Gilels plays Liszt/Busoni “Figaro“ Fantasy 1935 rec. (1/2)

Emil Gilels (1916-1985) plays Liszt/Busoni’s Fantasia on 2 themes from Mozart’s “Le Nozze di Figaro“. Recorded in 1935 Fantasy on Themes from Mozart’s Marriage of Figaro and Don Giovanni (German: Fantasie über Themen aus den Opern von Wolfgang Amadues Mozart Die Hochzeit Des Figaro und Don Giovanni), , nicknamed Figaro Fantasy, is an incomplete operatic fantasy by Franz Liszt. Liszt began the work by the end of 1842, and he performed it at the latest in Berlin on 11 January 1843. However, it was never published. Liszt’s manuscript is incomplete and contains no tempo indications, very few dynamics and articulation marks. The ending is some few bars from complete. Liszt probably tried out an improvisated solution in performance, judging by the rather insignificant lacunae. Liszt based this piece on two arias from the opera The Marriage of Figaro: “Non più andrai“ and “Voi che sapete“ (Act II), and the dance scene from the Ac