Description

Liszt��s Transcendental Studies (Etudes d'execution transcendante) of 1852 are without doubt among the triumphs of virtuoso piano music, and their visionary language and poetic expression make them a milestone of the romantic age. This set of twelve ��tudes represents the results of the composer��s own revision of a collection already published in 1827 and 1839. Accordingly, the principal source for this edition was a printed copy of the earlier version with myriad changes in the composer��s hand. Each of these pieces, including the famous ��Harmonies du soir�� and ��Mazeppa��, bears its own title and has entered the concert repertoire less as an ��tude than as a tone-poem with its own distinctive flavour. Edited by Ernst-G��nter Heinemann with fingerings by Franz Liszt and preface by M��ria Eckhardt.