LISZT Transcriptions from Opera by Auber and Verdi (Wai Yin Wong)
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Composer or Director: Franz Liszt
Genre:
Instrumental
Label: Naxos
Magazine Review Date: 07/2019
Media Format: CD or Download
Media Runtime: 76
Mastering:
DDD
Catalogue Number: 8 573714

Tracks:
Composition | Artist Credit |
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Tarantelle di bravura d'après la tarantella de La muette de Portici (Auber's Masaniello) |
Franz Liszt, Composer
Franz Liszt, Composer Wai Yin Wong, Piano |
(I) Lombardi (Verdi) Salve Maria de Jérusalem |
Franz Liszt, Composer
Franz Liszt, Composer Wai Yin Wong, Piano |
(3) Auber pieces, Movement: No 1 Introduction |
Franz Liszt, Composer
Franz Liszt, Composer Wai Yin Wong, Piano |
(3) Auber pieces, Movement: No 2 Cavatine |
Franz Liszt, Composer
Franz Liszt, Composer Wai Yin Wong, Piano |
Ernani - Première paraphrase de concert (Verdi) |
Franz Liszt, Composer
Franz Liszt, Composer |
Grande fantasie sur la tyrolienne de `La fiancée |
Franz Liszt, Composer
Franz Liszt, Composer Wai Yin Wong, Piano |
Author: Patrick Rucker
Compensation for this rather stultifying programming is the excellent piano-playing of Wai Yin Wong. Following studies in her native Hong Kong, Wong did postgraduate work in the US at Peabody and Yale. If a greater sense of drama might be brought to these performances, Wong’s clarity, innate musicality and technical mastery are nonetheless impressive.
Alongside Leslie Howard’s capacious Liszt series on Hyperion, the Naxos project of recording all the piano music with various pianists is a worthy one. Thus far the Naxos Complete Piano Works contains some indisputable gems. With significant stretches of repertoire still outstanding, the series could profit by more stringent and discerning programming. Liszt’s transcriptions and fantasies form a unique realm of 19th-century piano music, both in quality and quantity, one which has been historically under-recorded. Surely they warrant the sort of imaginative programming oversight that will show them in their best light.
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