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Offline perprocrastinate

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Need help identifying Liszt excerpt
on: May 05, 2014, 04:24:40 AM
What is the piece played immediately at the beginning of the video?

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Re: Need help identifying Liszt excerpt
Reply #1 on: May 05, 2014, 04:42:34 AM
Right at the start? Liszt's transcription of the Liebestod from Wagner's Tristan & Isolde (S 447).

Score here.

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Re: Need help identifying Liszt excerpt
Reply #2 on: May 05, 2014, 10:49:56 PM
Quote from: j_menz on May 05, 2014, 04:42:34 AM
Right at the start? Liszt's transcription of the Liebestod from Wagner's Tristan & Isolde (S 447).

Score here.



Thank you! Those few seconds of music were so immediately captivating that I just had to hear more, and that doesn't happen to me very often with Liszt.
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Re: Need help identifying Liszt excerpt
Reply #3 on: May 05, 2014, 10:58:37 PM
Quote from: perprocrastinate on May 05, 2014, 10:49:56 PM
Thank you! Those few seconds of music were so immediately captivating that I just had to hear more, and that doesn't happen to me very often with Liszt.

To be fair, the captivation probably owes a bit to Wagner. Try the original



Or better still, listen to the whole opera!
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Re: Need help identifying Liszt excerpt
Reply #4 on: May 06, 2014, 04:46:05 AM
Quote from: j_menz on May 05, 2014, 10:58:37 PM
To be fair, the captivation probably owes a bit to Wagner. Try the original



Or better still, listen to the whole opera!

Only if you have 5 hours to spare!

The sore back and starving stomach is absolutely worth it though!
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