# Matti Raekallio: A Night at the Opera

> Matti Raekallio: A Night at the Opera – Matti Raekallio. Ondine ODE 834-2, CD, released November 1994. This CD features Finnish pianist Matti Raekallio with a…

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- **Composer:** Matti Raekallio
- **Work(s):** A Night at the Opera
- **Performers:** Matti Raekallio, piano
- **Label:** Ondine
- **Catalogue no.:** ODE 834-2
- **Format:** CD
- **Release date:** 1 November 1994
- **EAN / UPC:** 0761195083420
- **Tracks:** 10, total 68:11
- **Genres:** Instrumental, Opera

## Track listing

**Ferrucio Busoni**

1. Réminiscences de Don Juan (Mozart: Don Giovanni/transcr. Liszt) (14:36)

**Wilhelm Kempff**

2. Orpheus' Klage (Gluck: Orfeo ed Euridice) (4:49)

**Johannes Brahms**

3. Gavotte (Gluck: Paride ed Elena) (3:56)

**Ferrucio Busoni**

4. Figaro-Fantasie (Mozart: Le nozze di Figaro, transcr. Liszt) (13:20)

**Franz Liszt**

5. O du mein holder Abendstern (Wagner: Tannhäuser) (6:07)
6. Spinnerlied (Wagner: Der fliegende Holländer) (5:45)

**Carl Tausig**

7. Der Ritt der Walküren (Wagner: Die Walküre) (5:05)

**Franz Liszt**

8. Isoldes Liebestod (Wagner: Tristan und Isolde) (7:23)

**Ferrucio Busoni**

9. Sonatina No. 6 (Kammerfantasie über Bizets Carmen) (3:35)

**Vladimir Horowitz**

10. Carmen Variations (3:35)

## About this recording

This CD features Finnish pianist Matti Raekallio with a selection of famous 18th- and 19th-century-opera transcriptions by Liszt, Tausig, Brahms, Busoni, Kempff and Horowitz. The Carmen Variations of the latter had never before been recorded by any pianist other than Vladimir Horowitz himself.

## Features

Booklet with liner notes in English, German, French and Finnish

## Buy or stream

- [Buy](https://Ondine.lnk.to/ODE8342OW)

## Related pages

- [Johannes Brahms (1833-1897)](https://ondine.eyelabel.com/composers/brahms-johannes.md)
- [Ferrucio Busoni (1866-1924)](https://ondine.eyelabel.com/composers/busoni-ferrucio.md)
- [Vladimir Horowitz (1903-1989)](https://ondine.eyelabel.com/composers/horowitz-vladimir.md)
- [Wilhelm Kempff (1895-1991)](https://ondine.eyelabel.com/composers/kempff-wilhelm.md)
- [Franz Liszt (1811-1886)](https://ondine.eyelabel.com/composers/liszt-franz.md)
- [Carl Tausig (1841-1871)](https://ondine.eyelabel.com/composers/tausig-carl.md)
- [Matti Raekallio, piano](https://ondine.eyelabel.com/artists/raekallio-matti.md)

## Also recommended

- [Aarre Merikanto: Piano Concertos Nos. 2 & 3 · Two Studies for Small Orchestra · Two Pieces for Orchestra](https://ondine.eyelabel.com/catalogue/ode-915-2.md): Matti Raekallio, piano · Tampere Philharmonic Orchestra · Tuomas Ollila, conductor (ODE 915-2, 1998)
- [Einar Englund: Piano Concertos Nos. 1 & 2 · Epinikia](https://ondine.eyelabel.com/catalogue/ode-1015-2.md): Matti Raekallio, piano · Tampere Philharmonic Orchestra · Eri Klas, conductor (ODE 1015-2, 2003)
- [Sergei Prokofiev: Romeo and Juliet · Sarcasms · Old Granny's Tales · Four Etudes · Toccata](https://ondine.eyelabel.com/catalogue/ode-898-2.md): Matti Raekallio, piano (ODE 898-2, 1999)