In the world of music, Franz Liszt was something of a Renaissance man. A virtuoso pianist, composer, conductor, teacher, and transcriber, he contributed prolifically to the solo piano repertoire, and ...
On it, Charlotte explores Hungarian composer and virtuoso pianist Franz Liszt's chameleonic and evolving approach to composing – the metamorphosis of his music spanning from his early works inspired ...
The gathering point for the Budapest city tour is the City Park in eastern Pest. We took the M1 subway line, which runs under Andrássy Avenue in the city center, and got off at Széchenyi Bath Station.
On Monday, pianist Yameng Huang makes her Boston recital debut with a program featuring a musical wellspring: Franz Liszt’s 1877 “Les jeux d’eaux à la Villa d’Este” (“The Fountains of the Villa D’Este ...
Franz Liszt at a social gathering in 1885 or ’86 graciously agrees to perform Beethoven’s “Moonlight” Sonata: “He had only played the opening triplets, however, when I felt as if the room no longer ...
At the end of Sunday's performance of "Lisztian Loves," Michael York leaned against the chair on stage and watched André Watts play Franz Liszt's "En reve." The British actor smiled as the American ...
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 ...
In his Friday evening Celebrity Series recital at Jordan Hall, the charismatic young pianist Daniil Trifonov presented two musical takes on transcendence. First came Beethoven’s final piano sonata, a ...
Fernando Laires, who reached the summit of piano virtuosity as a teenager before dedicating his career to performance, promotion and teaching, including at the Eastman School of Music, died last month ...