Notes by Charles Rosen:
The Soirées de Vienne is the sixth and most famous of Liszt's transcriptions of Schubert waltzes. It was one of Rosenthal's favorite pieces. Liszt later made a fussier version, but I prefer the first; the extension of Schubert's melodies is done with great refinement, and we have here the beginning of the great series of Viennese waltz transcriptions.

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