Concert Paraphrase on Themes of Il Trovatore Franz Liszt
Liszt's admiration for Verdi's operas is evident in the number of
transcriptions and paraphrases he wrote. The work we hear today was written in
1858 and uses several themes from the opera. Liszt makes wonderful use of the
lowest register of the piano, imitating the sad tolling of the bells in the
introduction, accompanying the Miserere. He uses a famous pianistic
texture from the 1830s: the 3-hand technique. Three layers are present at the
same time (in the lower, middle and higher register of the instrument) giving
the impression that the pianist is using three hands. Alexandre Dossin
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Franz Liszt
Il Trovatore – Paraphrase de Concert Play
Recorded on 07/25/2005, uploaded on 01/11/2009
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Concert Paraphrase on Themes of Il Trovatore Franz Liszt
Liszt's admiration for Verdi's operas is evident in the number of transcriptions and paraphrases he wrote. The work we hear today was written in 1858 and uses several themes from the opera. Liszt makes wonderful use of the lowest register of the piano, imitating the sad tolling of the bells in the introduction, accompanying the Miserere. He uses a famous pianistic texture from the 1830s: the 3-hand technique. Three layers are present at the same time (in the lower, middle and higher register of the instrument) giving the impression that the pianist is using three hands. Alexandre Dossin
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