New article on Inoreader

http://www.youtube.com/channel/UCbObxjfi3W9YKnDS0PgadNAChristopher Taylor, piano: Concert -

It takes extraordinary skill as an orchestrator to condense an entire Beethoven symphony into a version for a solo instrument, but that is just what Franz Liszt accomplished in his piano transcriptions. Hear virtuoso pianist Christoper Taylor perform three of these transcendent symphony transcriptions, works he describes as a “new perspective on something familiar."

For more information and additional videos, please visit https://loc.gov/concerts/christopher-taylor.html This concert is part of our (Re)Hearing Beethoven Festival: https://loc.gov/concerts/beethoven.html

Program:
BEETHOVEN/LISZT: Symphony no. 1 in C major, op. 21
[1:04] I. Adagio molto—Allegro con brio
[10:44] II. Andante cantabile con moto
[18:22] III. Menuetto: Allegro molto e vivace
[22:59] IV. Adagio—Allegro molto e vivace

BEETHOVEN/LISZT: Symphony no. 2 in D major, op. 36
[29:00] I. Adagio molto—Allegro con brio
[42:45] II. Larghetto
[53:30] III. Scherzo: Allegro
[57:17] IV. Allegro molto

BEETHOVEN/LISZT: Symphony no. 5 in C minor, op. 67
[1:04:25] I. Allegro con brio
[1:12:25] II. Andante con moto
[1:22:05] III. Allegro
[1:27:30] IV. Allegro

For more information, visit https://www.loc.gov/item/webcast-9636