Matthew Cameron Plays Liszt – Cala Records CACD88045
Available at www.calarecords.com and at Amazon, cduniverse, and other stores
Description: This special all-Liszt disc features original transcriptions of Les Preludes and Hunnenschlacht, a critically acclaimed rendition of the notorious Don Juan Fantasy, and other works by the great Hungarian composer.
Contents of CD:
- 1 – Don Juan Fantasy
- 2 – Hungarian Rhapsody no.13
- 3 – Funerailles
- 4 – Hungarian Rhapsody no.5
- 5 – Hunnenschlacht (arr.Cameron)
- 6 – Valse Oubliee
- 7 – Les Preludes (arr.Cameron)
Total Time: 73 minutes
Label: Cala Records (CACD88045)
REVIEWS
“Highly animated playing…The Don Juan Fantasy exhibits some almost impossibly large arrivals…Clean and impressively fast“
- American Record Guide
“In bravura passages, Cameron equals anyone who champions Liszt“
- Audiophile Audition
“…a boldly romantic pianist with a strong technique and a personality attuned to both the swashbuckling and the sentiment that this repertoire requires . . . the dexterity of his touch . . . the seduction of his rhythmic teasing . . .”
- Fanfare Magazine
“Multiplying and squaring difficulties with Pythagorean zeal…Aristocratic in inspiration …dignity and eloquence“
- Music and Vision Daily
Romantic Favorites for Piano – Arabesque Records z6833
Available at www.arabesquerecordings.com and on AmazonMp3, iTunes, and other stores
Description: His original works and arrangements are known and played around the world. This release includes Cameron’s arrangements of the Adagio from Spartacus by Khachaturian and the Rondo from Mozart’s Eine Kleine Nachtmusic, his own Elegy, Starry Night, and many other popular romantic favorites like Chopin’s Fantasie-Impromptu and Liszt’s La Campanella.
Contents of CD:
- M.Cameron: Starry Night
- F. Liszt: La Campanella
- F.Chopin: Fantasie-Impromptu in C# minor
- F.Chopin: Polonaise no.1 in C# minor
- F.Chopin: Polonaise no.6 in Ab Major “Heroic”
- A.Khachaturian: Adagio from Spartacus (trans. for piano by M. Cameron)
- M.Cameron: Song to the Wind
- M.Cameron: Elegy
- M.Cameron: Scherzino
- M.Cameron: Ave Maria
- M.Cameron: Etude in E Major
- F.Liszt: Hungarian Rhapsody no.17
- F.Schubert: Gretchen am Spinnrade (trans. for piano by F.Liszt)
- F.Schubert: Erlkönig (trans. for piano by F.Liszt)
- F.Liszt: Feux Follets
- F.Liszt: Gnomenreigen
- M.Cameron: Memento
- W.A.Mozart: Rondo from Eine Kleine Nachtmusic (trans for piano by M.Cameron)
Total Time: 76:49
Liszt: Ad nos ad salutarem undam, Fantasy and Fugue on B-A-C-H – 903 Records
Available on Amazon, iTunes, NaxosMusicLibrary, and other digital download stores
Description: Matthew joins keyboard great Anthony Newman in Liszt’s epic piano duet “Ad nos ad salutarem undam.” Also featured is Liszt’s “Fantasy and Fugue on B-A-C-H”
