Transcriptions VIII (II/23)

Volume 28 of the New Liszt Edition and the soft paper bound series Liszt: Klavierwerke contains transcriptions of three Weber overtures: Oberon, Der Freischütz and the Jubelouvertüre, followed by two works by Rossini, the Air du Stabat Mater and La Charité, Hummel's Septet in D minor Op. 74, and two Wagner transcriptions: the Tannhäuser overture and O du mein holder Abendstern (Song to the Evening Star). The volume concludes with a piano version of a Beethoven song cycle, to texts by Goethe: 1. Mignon, 2. Mit einem gemalten Bande, 3. Freudvoll und leidvoll, 4. Es war einmal ein König, 5. Wonne der Wehmut, 6. Die Trommel gerühret. All of these transcriptions are faithful to the original scores, and were made by Liszt in the 1840s.

This edition is illustrated with facsimiles of Liszt's manuscripts and is published as a clothbound volume with a preface in German and English and the critical notes in English, while the version for practical purposes is published without critical notes as a soft paper bound volume.