La Campanella (Italian for “The little bell”) is the nickname given to the third of Franz Liszt‘s six Grandes études de Paganini. It is in the key of G-sharp minor. This piece is a revision of an earlier version from 1838, the Études d’exécution transcendante d’après Paganini. Its melody comes from the final movement of Niccolò Paganini’s Violin Concerto No. 2 in B minor, where the tune was reinforced metaphorically by a “little handbell”. – Khatia Buniatishvili
Liszt by Buniatishvili
Feux Follets
Transcendental Etude No. 5 in B-Flat Major
Dreams of Love
Liebesträume No. 3 in A-Flat Major
Concerto No. 2
Concerto No. 2 in A Major
La Campanella: Other Performance
Alice Sara Ott
