Library of Congress (Re)Hearing Beethoven Festival: Christopher Taylor, piano
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Ludwig van Beethoven — Symphony No. 2 in D major Op. 36 (S. 464 No. 2) arr. Franz Liszt
Ludwig van Beethoven — Symphony No. 5 in C minor Op. 67 (S. 464 No. 5) arr. Franz Liszt
Franz Liszt — Selected works
Christopher Taylor, piano
Ludwig van Beethoven, arr. Franz Liszt – Symphony No. 1 in C major, Op. 21 (S. 464, No. 1)
Ludwig van Beethoven, arr. Franz Liszt – Symphony No. 2 in D major, Op. 36 (S. 464, No. 2)
Ludwig van Beethoven, arr. Franz Liszt – Symphony No. 5 in C minor, Op. 67 (S. 464, No. 5)
It takes extraordinary skill as an orchestrator to condense an entire Beethoven symphony into a version for a solo instrument, but that is just what Franz Liszt accomplished in his piano transcriptions. Hear virtuoso pianist Christoper Taylor perform three of these transcendent symphony transcriptions, works he describes as a “new perspective on something familiar."
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