Liszt / Thalberg: Opera Transcriptions & Fantasies

If, as Liszt himself dubbed it, 'Hexaméron' is 'a monster', it's a monster which certainly holds no terrors for Marc-André Hamelin, and the encounter between them makes for some thrilling pianism. The remainder of the recital--highoctane transformations of nineteenth-century operatic favourites--is every bit as electrifying, from a musician who never ceases to astonish whatever the repertoire.