Introduction

INTRODUCTION

La Campanella is a composition composed by Franz Liszt in 1851. It’s a part of the series of the six Grandes Etudes de Paganini. The idea came along when Liszt wanted to transcribe his good friend Paganini’s Violin Concerto No. 2 in B minor. This whole composition comprises of many wide leaps of the right hand notes more that an octave worth of notes; where this can only be realised by a pianist with good finger technique. 

Our task today is to list out 6 recordings. In these 6 recordings we are going to examine the various performers’ interpretation in terms of dynamics, articulation, speed and tempo used by respective performers, to see whether are these interpretations “right” to our understanding.