Liszt - Réminiscences de La juive, S409a (Wong)

First performed in 1835 and published the following year, Liszt’s Réminiscences de La juive has long been considered problematic by critics, but although filled with his youthful virtuosic exuberance, it is a work of undeniable inventiveness: the shape of the opening Molto allegro feroce is entirely his (even if the thematic fragments are Halévy’s) and it is not until the recognizable martial chorus (3:20) that he uses a whole theme. The succeeding Boléro is only loosely based on Halévy, but is the theme fo