What is left of Parsifal in our memories when listening is over? Melodies, textures, climate, some magic sound. By listening to this transcription for piano four hands of the main passages of Parsifal conducted by Engelbert Humperdinck, it's a bit why we seem to hear: the furrows left by Parsifal and in our memory. Of course, this transcript originally had another purpose: at a time when the disc does not exist, they were able to play and listen to the opera without needing singers or orchestra, in the privacy a house, a lounge, equipped with a piano. But now that the disk exists, it is very easy to listen to Parsifal and fall back on the piano reduction inevitably has another meaning: like listening to the famous Wagnerian transcriptions of Liszt, Wagner himself is less same is meant that the effect of music on us. It is a Parsifal filtered by the transcription work, by memory, by the piano, the instrument-world. Ana-Marija Markovina and Cord Garben are very well recorded. I put only 4 stars because, regardless of the evocative power of these transcripts is real and touching, something of the magic of their Parsifal escapes and makes you want to return to the opera itself.
