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Katsaris -- a true piano giant!
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presentation and, therefore, have enjoyed a prolonged Beethoven fest; aptly so, during the 250th anniversary year of the composer's birth and it has been a welcome distraction from the interminable Lockdown period. I am a huge Beethoven fan, and my connection and devotion to his life and music has been a presence since my teenage years.
What we have here, then, is a recording of all 9 Beethoven Symphonies in the transcriptions for piano solo by Franz Liszt. Therein lies a natural progression, musically speaking, as Carl Czerny was a pupil of Beethoven and Franz Liszt was a pupil of Czerny's. I have played other transcriptions of the 9 symphonies, but wanted to sample these.
Of course, transcriptions for piano and organ of orchestral music was a very popular - and money-making - way of bringing such music to a wider audience; particularly during the late 19th and early 20th centuries at a time when it wasn't as accessible as it is for us nowadays with an abundance of concert performances and recordings. They also provide an invaluable and domestic way of studying such music; giving an opportunity to hear the compositions with much greater clarity of melodic line and harmonic structure. I will not provide a detailed analytical thesis of each movement and the player's interpretations, suffice to say that the playing is, on the whole, excellent. Katsaris is well up to the challenge that each of the transcribed symphonies require; the sound is big and, in my opinion, he provides each movement with the sonority that this music requires. I haven't heard the other recordings of these transcriptions, other reviewers have obviously done so, but, these must be the best.
A few minor observations would include the need for a bit more reflection in the playing and phrasing of the slow movement of the 9th Symphony - its first movement sounds like one of Liszt's own Symphonic Poems at times - which was lacking. The absence of vocal soloists and choir are obviously missed. I found the 7th (the first Beethoven symphony I got to know as a teenage horn player) annoying. It sounded like a 'bangfest', as it is full of such hugely repetitive chordal writing. There seemed little evidence of any tonal contrast throughout this version. Beethoven's melodies were, essentially, borne out of a huge chordal framework, and great care must be maintained in allowing his wonderful melodies to predominate above this framework and not to be engulfed by it. Small criticism, though, as these transcriptions are a mammoth undertaking for any pianist - amateur or professional - and having heard Katsaris's performances of these, for me, hitherto unknown transcriptions, it has made me interested in buying the sheet music and examine the 'dots' for myself.
In concluding then, I am glad I bought these recordings of music that lives in my being as if I had composed it myself, and would recommend them enthusiastically to anyone who wants to further their knowledge and appreciation of Beethoven's Symphonies. We need his music more at the present time and I would just say.... buy them and enjoy the trip.
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