Most listeners will be unfamiliar with Saradanapolo, the second and major work on the program of this release featuring conductor Kirill Karabits, leading Liszt's orchestra, the Staatskapelle Weimar. Saradanapolo was an unfinished opera by Liszt, long thought to be fragmentary and unperformable. Liszt (who left a lot of music incomplete) finished only the first act, abandoning the work possibly because he had disagreements with the librettist, possibly because he had read Wagner's writings and was not keen to be associated ...
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Most listeners will be unfamiliar with Saradanapolo, the second and major work on the program of this release featuring conductor Kirill Karabits, leading Liszt's orchestra, the Staatskapelle Weimar. Saradanapolo was an unfinished opera by Liszt, long thought to be fragmentary and unperformable. Liszt (who left a lot of music incomplete) finished only the first act, abandoning the work possibly because he had disagreements with the librettist, possibly because he had read Wagner's writings and was not keen to be associated with an Italian opera. Further, he left the work only in a piano score. He did, however, include some indications as to orchestration, and it is thought that he intended to leave that task to his student Joachim Raff. Thus, British musicologist David Triplett was on solid ground in attempting a completion of the first act. The results are striking. Triplett's orchestrations are convincing, flowing naturally from those in the symphonic poem Mazeppa, which opens the program. But even...
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