Love & Death: Piano Transcriptions of Wagner and Verdi Operas
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Label: Piano Classics
Cat No: PCL0101
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 1
Genre: Instrumental
Release Date: 4th December 2015
Contents
Works
Concert paraphrase on themes from Il Trovatore (Verdi)Danza Sacra and Duetto Finale from Aida (Verdi), S436
Rigoletto Paraphrase, S434
Concert Fantasy on Verdi's 'La Forza del Destino'
Paraphrases (3) on Tristan und Isolde (Wagner)
Die Walkure
Artists
Abdiel Vazquez (piano)Works
Concert paraphrase on themes from Il Trovatore (Verdi)Danza Sacra and Duetto Finale from Aida (Verdi), S436
Rigoletto Paraphrase, S434
Concert Fantasy on Verdi's 'La Forza del Destino'
Paraphrases (3) on Tristan und Isolde (Wagner)
Die Walkure
Artists
Abdiel Vazquez (piano)About
These rarely heard piano transcriptions of Wagner and Verdi operas share a common theme: Love and Death, the two most important themes of opera, as a reflection of human life and fate.
First the pianist Abdiel Vazquez presents his own 'Meistersinger Rhapsody', a stunning pianistic tour de force. The three Wagner transcriptions (Ride of the Valkyries, Siegmund’s Love Song, Love Scene and Transfiguration from Tristan) are by Carl Tausig, Liszt’s favourite pupil, an awesome pianist and composer who died tragically young.
The Concert Fantasy over themes from La Forza del Destino is by Italian composer Giuseppe Martucci (a wonderful composer with a fine ear for instrumental colours), followed by two famous paraphrases by Liszt (Rigoletto, Aida). The disc finds a spectacular conclusion in the fiendishly difficult Trovatore Paraphrase by György Cziffra.
Abdiel Vazquez is one of the foremost pianists of Mexico, and a first Prize Winner of the New York Shining Stars Debut Series, which brought him his Carnegie Hall debut. He presently lives in New York.
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