Liszt - Grande Fantaisie sur des thèmes de Paganini, S700 (Leslie Howard)

Franz Liszt - Grande Fantaisie sur des thèmes de Paganini, S700 0:00－Grande Fantaisie (Variations) sur des thèmes de Paganini -- La Clochette et Le Carnaval de Venise, S700i 14:28－Grande Fantaisie (Variations) sur des thèmes de Paganini, S700ii Performer: Leslie Howard The two versions of a Grande Fantaisie sur des thèmes de Paganini (D Q], E] are contained within one manuscript, which was completed in Lisbon in 1845 and is presently in Weimar. The work was published in 1989, edited by the excellent Imre Mezó. A few textual observations: first, the manuscript is untitled, but the clear connection of the work with the Clochette fantasy seems to warrant a similar title rather than the ’Variations’ suggested by Editio Musica Budapest(EMB); secondly, the first version of the ending can only be properly reconstructed if some pages of crossed-out material are included from the manuscript - the EMB solution of printing just what was not crossed out does not work, because it no longer connects at the point of its insertion; thirdly, EMB’s bar 139 should not be included - it is part of a partially crossed-out group of bars which have been replaced on the adjacent systems; fourthly, the ’missing’ bars 454- 463 of the second version can be supplied by repeating bars 284-290 rather than by composing some other variant of the Clochette theme; and lastly, the second version’s final chords can be supplied from the undeleted ending of the first version.