Liszt, Chopin: Six Polish Songs ( Tozer)

Liszt s transcriptions of six of Chopin s Polish songs (also called Six Chants Polonais) are very faithful to their source, and are beautifully adapted for piano. The resulting pieces are not too well known, which is a great pity, as they combine Chopin s melodic gifts with Liszt s pianism at its most elegant and restrained. Occasionally No. 1 (Życzenie, or A Maiden s Wish), No. 2 (Wiosna, or Spring), and No. 5 (Moja pieszczotka, or My Joys) are played as encores, but the rest of the group is rarely heard. I