| 单词 | Liszt |
| 例句 | Or at best a confused motivation, as with Liszt’s well-intentioned misunderstanding of Romani music. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z Through all the morning classes with Herr Liszt, the rain con-tinued. The Boy in the Striped Pajamas 2006-01-05T00:00:00Z Ever since the film, a lazy identification of Liszt as ‘the first rock star’ has developed. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z But Liszt was a trailblazer, an experimenter, a pacesetter. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z By the time of Liszt and Wagner, the hierarchies were all but gone. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z Through all the morning classes with Herr Liszt, the rain continued. The Boy in the Striped Pajamas 2006-01-05T00:00:00Z Of Liszt’s many gifts to the musical world, arguably his most significant is what he mostly unintentionally taught this man who would eventually become his son-in-law. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z Diminishing and augmenting chords Wagner may have made his own, but they are all over Liszt’s daring, dark harmony. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z In an emotional speech at Hungary’s National Theatre in January 1840, Liszt declared his support for his countrymen’s aspirations for independence. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z By the nineteenth century many of the majority ethnic Magyars in Hungary were dejected by their lack of self-government - though Liszt himself was far from the turmoil for most of his life. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z His hands are fast, almost effortless, even as he goes off into a tangent about the War of the Romantics and how Liszt’s daughter left her husband for Wagner, quel scandale. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z Harry was running his fingers over the piano keys in a dramatic thrumming riff, either Chopin or Liszt—I wasn’t sure which. Confessions of a Murder Suspect 2012-09-24T00:00:00Z The formula that Liszt put to use in his Hungarian Rhapsodies, and which was much imitated thereafter, was simple enough. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z Listening to Faure after Brahms, Liszt, Wagner or Tchaikovsky is comparable to someone spring-cleaning and redecorating a teenage boy’s bedroom. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z Wagner’s debt to Liszt is evident even in Wagner’s most famous chord - so famous, in fact, that it has its own name. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z Notwithstanding his debt to Liszt, Wagner’s sound was, to them, incredibly daring and original. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z This was a piece that was well known to the young Debussy, who revered Liszt as a disciple, and who was honoured to be able to play for him in person in 1888. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z Liszt’s symphonic poems, on the other hand, were a departure from this trend in that they intended to conjure up in music the pictures or the stories themselves. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z Disturbing emotions were conjured up in Liszt’s harmonies; flashy set pieces thrilled and terrified a sensation-seeking public. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z His show-stopping performances encouraged piano builders to adopt iron frames to replace wooden ones, because pianos simply broke under the hammering Liszt gave them on stage. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z Liszt spearheaded a shift from orchestral to illustrative music, using this 1850 painting of Attila the Hun in battle as the basis for his symphonic poem Hunnenschlacht. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z For example, most operas were written to be popular, middle-class entertainments, and artists such as Liszt and Paganini enjoyed rock-star-like fame and popularity in their day. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z Liszt and Wagner idolised Berlioz, which would explain much that happened in the second half of the nineteenth century, a torrid drama that will unfold in the next chapter. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z Indeed, we now know that Liszt and his contemporaries were quite wrong about the provenance of what they called ‘gypsy’ music. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z Liszt’s fifth innovation was a product of the particular political geography into which he was born. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z Franz Liszt, ‘The King of the Piano’, was music's first international star. