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 ...

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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 ...

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 ...

As many other contemporary Romantic composers also Liszt spent a period of his lifetime in Switzerland. From his base in Geneva in the 1830s he undertook voyages all across the country. His work The ...

Nelson Goerner offered us an illuminating recording of the Liszt Sonata back in 2007 (Cascavelle) – a fairly light-fingered account, lucidly argued, scrupulously voiced, with tremendous spring and a ...

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.

Franz Liszt (1811-1886) once said, "My sole ambition as a composer is to hurl my javelin into the infinite space of the future." Indeed, though as both performer and composer he was one of the potent ...

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 ...