Clara Schumann, the wife of the great composer Robert Schumann, wrote in her diary on May 25, 1854: Liszt sent Robert today a sonata dedicated to him and several other things with a friendly letter to ...
Born in Georgia in 1987, Khatia Buniatishvili was a prize winner at the Rubinstein piano competition in Israel in 2008, was part of the latest intake of BBC Young Generation Artists, and last year ...
Perhaps because the company has Leslie Howard's complete Liszt edition already in its catalogue, Marc-André Hamelin has previously recorded relatively little Liszt for Hyperion, just a recital disc ...
In this vast, single-movement composition, Franz Liszt achieved a synthesis of symphonic and sonata forms that has never been surpassed for its cogency, scope and imagination. He managed this in a ...
Meany Theater was crammed with piano fans on Wednesday evening, all of them eager to hear the latest keyboard sensation — Yundi Li, the young pianist from Seattle’s sister city in China, Chongqing.
Fantasia and Fugue, 'Ad nos, ad salutarem undam' Garrick Ohlsson, Piano Franz Liszt, Composer Sonata for Piano Franz Liszt, Composer Garrick Ohlsson, Piano Harmonies poétiques et religieuses Franz ...
Franz Liszt (1811-86) falls between the cracks of the modern musical world. He championed opera composers, notably Wagner, but failed to write for the stage himself. His symphonic music has gone out ...
His clean, well-thought-out and thoroughly poised performances of the large-scale Schumann and Liszt selections prove more vulnerable to catalogue competition, although they’re never less than ...
What is musical form? Look at the textbooks, and it seems as if form is do to with the eye rather than the ear. They offer a whole range of types, laid out in neat diagrams like architect’s ...
Music researcher and writer Katy Hamilton chooses her favourite recording of Liszt's Sonata in B minor. When Clara Schumann described Liszt's 1854 Piano Sonata in B minor as 'truly terrible' it ...