In these exercises I have tried to put together a material in a concentrated form, but as complete as possible, which on the one hand is sufficient for middle and higher level piano students to achieve a secure technique, and on the other hand for the trained person to ‘train’ and maintain the technique they have already acquired .’ Ernst von Dohnányi (Budapest, June 1929.)

You can find all pieces and excercises of the Piano ABC on this recording. The CD contains only the Primo part of the four-handed pieces.

Ιn addition to two large sets of pieces: the Soirées italiennes based on secular songs (Mercadante and Gaeatano Donizetti), and the Konzerttranskriptionen über 10 geistliche Lieder (Beethoven and Schubert – the last of which incidentally being based on a choral piece by Schubert), the volume includes an arrangement of a romanesca melody from c. 1833. There are also two versions of the transcription of Beethoven’s song Adelaide, and the Grand fantaisie de concert based on themes from Bellini’s opera La sonnambula. In customary fashion, the edition is available in two versions: blue hard clothbound and soft paper bound. A detailed description of the sources and the critical commentary are in the clothbound edition. Both versions are illustrated with facsimiles of Liszt’s original manuscripts.

Volume 35 of the New Liszt Edition contains free arrangements made between 1842 and 1845. Transcriptions of works by Alabyev, Bulakhov, Glinka and Wielhorsky attest to the composer’s journeys in Russia. Alongside them in this volume can be found two operatic paraphrases on themes by Gaetano Donizetti, a recently discovered transcription of Ernst (Herzog zu Sachsen-Coburg-Gotha), a Soriano transcription, paraphrases on national themes and songs: Canzone Napolitana, Gaudeamus igitur, and two French songs, and the Grosse Konzertfantasie über spanische Weisen presenting one melody each of three Spanish dances: the fandango, the cachucha and the jota. The appendix gives some of the more important earlier versions. An interesting feature of the volume is the first edition of the final, considerably reworked version of the Gaudeamus paraphrase.
Contents
1.Valse de concert sur deux motifs de Lucia et Parisina de Donizetti. Seconde édition2.Deux Mélodies russes. Arabesques 1. Le Rossignol, Romance de Alexandr Alexandrovitch Alabieff3.Deux Mélodies russes. Arabesques 2. Chanson bohémienne de Piotr Petrovitch Boulakhov4.Canzone Napolitana, Notturno5.Die Gräberinsel der Fürsten zu Gotha, Lied von Ernst, Herzog zu Sachsen-Coburg-Gotha6.Romance du Comte Mikail Yourievitch Wielhorsky7.Galop russe de Boulgakov – Bulhakows Russischer Galop8.Tscherkessenmarsch aus Glinkas Oper: Russlan und Ludmilla (2nd version – 2. Fassung)9.Gaudeamus igitur, Paraphrase (2nd version – 2. Fassung)10.Marche funebre de Dom Sébastien de l’opéra de Gaetano Donizetti11.Faribolo Pastour. Chanson tirée du poeme de Franconetto de Jacques Jasmin12.Chanson (Pastorale) du Béarn13.Grosse Konzertfantasie über spanische Weisen14.Feuille morte. Élégie d’apres Mariano Soriano15.Valse a capriccio sur deux motifs de Lucia et Parisina de Gaetano Donizetti (1st version – 1. Fassung)16.Romance de Comte Mikail Yourievitch Wielhorsky (1st version – 1. Fassung)17.Marcia Circassa tratta dall’opera Russlan e Ludmilla di Glinka (1st version – 1. Fassung)18.Gaudeamus igitur. Chanson des étudiants. Paraphrase (1st version – 1. Fassung)
 
Pages: 208
Language: English / German
Publisher: Editio Musica Budapest