🇭🇺Franz Liszt ： Réminiscences de Lucrezia Borgia S.400

This concert arrangement takes memorable melodies from Donizetti’s opera Lucrezia Borgia and reshapes them through Liszt’s characteristic, brilliant piano writing. Singing lines, dramatic climaxes, delicate ornamentation, and technically demanding passages form vivid contrasts, bringing out both the theatrical character of the original and the piano’s wide expressive range. It is important to distinguish the character of each section while organizing the textures so that the melody remains clear. In the more brilliant passages, avoiding excessive momentum and attending to harmonic changes and the direction of the phrases can give the sound greater depth. The expressive, long-breathed phrasing suggestive of vocal singing, together with the integration of virtuosity into the musical flow, is central to the work’s appeal.