Among the most famous works in the Liszt oeuvre is La Campanella: a peppering of octaves gives way to a light eerie melody, and then all is given a new confidence with a few simple arpeggiated chords – undoubtedly a masterpiece, but whose is it? That gorgeous melody is not Liszt's but Paganini's and it is from his second concerto. In Paganini's La Campanella a lot of the Liszt material is present but in quite a different precedence. And hence the Liszt work is considered above mere transcription – vindicated from that sordid label, and so performed rather widely (for the best recording of Liszt's La Campanella, I would recommend Edith Farnadi). Others were not so lucky.
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