Dreamy, slow-moving and gentle, the D flat Consolation is far from our accepted picture of Liszt, which is often taken from caricatures of his solo recitals: wild hair and eyes, hands flying off the ...
The young Czech pianist Libor Novacek's recording of the second, Italian book of Liszt's Années de Pèlerinage brought him to everyone's attention when it appeared four years ago, and the release of ...
On his latest album Liszt: Via Crucis & Solo Piano Works for Sony Classical, Norwegian pianist Leif Ove Andsnes unveils the often-forgotten side of the famed virtuoso Franz Liszt - the sacred music ...
Nelson Freire's discs for Decca have appeared more or less annually since 2000, and have maintained a consistently high standard. Like last year's set of Chopin's Nocturnes, the latest release marks a ...
Listening to Saskia Giorgini’s fifth release on Pentatone, it’s easy to see how her career has inspired such enthusiasm. She is an artist who meets Liszt on his own terms, sincerely, sympathetically ...
Get the latest entertainment news with our free Culture newsletter The first 12 days of January on BBC Radio 3 are going to feature Mozart, back-to-back. If the programmers were braver, they would ...
From finger-tangling piano études to full-bodied symphonic poems, here are the very best pieces of music by 19th-century Hungarian composer, Franz Liszt. One of the most prominent musical figures in ...
Concerto for Piano and Orchestra No. 1 Valery Gergiev, Conductor, Bass Franz Liszt, Composer Lang Lang, Piano Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra Romance, 'O pourquoi donc' Franz Liszt, Composer Lang Lang, ...
On his latest album Liszt: Via Crucis & Solo Piano Works for Sony Classical, Norwegian pianist Leif Ove Andsnes unveils the often-forgotten side of the famed virtuoso Franz Liszt - the sacred music ...