An Afternoon in Berlin: Giorgi Latsabidze Plays Waghalter Piano Pieces

Giorgi Latsabidze playing pieces by Ignatz Waghalter in Berlin.

Many followers of this site have asked, after listening to Waghalter’s *Remembrance, *whether there are other piano pieces by my grandfather that could be posted. Yes, there are. On a rainy afternoon in December 2014, Giorgi Latsabidze had met me at a Steinway Hall in Berlin to look through Waghalter piano compositions. Giorgi is not only a prodigious sight-reader. He also possesses the ability to perceive, almost instinctively, the emotional ambience of the piece. At a certain point, realizing that these moments should not be lost, I began recording with my cell phone.

The recording began just as Giorgi began playing the *Le Reve d’un Rossignol, *one of a set of three piece (Opus 13) composed by Waghalter in 1908.

The second piece is a piano transcription prepared by Waghalter of thematic material from the overture from the Third Act of his 1923 opera, Sataniel.

La Reve d’un Rossignol

Piano transcription of a theme from the opera Sataniel