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.

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 ...

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 ...

The British-Canadian pianist Angela Hewitt has a refreshing attitude to Liszt. On first hearing, the monumental Piano Sonata in B minor as a teenager she thought “what an awful piece”, a mere vehicle ...

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 ...

Années de pèlerinage année 2: Italie, Movements: Sonetto 47 del Petrarca Franz Liszt, Composer Angela Hewitt, Piano Années de pèlerinage année 2: Italie, Movements: Sonetto 104 del Petrarca Angela ...

Mephisto Waltz No. 1, 'Der Tanz in der Dorfschenke Nelson Goerner, Piano Franz Liszt, Composer The Argentine virtuoso has an innate empathy with the Lisztian idiom and, since he has power and ...

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 ...

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 ...

Clara Schumann, the wife of the great composer Robert Schumann, wrote in her diary on 25 May 1854: Liszt sent Robert today a sonata dedicated to him and several other things with a friendly letter to ...