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 ...

Emmanuel Despax’s latest album on Signum Classics features man-sized portions of middle-period Liszt: on disc 1, ‘Après une lecture du Dante’ (more widely known as the Dante Sonata, from the second ...

Pianist Pierre-Laurent Aimard delivered a stunning reading of Liszt's B-Minor Piano Sonata to close a WPAS-sponsored recital at Sixth and I Historic Synagogue on Thursday. This pinnacle of Liszt's ...

"Variations in B flat minor Op. 3" date from 1901-03, the time when Szymanowski studied under Zygmunt Noskowski in Warsaw. Szymanowski dedicated them to to his friend and great pianist, Arthur ...

101 Mendelssohn, F.: Rondo Capriccioso, Op. 14: Andante; Presto / Piano 102 Mendelssohn, F.: Fantasy in F Sharp Minor, Op. 28: Con motoagitato; Allegro con moto ...

Piano legend Andre Watts embraces big music and radiates strength. He was last in Buffalo in 2011 for a solo piano recital, and the chords are still echoing, such a number did Watts do on the Liszt B ...

The piano quintet, in its most common configuration of piano plus string quartet, is an exalted form of chamber music which composers have typically tried just once. Why there are so few examples is a ...