mini-fugues, but as soon as any subsequent subject begins, the preceding lines are lost in a general accompaniment to the new subject. Because of...
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