Gounod Faust Fantasy

These virtuoso transpositions of themes by Mozart, Verdi, Bellini, and other masters offer unforgettable music for piano. This affordable anthology was published in association with the American Liszt Society. Table of Contents for Piano Transcriptions from French and Italian Operas Sarabande and Chaconne from Almira, Concert Arrangement (Handel) [Sarabande und Chaconne aus dem Singspiel Almira] Reminiscences of Don Juan [Don Giovanni] (Mozart) [Réminiscences de Don Juan] Reminiscences of Robert le Diable: Valse Infernale (Meyerbeer) [Réminiscenes de Robert le diable /Valse Infernale] Overture to William Tell (Rossini) [Ouverture de l'Opéra Guillaume Tell] Reminiscences of Lucia di Lammermoor (Donizetti) [Réminiscences de Lucia de Lammermoor/Fantaisie dramatique] Concert Waltz on Two Themes from Lucia and Parisina (Donizetti) [Valse de concert sure deux Motifs de Lucia et Parisina] Grand Concert Fantasy from Sonnambula (Bellini) [Grosse Concert-Fantaisie aus der Oper Sonnambula] Reminiscences of Norma (Bellini) [Réminiscences de Norma/Grande Fantaisie] Concert Paraphrase of Rigoletto (Verdi) [Rigoletto/Oper von Verdi/Concert-Paraphrase] Miserere from Trovatore (Verdi) [Miserere aus Trovatore von Verdi/Concert-Paraphrase] Concert Paraphrase of Ernani (Verdi) [Ernani/Oper von Verdi/Concert-Paraphrase] Waltz from Faust, Concert Paraphrase (Gounod) [Valse de l'Opéra Faust de Gounod/Paraphrase de Concert] Polonaise from Eugene Onegin (Tchaikovsky) [Polonaise aus Tschaikowskys Oper Jewgeny Onegin]

Par DIVERS AUTEURS / SARASATE. Quite early in his career, Pablo De Sarasate produced a series of fantasies on themes from popular operas for solo Violin with Orchestral, or Piano accompaniment. The appeal of the Carmen fantasy, with which this collection opens, has remained the most enduring but, perhaps reflecting the varying fortunes with audiences of the operas themselves, settings of Gounod’s Faust and Roméo et Juliette, or Weber’s Der Freischütz are ready for reappraisal today as similarly exhilarating exercises in Romantic violin technique. As an example of Sarasate ’s equally successful and more purely lyrical “salon” style of composition, his Rêverie, Op. 4 is alsoincluded here. / Classique / Répertoire / Violon et Piano

The Piano Bench Of Classical Music is designed to be the cornerstone of your personal music library. This tremendous piano collection contains 400 pages of great music literature, specially selected and edited for the pianist who loves classical music. No other single volume can provide the wealth of exquisite piano selections contained within these pages. Here you will find the world's greatest inventions, movements, nocturnes, valses, mazurkas, intermezzos, romantic short pieces, impressionist works, and light classics - as well as the most rewarding traditional arrangements of themes from the great symphonies, chamber works, operas and ballets by the master composers of the past four centuries. / Piano