My Mother's Songbook

Liszt devoted more than half his output to the transcription. This latter covers a vast field of compositions, from the symphonies of Beethoven to Berlioz, Bach, Lassus and his contemporaries, as well as his own works. Here Elena Rozanova brings together some of his transcriptions of lieder by Schubert, Schumann and Chopin, well-known or not so well-known, that have cradled her childhood. From these virtuoso pieces we can feel the art of Liszt, who manages to preserve the quintessence of the original works and to transcend the word, even though it is absent.