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z Liszt appears to have been a decent man, very gener-ons and modest, though exceptionally vain. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z But even though he wasn’t brought up in Hungary, Liszt held on to some vestiges of Hungarian patriotism beneath his pan-European facade. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z As an adolescent, after his father’s death, Liszt and his mother moved to Paris, where he adopted French as his ‘first’ language. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z Liszt’s fourth innovation was in the field of orchestral music. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z Liszt was moving away from the idea of music as an abstract entity, something to be listened to attentively for forty or so minutes, towards orchestral music as a representation of something extra-musical. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z The idea behind Liszt’s symphonic poems was to reduce the traditional four-movement symphony as exemplified by Beethoven into one concentrated, shorter piece that would be a musical response to a non-musical artwork. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z In his thirties, Liszt became music’s first international star, embarking on a merry-go-round of European tours, where he was known, and treated, as ‘The King of the Piano’. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z But the first, Liszt’s arrangement for piano of “Pace non trovo,” one of his songs to Petrarch texts, was more than that: wistful yet fresh, altogether elegant. Review: Yunchan Lim, Teenage Piano Star, Arrives in New York 2023-05-11T04:00:00Z One of those, surprisingly, was the opening recital by Jerome Rose, the festival’s founder and director and a Liszt interpreter of considerable repute. Music Review: Brahms in a New Light, Resembling the Weightier Liszt 2011-07-18T22:08:46Z Mendelssohn thought Liszt a wonderful interpreter of others’ music who lacked creativity in his own. Looking at Franz Liszt on His Bicentenary 2011-10-22T04:00:08Z Schumann dedicated the Fantasy in C to Liszt. Five Days, Three Pianists, Three Generations 2019-02-06T05:00:00Z Her way includes an amazing technical ability, as the French-born pianist made clear in the huge Liszt Sonata in B Major that was the blizzard-of-notes centerpiece of the program. Hélène Grimaud proves again that she does music her way 2012-11-02T20:31:04Z He took the opening section so fast that too much detail was lost, but that only made Liszt’s overheated imagination come across as all the more fantastic. For pianist Igor Levit, first the Gilmore award, then a stupendous, cyclonic recital 2018-01-08T05:00:00Z Liszt also pioneered the idea of conductor as performer. The hot Liszt 2010-12-27T21:30:01Z To enjoy Liszt to the fullest, we now and again have to embrace our own inner Second Hungarian Rhapsody. Looking at Franz Liszt on His Bicentenary 2011-10-22T04:00:08Z That Ms. Wang played the Liszt work with such technical authority was no surprise. Music Review: Yuja Wang at Carnegie Hall - Review 2011-10-21T22:23:35Z And the orchestra closed this summer’s festivities on Monday evening in Central Park with a program split between works of Schubert and Liszt. Music Review: In a Rite of Late Summer, Naumburg Concerts Finish 2011-08-23T22:58:52Z This is sometimes forgotten by those who see in Liszt a cinematically Romantic misunderstood genius, his career path ending posthumously in glorious triumph, mirroring his symphonic poem “Tasso: Lamento e Trionfo.” Looking at Franz Liszt on His Bicentenary 2011-10-22T04:00:08Z Its changeable emotions seemed to emerge organically from the five Liszt works on the first half of the program, and its lyrical impulses led sensibly into Chopin’s Sonata No. 2 at the end. Review: Marc-André Hamelin Connects Past and Present in Kaye Playhouse Recital 2015-07-20T04:00:00Z Works by Prokofiev and Liszt also offer a chance to sample Mr. Kissin’s dazzling technique. Classical & Opera Listings for May 15-21 2015-05-14T04:00:00Z Wang has Liszt’s storied star power as a performer: easily able to command a stage and entertainingly showy, yet sensitive and never excessively emotive. Review: An Audition Season Begins at the Philharmonic 2022-02-13T05:00:00Z Self-taught, but encouraged and helped by Liszt, he did not fit easily into either the Wagnerian stream of Romanticism or the more conservative Brahmsian one. Raff: Symphonies Nos 1 ? 