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The Liszt Rarities series aims to
offer to both performers and scholars the opportunity to become
acquainted with works of Liszt which are not available in accurate
modern editions. In some cases, it will cover unknown works or those
considered to have been lost and now rediscovered, while in general
it will deal with known works which have not been published in
critical editions for various reasons.
 The
prestigious Neue Liszt-Ausgabe/New Liszt Edition, for
example, declared from the first volume that it would present the
works of Liszt in their final forms, taking into consideration any
“other version” only where these varied significantly from those
taken to be definitive. This means that neither performers nor
scholars are in a position to acquaint themselves with versions of
certain works published in the lifetime of the composer which,
moreover, do not necessarily contain the final form of any
particular musical idea. We shall also publish works which are not
included at all in that edition.Since the collection of works that Liszt revised
in some way comprises almost his entire output, it is clear that
what might be called “hidden music” is in the majority.
“Reworkings”, in effect, were a prime necessity for Liszt
throughout his life. At times, one is dealing merely with a work in
the form of an outline, a brief sketch to preserve a thought on
paper, but often one is dealing with works plain and simple, which
have their own internal coherence, a reason for existence and for
being known.
Publication of this “hidden music” will allow the public to
discover similarities and diversità within the scope of a single
thought, a sort of “twin” for a known work, yet a discovery at the
same time of something entirely unknown. Notwithstanding the
considerable researches made over the last decades by the Liszt
Society of Great britain it is, in fact, both permissibile and
realistic to believe it possibile to find works by Liszt which have
not yet been published or which remain hidden away in some obscure
nineteenth-century edition.
The first
three numbers published by Rugginenti are all first editions (click each number to display an abstract):
Franz Liszt, Variations sur le Carneval de Venise (S700) per
pianoforte. A cura di Nunzio Salemi. Prima edizione. Rugginenti, Milano 2001
Franz Liszt, La lugubre gondola (S199a) per pianoforte. A cura di Mario Angiolelli. Prima
edizione dei manoscritti veneziani. Rugginenti, Milano 2002
Franz Liszt, Concerto sans orchestre (S524a) per pianoforte.
Prima versione per pianoforte solo del Concerto n. 2 in La
maggiore. A cura di Mariateresa Storino. Prima edizione. Rugginenti, Milano 2006
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