Beethoven: The 9 Symphonies, Transcribed For Piano By Liszt

The symphonic world of Beethoven is not merely experienced as a distant echo but translated into the idiom of the virtuoso piano which swept across Europe during the latter half of the 19th century, led by Liszt and Clara Schumann. Thus in these performances, Giovanni Bellucci seeks a kind of fidelity to the Romantic age of the transcriptions rather than the Classical age of the original works. (Brilliant)