11; Suites 2010-07-29T21:50:00Z For Liszt, the idea of playing his 12 “ Transcendental Etudes ” as a set would have seemed absurd. Taking Philip Glass to a place he need not go 2015-07-31T04:00:00Z The Franz Liszt bicentennial is another big anniversary shaping the Ravinia schedule. Ravinia spices up summer 2011-03-09T22:42:00Z Yet like many prodigies Liszt became not just the focus of his family’s attention but also its breadwinner. Looking at Franz Liszt on His Bicentenary 2011-10-22T04:00:08Z Mostly he demonstrated his own concertos, along with dashings of Liszt, Tchaikovsky and Beethoven. Daniil Trifonov, New to Rachmaninoff, but a Bold and Youthful Echo 2015-11-13T05:00:00Z Is there still a prejudice against what’s been perceived as Liszt’s empty-headed bombast? From a Historic Piano Duel to a Finger-Blurring New Album 2020-09-18T04:00:00Z Liszt dons a crinoline and plucks a lyre. Lisztomania: the most embarrassing historical film ever made? 2013-02-06T10:22:00Z To earn a living, he turned himself into a keyboard virtuoso of singular fame and attainment—a late embodiment of the heroic Romantic piano lineage beginning with Franz Liszt. ‘Rachmaninoff Plays Symphonic Dances’ Review: A Master Interprets Himself 2018-09-17T04:00:00Z But that first season he also focused on, of all composers, Liszt. Recalling Pierre Boulez, a Conductor-Composer With an Ear to the Alternative 2016-01-06T05:00:00Z The next night Mr. Tharaud played a standard program at Weill Recital Hall with works by Scarlatti, Ravel, Chopin and Liszt. Critic’s Notebook: Memorization’s Loosening Hold on Concert Tradition 2012-12-31T23:18:16Z The Liszt/Scriabin program tied into the American Liszt Society’s annual Liszt Festival, held this year at Cal State Northridge and focusing on Liszt and Russia. In Vadym Kholodenko, talent and tragedy mix 2016-06-05T04:00:00Z After Mr. Kissin’s Liszt Sonata a piano enthusiast sitting near me asked, “Have you ever heard the piece played so magnificently?” Virtuosos Becoming a Dime a Dozen 2011-08-12T13:09:23Z Liszt was the first to borrow the literary term “recital” to describe a solo concert. Review: A Soprano’s Sudden Solo Act 2017-03-23T04:00:00Z Franz Liszt invented the whole concept of the pianist as star: a virtuoso who takes centre stage for an entire evening, playing in profile to a concentrated, adoring, enraptured audience. The hot Liszt 2010-12-27T21:30:01Z Not heard in public since 1912, it's a hefty work in the late-romantic tradition, though less Brahms than Liszt, with a bit of Tchaikovsky thrown in. BBCCO/Sutherland 2010-05-31T21:30:00Z Liszt is sometimes remembered as a purveyor of pianistic bling, a virtuoso who wrote flamboyant music that was entertaining but rarely profound. Music Review: Liszt, the Chick Magnet, Tickled Ivories and More 2011-02-04T22:29:41Z Franz Liszt, the other towering virtuoso pianist-composer of the 19th century, had many virtues but was almost never as subtle or tasteful as Chopin: He was an enthusiastic, friendly dog, often too eager to please. The Pianist Jeremy Denk on the Joys of Chopin, Our Most Catlike Composer 2017-08-04T04:00:00Z Berlioz progressed from not entirely disinterested support of Liszt’s creative efforts to outright condemnation. Looking at Franz Liszt on His Bicentenary 2011-10-22T04:00:08Z The first of these centred around the love-lives of the great Romantic composers Schumann, Chopin and Liszt, with actors reading from their letters and diaries. Lucy Parham: My voyage round Debussy 2013-06-21T15:49:43Z The Liszt set was quite good, if lacking that last ounce of explosive force and borderline vulgarity one hears from the finest Liszt players. British pianist Leon McCawley shines in program at the Phillips You don’t get the laid-bare feeling of Schubert, Beethoven’s idealism, Liszt’s philosophical questing, or Schumann’s palpitating, specific love for his wife, Clara. The Pianist Jeremy Denk on the Joys of Chopin, Our Most Catlike Composer 2017-08-04T04:00:00Z For a long encore, he improvised, having explained to his audience that he regrets the decline of this honorable practice, at which Liszt, Beethoven and Mozart excelled. Music Review: Improvisation, as Well as Intensity 2011-07-21T21:52:10Z There are only a few examples of Liszt rambling. From a Historic Piano Duel to a Finger-Blurring New Album 2020-09-18T04:00:00Z Then “Liebeslied” was Kreisler transcribed by Rachmaninoff, in this virtuoso role following the footsteps of somebody like Liszt. At 150, Rachmaninoff and His Music Are ‘Here to Stay’ 2023-04-03T04:00:00Z But the pianist Stewart Goodyear intriguingly locates in all of them — as well as in two pieces by Goodyear himself, inspired by his Trinidadian roots — the fundamental influence of Liszt. 