This box of hitherto unissued recordings will be a must for any pianophile, for Michele Campanella is already known as a Liszt player of the highest distinction, who has played the composer’s music for many decades now.

Michele Campanella is internationally known as one of the major interpreters of the Liszt repertoire, and has three times been awarded the Grand Prix du Disque (1976, 1977 and 1998) by the prestigious “Franz Liszt” Academy in Budapest.

These recordings were made in Italy in the last 10 years, and reveal him as an ever more acute interpreter of this often elusive music.

Contents:
CD 1: Études d’exécution transcendante S139 (1852)
1. Preludio
2. (Molto vivace)
3. Paysage
4. Mazeppa
5. Feux follets
6. Vision
7. Eroica
8. Wilde Jagd
9. Ricordanza
10. (Allegro agitato molto)
11. Harmonies du soir
12. Chasse-neige

CD 2: Wagner Transcriptions I
1. Phantasiestück S439 on themes from Rienzi
Tannhäuser
2. O, du mein holder Abendstern (Act I) S444
3. Entry of the Guests (Act III) S445 No.1
4. Walhall S449 on themes from Der Ring des Nibelungen
Lieder aus der Musik von Eduard Lassen zu Hebbels Nibelungen
5. Hagen und Kriemhild
6. Bechlarn
Der fliegende Holländer
7. Ballade S441
8. Spinnerlied S440

CD 3: Wagner Transcriptions II
Lohengrin
1. Elsas Brautzug zum Münster S445 No.2
2. Elsas Traum S446 No.2
3. Lohengrins Verweis an Elsa S446 No.3
4. Festspiel und Brautlied S446 No.1
5. Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg: Am stillen Herd S448
6. Isoldes Liebestod S447
7. Parsifal: Feierlicher Marsch zum heiligen Graal S450

CD 4: Symphony No.6 in F Op.68 ‘Pastorale’ from S464
I. Allegro ma non troppo
Awakening of happy feelings on arriving in the country
II. Andante molto moto
By the brook
III. Allegro
Merry gathering of the country folk
IV. Allegro
Thunder and storm
V. Allegretto
Shepherds’ song. Beneficent feelings with thanks to the Godhead after the Storm

CD 5: Verdi Transcriptions
1. Ernani: Paraphrase de concert S431a (or S432)
2. Jérusalem: Salve Maria S431
3. Il trovatore: Miserere S433
4. Rigoletto: Paraphrase de concert S434
5. Don Carlo: Coro di festa e Marcia funebre S435
6. Messa di Requiem: Agnus Dei S437
7. Réminiscences de Boccanegra S438
8. Aida: Danza sacra e duetto finale S436

CD 6: Opera Transcriptions
1. Concert paraphrase S410 on the Wedding March and Dance of the Elves from A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Mendelssohn)
2. Les Adieux S409: Rêverie on a theme from Roméo et Juliette (Gounod)
3. La Sonnambula: Grande Fantaisie de Concert S627 (Bellini)
4. Les Sabéennes S408: Berceuse from La Reine de Saba (Gounod)
5. Valse S407 from Faust (Gounod)
6. Transcription brillante S456 of the Valse d’Adèle for the left hand (Géza Zichy, Count Vasony-Keö)
7. Réminiscences de Don Juan S418 (Mozart)