Franz Liszt's Piano Sonata in B minor demands the utmost from the performer in musical as well as technical terms. It's a piece that in the best performances can spark a powerful emotional ...

The second piano concerto (this time in A major) didn't take 26 years to complete, but it was hardly a lightning-fast process. Again, Liszt wrote sketches for some of the themes and then put them away ...

One of Liszt’s most monumental works for piano is the “Transcendental Etudes.” Neiman, a 1995 Gilmore Young Artist and longtime acquaintance of Sengupta, suggested the program.

When you think of rock n' roll, Franz Liszt might not be the first name that comes to mind. But the classical pianist, born 200 years ago today, was in many ways the first rock star of all time ...

The women who screamed and swooned for the 19th Century piano virtuoso Franz Liszt set the pattern for fans in our own time – from The Beatles to Justin Bieber.

Whoever finds it beautiful is beyond help, quipped critic Eduard Hanslick upon hearing Franz Liszt’s Sonata in B minor for the first time. Fortunately, posterity did not agree with him.

The bill of fare was a genuine rarity — all 10 pieces of Franz Liszt’s 1849 piano suite “Harmonies poétiques et religieuses.” (In six decades of avid concert-going, I’ve never heard the ...

Franz Liszt changed the course of music, yet his work has fallen out of favour. He's about to get the recognition he deserves, though, as Nicola Christie discovers ...

The Concertos So, that's the solo piano works done for now - it's time to move on to the concertos! Two mammoth monuments in the modern piano repertoire, they've stood the test of time not only ...