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Verdi-Thalberg Fantasy on La Traviata

A Christmas surprise for my subscribers! Recorded on a beautiful Hamburg Steinway Model D at the Reid Hall, Edinburgh, 6th Sept 2012. From the album 'A Night at the Opera' (2013) and later re-released on 'The Operatic Pianist' (2014: Divine Art catalogue DDA 25113). You can also find the source album(s) on Spotify and please feel free to explore the fruits of what were some very intense labours 😏 https://open.spotify.com/album/3kepVM... I am very fond of this piece: it is extremely difficult but not exclusively virtuosic: the demanding technical passages alternate with some beautifully expressed melancholy. From my album sleeve notes: Thalberg's Fantasy on La Traviata (or Grande fantasie de Concert sur l'opera La Traviata de Verdi, to give it its full, and somewhat portentous, title) is one of his later works, and it is interesting to see how, towards the climax, he almost completely eschews his speciality of arpeggiated "three-handed" effects (the most famous of which being the climax of his Moses Fantasy) in favour of some very Lisztian alternate octave/chord effects. This is not to say that the three-handed effect does not occur elsewhere; the section with a full page of right hand semiquaver octaves is a cunningly-written example. The connoisseur of Liszt and Thalberg may note that, post-1837 duel, Thalberg's arpeggio effects became very common in Liszt's writing (e.g. the Norma Fantasy). I suspect that both were impressed by the other's speciality and embraced the concept.