Mitch Friedfeld wrote:

>....  Can anyone tell me how many of Schubert's works that
>Lizst transposed?

Technically, they are listed as arrangements, transcriptions, and piano
scores. If we're just talking about the works for piano two hands, there's
enough to easily fill about 10CDs, approximately 70-75 pieces.  In Leslie
Howard's Liszt cycle, there are three 3CD sets (Volumes 31-33) devoted to
Schubert transcriptions alone:

CDA66951/3  http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B000002ZZL/classicalnetA/
CDA66954/6  http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B000002ZZM/classicalnetA/
CDA66957/9  http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B000002ZZN/classicalnetA/

Plus another single disc with transcriptions of works by Schubert and Weber:

CDA67203  http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B0000063BV/classicalnetA/

I personally like most of Howard's performances, and at least for now
he has only a little competition in most of these works.

>Is there a CD out there devoted to this genre?  What
>other works did Lizst transpose?

Liszt stole from, borrowed from, transcribed and arranged just about
every major composer of his day, composers of vocal music in particular.
He especially loved adapting opera themes by Wagner, Rossini, Mosonyi,
Meyerbeer, Donizetti, Verdi, and songs by Beethoven, Dessauer, Lassen,
Schubert, Mendelssohn, himself and many others, as solo piano works.
He also made arrangements/transcriptions for orchestra, piano four hands,
two pianos, and organ.  Humphrey Searle's catalog of Liszt's works has
about 10 condensed pages devoted to these works.  In fact, this general
area of his output rivals in quantity his original works.  No doubt this
is in large part due to his long career as a performing artist.  It was
always wise to recycle tunes with which the public was familiar, adding
the typical Lisztian flourishes.

Dave
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