Barry Douglas is a pianist in the grand tradition, commanding in technique, and unusual in the breadth of his stylistic sympathies. Conducting his own performances and recordings of Beethoven and ...

The composer and the piano virtuoso were heroic figures of the Romantic era; Franz Liszt was the rock star of his day, inspiring “Lisztomania” among his adoring fans. Liszt made monumental ...

Els Biesemans's newest CD brings multiple pleasures. There are the joys of hearing Liszt's keyboard transcriptions of 12 of the 24 songs of Schubert's Winterreise. There are the songs by Mendelssohn ...

In the days of Strauss waltzes and the musical “grand manner.” every aspiring pianist wanted to be apprenticed to the grey-maned old thunderer, Franz Liszt. Not all of them made it ; one who did was a ...