Beethoven/Liszt: Symphony No. 9 In D Minor ”Choral”, Transcription For 2 Pianos – Massimiliano Motterle

Beethoven’s thinking is orchestral in all respects and even though his piano writing demonstrates the German composer’s complete mastery of the keyboard technique, a common feeling when playing Beethoven’s piano works is to desire multifaceted timbres. of the orchestra. Franz Listz, who knew Beethoven personally, wrote the transcriptions of his symphonies including valuable details about their original performance. The transcription recorded here, therefore, represents an auditory “look” on the early practices and traditions of Beethoven’s symphonies, transmitted by those who knew the composer; the chance to savor the bare lines of Beethoven’s compositional imagination, but with the splendid piano writing of the pianist par excellence; a challenge that allows one of the best known musical works of all time to shine as if it were just composed. Above all, however, thanks to the talent of the expert pianists Massimiliano Motterle and Fabiano Casanova, it is an experience of pure pleasure that is expressed from the first to the last time, in particular they demonstrate an impressive strength and virtuosity so much that they literally excel. with the orchestral power originally conceived by the titan of Bonn.