Title: a technical tour de force, but otherwise a waste of time
Review: If you like Liszt and romantic excessiveness, you'll love this disc (and indeed the other discs in the series). If however, you share my tastes -- everything from early Baroque to late Beethoven and not too much thereafter, you'll probably despise this.To see why, consider for example, track 2 of disc 1, entitled "Réminiscences de Don Juan" -- almost 20 minutes of music based on Mozart's Don Giovanni. I love Don Giovanni and know it very well. I would say about 4 or 5 minutes are completely recognizable Mozart, about 10 minutes are butchered Mozart and the rest are pure Liszt extravagences. You will be very impressed with Howard's playing, but if your looking for recognizable transcriptions of both well-known and obscure operatic works, you will be disappointed. This track is more Liszt than Mozart. And one can make similar comments about the other tracks.
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