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Franz Liszt’s piano transcriptions of his symphonic poems are more than mere keyboard substitutes. He deploys the orchestral material between two pianos with clarity, sophistication,
This 99-CD set contains (here it comes): six discs of
The thicker the textures, the sweeter the pianism seems to be Leslie Howard’s modus operandi. He can reduce the simplest lyrical utterance of Liszt to
Leslie Howard uncovers another disc’s worth of music either discovered or having become available following completion of the pianist’s 94-disc “complete” Liszt survey for Hyperion.
In 1999 Leslie Howard completed his 94-disc series devoted to Franz Liszt’s complete solo piano output with the proviso that previously unknown or inaccessible material
Given the unevenness of Leslie Howard’s complete Liszt cycle for Hyperion, I approached Volume Two of the piano/orchestral works (licensed from Hyperion by Musical Heritage
For exhaustive thoroughness and scholarship alone, Leslie Howard’s comprehensive cycle of Liszt’s piano works deserves landmark status in the annals of recorded history. Many of
You have to hand it to Leslie Howard for simply getting through 95 CDs, 1377 tracks, 117 hours, and 16,000 pages of music totalling between
