Gabriele Baldocci - Liszt: Beethoven Complete Symphonies, Vol. 3 (2023)

Franz Liszt’s project of transcribing all of Beethoven’s symphonies took him 25 years to complete. His approach retains a deep fidelity to the original score with piano writing that is sumptuously rich and always perfectly suited to the instrument and its possibilities. A celebration of music as an independent and absolute language, Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony is considered the perfect utterance of his musical philosophy, while the Second Symphony looks to the future as it wrestles with the conventions of symphonic tradition. Gabriele Baldocci’s second volume in this edition (CDS7771) was admired in ClassicsToday.com, in which the ‘Beethoven/Liszt ‘Eroica’ symphony transcription conveys an impressive, multi-levelled pianistic sheen’.

Tracklist
01. Symphony No. 5 in C Minor, S. 464 No. 5 (After Beethoven's Op. 67): I. Allegro con brio
02. Symphony No. 5 in C Minor, S. 464 No. 5 (After Beethoven's Op. 67): II. Andante con moto
03. Symphony No. 5 in C Minor, S. 464 No. 5 (After Beethoven's Op. 67): III. Scherzo. Allegro
04. Symphony No. 5 in C Minor, S. 464 No. 5 (After Beethoven's Op. 67): IV. Allegro
05. Symphony No. 2 in D Major, S. 464 No. 2 (After Beethoven's Op. 36): I. Adagio molto - Allegro con brio
06. Symphony No. 2 in D Major, S. 464 No. 2 (After Beethoven's Op. 36): II. Larghetto
07. Symphony No. 2 in D Major, S. 464 No. 2 (After Beethoven's Op. 36): III. Scherzo. Allegro
08. Symphony No. 2 in D Major, S. 464 No. 2 (After Beethoven's Op. 36): IV. Allegro molto