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 ...

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I received several robust responses to my recent CD review of Liszt performances by Jorge Bolet, in which I asserted that in several respects he could not be rivalled. “Oh yeah,” was the tenor of the ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by For his new album, Benjamin Grosvenor delved into historical recordings of the daunting Sonata in B minor. By David Allen How do the great musicians ...

The latest release from the British pianist Daniel Grimwood explores music by Robert and Clara Schumann and Liszt, using an exquisite 1856 piano from Érard’s London factory. Now in the collection of ...

In 1844, Berlin was struck by a cultural fever critics labelled Lisztomania. The German poet Heinrich Heine coined the term ...

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.

Thanks to an incredible series of coincidences, the world has had to wait 152 years to hear the only original work Franz Liszt wrote for two pianos. But judging by the terrific sendoff given Liszt`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 ...

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 ...