Striking Motifs
Eugene Alcalay
plays Liszt -
heard by
ROBERT ANDERSON'Alcalay characterises this music admirably.'
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Having abandoned her husband and myriads of serfs in Little Russia, Princess Carolyne Wittgenstein settled in Weimar, determined, between puffs on her cigar, to make Liszt a great composer. She succeeded. Everything here except the Wagner transcription of 1868 dates from Liszt's Weimar years. Eugene Alcalay has made the four works as 'lyrical' as he can, but they are also technical warhorses bristling with difficulties...
Copyright © 27 June 2012
Robert Anderson,
London UK
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