Liszt - Réminiscences des Puritains, S390i (Hegedűs)

In the days before gramophone records, radio broadcasts and the miniature score, save for attending an actual performance, music-lovers only had access to orchestral and operatic scores in pared down arrangements that were principally for the piano and for performance in the drawing room or salon. Liszt was the undisputed master of the ‘art of the transcription’ making numerous arrangements of songs, operas and symphonies. He mainly championed the music of those contemporaries that were in vogue or he felt