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Franz Liszt adored opera of all kinds. He honored composers like Verdi, Rossini and countless others by writing virtuosic piano music based on their inspired melodies. Aldo Ciccolini brings Liszt's ...
BUDAPEST (Reuters Life!) - He was the world's first musical superstar, a bigger-than-life personality with a wild mane of hair who seated adoring women around his piano onstage and had his own "mania" ...
Associate Professor Piano Division, Sydney Conservatorium of Music, University of Sydney Dreamy, slow-moving and gentle, the D flat Consolation is far from our accepted picture of Liszt, which is ...
The conductor Susanna Mälkki led a program centered on Ligeti’s Piano Concerto, propelled by the soloist Pierre-Laurent Aimard. By Oussama Zahr A selection from Hyperion’s now-streaming catalog, the ...
When people think of the greatest music superstars, names like Elvis Presley, Jimi Hendrix, and Freddie Mercury often come to mind. But long before the era of rock n roll, one man ignited a global ...
On his latest album Liszt: Via Crucis & Solo Piano Works for Sony Classical, Norwegian pianist Leif Ove Andsnes unveils the often-forgotten side of the famed virtuoso Franz Liszt - the sacred music ...
Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Marc-André Hamelin’s recording features fantasias on Italian opera by Franz Liszt and Sigismond Thalberg, who faced off onstage in 1837. By Zachary ...
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The music of Liszt is not for the faint of heart — or the faint of finger. His adaptation of themes from Bellini's opera "Norma" is a case in point. Marc-Andre Hamelin plays Liszt's "Reminiscences de ...
On his latest album Liszt: Via Crucis & Solo Piano Works for Sony Classical, Norwegian pianist Leif Ove Andsnes unveils the often-forgotten side of the famed virtuoso Franz Liszt - the sacred music ...