Liszt - Marche funebre from Donizetti's Dom Sebastien, S402 (Wolfram) 

This transcription, probably better described as a free re-creation, of the Marche funèbre from Donizetti's Dom Sébastien, was written in 1844 for Liszt's Iberian concert tour and published the next year with a dedication to the Queen of Portugal. The piece is more than double the length of Donizetti's-the result of extensive sequential repetition and variation of the original material (the main march melody is repeated in various keys with ever-increasing volume before returning back to C, and the melody sung to "Si quillate a lutto, o trombe" by the basses of the choir is imitated contrapuntally in an excursus of greater complexity than the original). The luxuriously thick textures may not be Liszt at his most subtle, but they form an exciting experience when given a performance as full-blooded as Wolfram's.