This DVD of the recital that Cyprien Katsaris gave at the International Piano Festival of Shanghai Conservatory of Music features the first video recordings of three transcriptions: Katsaris’ own version of Bach’s Toccata and Fugue for Organ, BWV 565; Schubert’s ballet music Rosamunde, Princess of Cyprus by Ernst Pauer; and the Overture The Queen of Cyprus by Jacques-François Fromental Halévy, by Richard Wagner (!), who was an admirer of Halévy. In addition to a number of lesser-known works of Liszt, there is also a Chinese piece that Katsaris learned at the very last moment, an hour before the concert started, especially for the Shanghai audience.

Track Listing
LISZT: Funeral Prelude & March • Nuages gris • Hungarian Rhapsody No. 5 • Csardas obstinée • Bénédiction de Dieu dans la solitude • Am Grabe Richard Wagners • WAGNER (tr. Liszt): Isoldes Liebestod • GUANG: Silver clouds chasing the moon • HALÉVY (tr. Wagner): Overture to La Reine de Chypre • SCHUBERT: Rosamunde Fürtin von Cypern, D797 • Second Ballet Music No 9 (tr. Pauer) • 3 Lieder (tr. Liszt) • J.S. BACH (tr. Katsaris): Toccata and Fugue in D minor, BWV 565 • Prelude from The Little Clavier Book for Wilhelm Friedemann Bach (tr. Ziloti) • CHOPIN: Nocturne in E-flat, Op. 9, No. 2 • GOTTSCHALK: The Banjo • CARRASCO: Adiós