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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 ...

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 ...

Despax’s approach to the B minor Sonata is impressive – even grandiose – creating a highly personal sound world with tremendous scale and power yet with finesse and subtlety ...

When Liszt first visited Russia in 1842, Vladimir Stasov, the great St Petersburg cultural panjandrum and self-appointed arbiter of taste, wrote that “we had never in our lives heard anything like ...

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.

What is musical form? Look at the textbooks, and it seems as if form is do to with the eye rather than the ear. They offer a whole range of types, laid out in neat diagrams like architect’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 ...