Beethoven/ Giovanni Bellucci - 9 Symphonies Transcribed for Piano By Liszt AEC Music the trumpet sometimes plays in

the trumpet sometimes plays in keys in which not all the notes are contained in the trumpet's natural tone row and the trumpeter has to resort to special techniques to produce these "fake" notes

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This marvelous album is an irresistible addition to the recorded repertoire

But this never occurs at the expense of musical expression

Beethoven/ Giovanni Bellucci - 9 Symphonies Transcribed for Piano By Liszt AEC Music the trumpet sometimes plays inAs the Italian pianist Giovanni Bellucci remarks in an extensive booklet introduction, this album is the fruit of study over the past 20 years and more, into the worlds of both Beethoven and Liszt and their meeting point in these transcriptions where the Hungarian composer sought to honor his forebear as the original leader of an artistic movement we now think of as Romanticism, where the composer places himself at the front and center of his works.