Réminiscences de La juive, - Franz Liszt/Fromental Halévy [500 SUBSCRIBERS SPECIAL 🎊🎉🎁]

Franz Liszt/Fromental Halévy: Réminiscences de La juive – Fantaisie brillante sur des motifs de l’opéra de Halévy, {Special video for the 500 subscribers milestone on Liszthesis!} “As he did so often in the early fantasies, Liszt composed his piano work within the year of the first performance of Halévy’s most celebrated work La juive. Using motifs from Acts 3 and 5, Liszt produced a work of much originality; the shape of the opening Molto allegro feroce is entirely his, even if the thematic fragments are Halévy’s, and it is not until the recognizable martial chorus (Marziale molto animato, from bar 131) that he uses a whole theme. The succeeding Boléro is only loosely based on Halévy, but is the theme for two variations. The Finale (Presto agitato assai) begins as if it were a third variation but gives way to frenetically foreshortened recollections of the march and the introductory material. The ferocious opening foreshadows the ‘infernal’ m