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Topic: Wagner-Tausig Isolde Liebestod  (Read 2426 times)

Offline dnephi

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Wagner-Tausig Isolde Liebestod
on: January 08, 2008, 03:53:11 PM
Anyone have this?  Might be a nice alternative to the Liszt transcription.

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Re: Wagner-Tausig Isolde Liebestod
Reply #1 on: January 08, 2008, 08:53:50 PM
An alternative, but not one of his best.

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Re: Wagner-Tausig Isolde Liebestod
Reply #2 on: January 09, 2008, 12:45:25 PM
So not too effective in performance by comparison?
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Re: Wagner-Tausig Isolde Liebestod
Reply #3 on: January 09, 2008, 08:58:37 PM
It probably lacks a decent recording to do it justice.

The Dennis Hennig recording is uneventfully boring. It is longer than the Liszt and is not really a good performance piece.

I would not spend time on it myself, but then again i would stand no chance of playing it.

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