Mitch Friedfeld wrote:

>...  There's a a box of piano transcriptions of Beethoven's symphonies
>out there (Zimmerman?  Katsaris?).  Did all of these transcriptions come
>from Lizst?  I was under the possible misimpression that Lizst did only
>a part of B5.  Any opinions on this box?

The Liszt transcriptions of the Beethoven symphonies are all his own
work.  There are two version of the 9th - he initially did it for 2
pianos then reworked it.  There are also transcriptions of Berlioz
Symphonie Fantastique and (IIRC) Harold in Italy.

I'm not overwhelmed by the Katsaris performances I have; there are others,
including a Hamonia Mundi set with different pianists.  There was - for
about 15 minutes - an LP set from EMI with Idil Biret.  Never reappeared.

I'm sure there will be at least 1 CD of Schubert in Leslie Thomas's
immemse traversal of the complete Liszt piano music. Pity he is often
more dutiful than inspired.

Deryk Barker <[log in to unmask]>