Feierlicher Marsch zum heiligen Gral aus dem Bühnenweihfestspiel Parsifal, S450 (Liszt/Wagner) - from CDA66571/2 - Hyperion Records

Scene I of Wagner's Das Rheingold (1876) by Henri Fantin-Latour (1836-1904)

Track(s) taken from CDA66571/2

The Parsifal transcription is surely the strangest. Liszt does not really follow Wagner at all closely. It is as if he were recalling the march in a dream. Liszt’s harmony is a lot less comforting than Wagner’s, and there is no positive conclusion. As in so many of Liszt’s later works, there remains only a desolate silence.

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Recording details: August 1991
St Peter's Church, Petersham, United Kingdom
Produced by Tryggvi Tryggvason
Engineered by Tryggvi Tryggvason
Release date: May 1992
Total duration: 7 minutes 48 seconds

Feierlicher Marsch zum heiligen Gral aus dem Bühnenweihfestspiel Parsifal, S450

composer

Franz Liszt (1811-1886)

composer

Richard Wagner (1813-1883)

1883; Parsifal

Leslie Howard (piano)