Kawai Piano Prices: Complete Piano Transcriptions from Wagner's Operas [Paperback] Review

in the sense that these are liszt/s transcriptions of wagner/s music (well, sorta), they can not be anything but, on the one hand, great, for wagner/s music, and, on the other, impossible to play by anyone but liszt. buying this to learn to play liszt/s transcriptions is, for *most* of us, a lesson in futility - no less funny than laughing while falling off the piano bench when looking at ives concord sonata. but that/s not quite why i bought it (altho i laugh everytime i set down at the keys). the theory was to do a bit of orchestration of liszts transcriptions thru my keyboard running thru my imac & garageband (w/the symphony package) and seeing if anything good turns out. can/t say anything yet. but this is a great book for working with on that. wish there was an equivalent cd !

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Product Description:
Features 15 brilliant compositions (1842-1882) on themes from Rienzi, Flying Dutchman, Tannhauser, Lohengrin, and other Wagnerian favorites.