Mendelssohn - A Midsummer Night's Dream (trans. Rachmaninov)
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Ji Liu - Piano Reflections: an album guide
1. Mendelssohn - A Midsummer Night's Dream (trans. Rachmaninov)
Take an incredible symphonic piece from Mendelssohn and let someone as wildly inventive and virtuosic as Rachmaninov transcribe it for piano, and you've got nothing short of a firework display. Ji Liu sounds brilliantly excitable here, a fine way to introduce himself on record.
