Liszt - Réminiscences de Lucrezia Borgia, S400 (William Wolfram)

Wolfram’s phenomenal recording of possibly the most taxing Liszt opera fantasy. Originally composed in 1840 (but revised in 1848) this fantasy contains some of the most tremendous climaxes (09:03) written by Liszt, in which there is no shyness in utilizing the full capacities of the piano. The musical fragments he seized upon, while effective in Donizetti’s opera, pale and thin as they are overtaken by gargantuan elaborations in which Liszt’s reinvention of piano playing—his “transcendental“ technique—pushe