Volume 19 of series II of the New Liszt Edition contains the transcriptions for piano of Beethoven's Symphonies Nos. 8 and 9 written in 1863. Liszt himself remarked that the symphony transcriptions are not piano reductions but piano scores ('partitions de piano') which do not merely consist of the notes of the works transcribed, but are able to convey the overall effect and spirit of the work. The EMB edition is the only one to follow Liszt's express intention by correcting the transcriptions in...