P0080. FRANCESCO NICOLOSI: Fantasies on Operas by Bellini (Sigismond Thalberg). (Canada) Naxos 8.555498, recorded 1990. Final Copy! - 747313549825

CRITIC REVIEW:

“By the 1850s, Sigismond Thalberg had built up a major international career as a wizard of the piano, rivaled only by Liszt. For exceptional pianists such as Thalberg and Liszt, transcriptions were a useful vehicle for demonstrating their technical prowess in a form with which audiences were familiar. Bellini's operas made ideal material for these compositions.”

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