Liszt: Finale de Don Carlos de Verdi - Coro di festa e marcia funebre, S435 (Duchâble)

When Don Carlos first premiered in 1867, the publisher Ricordi commissioned Liszt to write a piece on it, and the composer complied with a modestly demanding transcription, confined to the opening of the second scene of Act III of the five-act version of Verdi’s mighty opera. The title of the transcription is somewhat misleading: Verdi’s number is a single piece of music which juxtaposes a festive chorus of the people of Madrid in praise of King Philip II with a chorus of monks leading those condemned by the Inquisition to death by fire. Liszt’s arrangement is, if anything, more majestic than the original, to which it adheres quite faithfully. François-René Duchâble gives a wonderfully crisp and succinct performance.

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