Operatic transcriptions recital; first half

[ronde_des_sylphes]

From this year's Edinburgh Festival Fringe.

Did this half purely from memory, slightly regretted it in the sense that I had a few lapses which hopefully are reasonably well covered up.

Verdi-Martucci La forza del destino

My (pseudo)-improvisation on Verdi's Miserere; it was an improvisation a while back, but I can't truly say it is now

Donizetti-Liszt Reminiscences of Lucia di Lammermoor

Bellini-Thalberg Casta diva

Rossini-Thalberg Fantasy on Moses in Egypt - serious memory lapse in this I'm afraid, quite a few bars got omitted when I tried to unearth a sticking note. A most peculiar experience.

Feel free to comment, as always. I hope the pieces are enjoyable.

[imbetter]

were the hell did you get the score for the donizetti-liszt?

[rallestar]

Here's a free one. https://www.sheetmusicarchive.net/dlpage_new.cfm?composition_id=2070

[pianistimo]

i really like the lucia di lammermoor! 

[ronde_des_sylphes]

i really like the lucia di lammermoor! 

Thanks. I really don't care much for Liszt's closing cadenza in it and I inserted my own instead. I also had an extended coda prepared (based on the 2-piano version which I've heard) but didn't have the nerve to play it. (Incidentally, I had a discussion with Thal about the 2-piano version a while back and we decided that it probably doesn't exist in published form, although it cropped up on an obscure CD. Perhaps the pianist wrote his own 2-piano version, based on the original? Certainly it is documented that Liszt played it in 2-piano form c. 1840.)

[rafant]

I'm an opera fan, and enjoy very much the opera piano transcriptions and paraphrasis genere. Congratulations for choosing so exquisite and unusual programme. I don't regret to have missed your recital in Edinburgh because we have now your recordings. Thanks a lot.

Let me ask: Did you get acquainted with the operas in preparing the pieces or your approach was to go directly to the piano scores?

[leonidas]

Bravo!

I love this genre, very impressive repertoire and playing too!

[ronde_des_sylphes]

Bravo!

I love this genre, very impressive repertoire and playing too!

Thanks. It would have been easy to overdose in Liszt in this genre, so I tried to include some other less famous names.

I'm an opera fan, and enjoy very much the opera piano transcriptions and paraphrasis genere. Congratulations for choosing so exquisite and unusual programme. I don't regret to have missed your recital in Edinburgh because we have now your recordings. Thanks a lot.

Let me ask: Did you get acquainted with the operas in preparing the pieces or your approach was to go directly to the piano scores?

If possible, I try to listen to the relevant arias/overtures, but it's not always easy to get hold of recordings (I've never seen a recording of Rossini's "Moses in Egypt", for example). However, sometimes I think certain performance issues (especially tempo) should be approached from a pianistic standpoint.

[leonidas]

Thanks. It would have been easy to overdose in Liszt in this genre, so I tried to include some other less famous names.

I know what you mean, there are many interesting scores I've seen around, always wondered what they'd sound like.

There are less famous *pieces* though, by Liszt, every transcription he made was masterful.