Liszt, Franz - Complete Piano Music Vol 28: Beethoven Symphony No. 9 (arr. for 2 pianos) - Wass, Ashley (piano)
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This transcription for two pianos of Beethoven's ninth Symphony, with its careful inclusion of original phrasing and occasional specification of the original instrumentation, avoids the obvious difficulties of a transcription for a single piano, partially solved there by the inclusion on extra staves of the choral parts of the last movement of the symphony. The twopiano version, as published, includes the words, printed in the score, and clarifies, as in the other Beethoven symphony transcriptions of Liszt, the part-writing and structure of one of the great monuments of Western music. In his modest preface to the later published transcriptions Liszt suggests that the poorest lithograph and the most incorrect translation still give a vague idea of the genius of Michelangelo, of Shakespeare, and that the piano, with its increased range, could largely reproduce all features, all combinations, all figurations of the most thorough and profound musical creations, lacking only the very great advantages of variety of tone colours: his aim had been to perform the function of an intelligent engraver or a conscientious translator, able to understand the spirit of a work and to promote wider knowledge of the great masters.