Content:

Matti Raekallio
A Night at the Opera



Artists:
Matti Raekallio, piano

Genres:
Instrumental
Opera

Features:

Booklet with liner notes in English, German, French and Finnish

Format:
CD

Released:
November 1994

Catalogue No.:
ODE 834-2

EAN/UPC Code:
0761195083420

Track listing

CD 73:04
Ferrucio Busoni (1866-1924)
1 Réminiscences de Don Juan (Mozart: Don Giovanni/transcr. Liszt) 14:36
Wilhelm Kempff (1895-1991)
2 Orpheus' Klage (Gluck: Orfeo ed Euridice) 4:49
Johannes Brahms (1833-1897)
3 Gavotte (Gluck: Paride ed Elena) 3:56
Ferrucio Busoni (1866-1924)
4 Figaro-Fantasie (Mozart: Le nozze di Figaro, transcr. Liszt) 13:20
Franz Liszt (1811-1886)
5 O du mein holder Abendstern (Wagner: Tannhäuser) 6:07
6 Spinnerlied (Wagner: Der fliegende Holländer) 5:45
Carl Tausig (1841-1871)
7 Der Ritt der Walküren (Wagner: Die Walküre) 5:05
Franz Liszt (1811-1886)
8 Isoldes Liebestod (Wagner: Tristan und Isolde) 7:23
Ferrucio Busoni (1866-1924)
9 Sonatina No. 6 (Kammerfantasie über Bizets Carmen) 3:35
Vladimir Horowitz (1903-1989)
10 Carmen Variations 3:35



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Complete description

This CD features Finnish pianist Matti Raekallio with a selection of famous 18th- and 19th-century-opera transcriptions by Liszt, Tausig, Brahms, Busoni, Kempff and Horowitz. The Carmen Variations of the latter had never before been recorded by any pianist other than Vladimir Horowitz himself.