Tuesday, October 11, 2011

Strauss Till Eulenspiegel

Strauss Alpine Symphony

Lang Lang Recital

Faust Symphony

Schubert Symphony No. 9

Le Boeuf sur le Toit

Elgar Violin Concerto

Dvorak Symphony No. 6

Dvorak Symphony No. 8

Beethoven Piano Concerto No. 4

Mozart Piano Concertos

Chopin Anniversary Concert

Rubinstein Recital

Beethoven Piano Concerto No. 5

Beethoven Violin Concerto

Beethoven Symphony No. 3

Beethoven Symphony No. 8

Bach Magnificat

Verdi Requiem

Mozart Requiem

Missa Solemnis

Saturday, April 23, 2011

Franz Liszt's A Faust Symphony in Piano Transcription

In my youth I passionately admired Manfred and valued him much more than Faust, who, between you and me, in spite of his marvelous prestige in poetry, seemed to me a decidedly bourgeois character. For that reason he becomes more varied, more complete, richer, more communicative . . . (than Manfred) . . . Faust's personality scatters and dissipates itself; he takes no action, lets himself be driven, hesitates, experiments, loses his way, considers, bargains, and is interested in his own little happiness. Manfred could certainly not have thought of putting up with the bad company of Mephistopheles, and if he had loved Marguerite he would have been able to kill her, but never abandon her in a cowardly manner like Faust.

--Franz Liszt