F. Liszt - Mephisto Waltzes (Complete) (Cyprien Katsaris)

Cyprien Katsaris, piano. Score edition engraved by Imre Mező and Imre Sulyok - available from IMSLP for free. 0:00 - No. 1, The most popular of the series and, along with the third Waltz, most praised musically, the Der Tanz in der Dorfschenke: Erster Mephisto-Walzer (“The Dance in the Village Inn: First Mephisto-Waltz“), or the First Mephisto Waltz, is the second of two short works he wrote for orchestra under the title Zwei Episoden aus Lenaus Faust. While the work preceding it, Midnight Procession (Der nächtliche Zug), is rarely given (though both works have been recorded together), the waltz has been a concert favorite, with its passion, sensuality and dramatics generating an emotional impact. 11:09 - No. 2, The Second Mephisto Waltz, , followed the first by some 20 years. Its composition took place between late 1880 and early 1881. Liszt wrote the orch