5 Classical Music Albums to Hear Right Now 2021-11-23T05:00:00Z His performance captured the mystical flights and teeming intensity of Liszt’s visionary work. Music Review: Cyprien Katsaris at the International Keyboard Festival 2012-07-17T22:20:52Z And however opposed Liszt and Brahms might have been in life, surely Brahms would have admired the glorious Liszt song transcriptions played here, “Romance Oubliée” and “Die Zelle.” Music Review: Steven Isserlis at the 92nd Street Y 2013-01-28T22:31:28Z But the pianism in the Franck was ecstatic, and the fireworks of the 10th Liszt Étude sounded more playful than stressful. Composer Stephen Hough, accomplished on paper and in the concert hall 2016-09-26T04:00:00Z In the Mozart, Schumann and Liszt, Mr. Lewis put a premium on textural clarity. Music Review: English Pianist Paul Lewis at the Metropolitan Museum of Art 2010-04-25T22:04:00Z But there’s a long, still-misunderstood heritage of piano arrangements of orchestral and operatic works, pioneered by Liszt and championed a century later by Vladimir Horowitz. Extraordinary Beethoven, and an Adventurous Streak 2021-05-21T04:00:00Z As he began his Weimar period, Liszt repudiated most of his early works. Looking at Franz Liszt on His Bicentenary 2011-10-22T04:00:08Z Being both composer and performer is a big help to playing the work of other musical multi-taskers - like 19th-century Hungarian composer and piano superstar Franz Liszt. Pianist Hamelin breathes new life into "dead" composers 2013-11-14T08:05:00Z Recalled for an encore, Mr. Isserlis said that one of the few things Brahms and Liszt had in common was their love of Schubert. Music Review: Steven Isserlis at the 92nd Street Y 2013-01-28T22:31:28Z It seems he's still making his case for the piece, for it's part of his Meany Hall debut tonight, along with items by Bach, Liszt and Ives. Denk, a Seattle favorite, returns 2010-03-30T18:17:00Z He made Liszt seem, at least in passing, as if he were as deep and revolutionary a thinker as Beethoven. Music Review: A Romeo Who Struts, A Juliet Who Glitters 2010-10-13T21:49:00Z Cerha’s musical language may be more modern than Liszt’s, but not by much. Marino Formenti, Fully Engaged, at NY Phil Biennial 2014-06-06T04:00:00Z Not an empty seat remained on Wednesday for the late-night recital at the Kaplan Penthouse by the probing Italian pianist Marino Formenti, titled “Liszt Inspections,” a program alternating visionary Liszt works with modernist contemporary scores. Matthias Pintscher Conducts in the NY Phil Biennial 2014-06-08T04:00:00Z Liszt – who is also now dead – climbs into a heavenly spaceship, flies back to earth and laser-explodes Zombie Vampire Hitler Wagner. Lisztomania: the most embarrassing historical film ever made? 2013-02-06T10:22:00Z A lifelong Liszt devotee, Hamelin is a fine interpreter of his work, combining virtuosity with passion and intellectual refinement. Prom 54: Marc-Andr? Hamelin ? review 2011-08-25T14:39:20Z Grove Music Online offers the clinical assessment that Loewe was an essentially conservative figure, untouched by the innovations of radical, slightly younger contemporaries like Schumann, Chopin and Liszt. Celebrating an 18th-Century Composer, Carl Loewe 2012-02-24T21:05:38Z But Liszt would habitually programme music by other composers in his concerts. The hot Liszt 2010-12-27T21:30:01Z The director also makes distinctive use of music, filling the soundtrack with classical pieces—orchestrations of compositions by Bach, Schubert, Schumann, Liszt, Brahms. My Favorite Halloween Movie 2015-10-30T04:00:00Z Liszt, one of the most innovative composer-pianists of the 19th century, pioneered the modern solo recital format and performed both his own works and those by other musicians during his flamboyant concerts. Music Review: Adam Gyorgy at Carnegie Hall - Review 2011-11-14T22:02:25Z This was known as “preluding,” and Liszt spoke of it as a technique to be learned by any aspiring pianist. 100 Years After Debussy’s Death, He Remains the First ‘Modern’ Composer 2018-03-02T05:00:00Z Most pianists are content to perform just one Liszt concerto in an evening, but not the redoubtable Hough. Cos? fan tutte; Dream Hunter; Commotio; Stephen Hough, LPO/Alsop ? review 2012-02-12T00:06:08Z It opened with Wagner's Faust Overture and ended with Liszt's Faust Symphony, both inspired by Goethe's poetic drama. LPO/Jurowski 2010-05-03T21:45:00Z But if these versions, like Liszt’s Beethoven transcriptions, now seem obsolete, obsolescence is hardly a lethal flaw in classical music. Rearranging Ideas About Alternate Arrangements 2010-06-11T14:18:00Z His Liszt, combining weight with smoothness, was simply formidable. Betrand Chamayou ? review 2011-01-04T23:30:00Z His latest recording, “Liszt: The Piano of Tomorrow,” eloquently illustrates that point of view. CD reviews: Breathtaking moments in new song cycle ‘let me tell you’ 2016-02-18T05:00:00Z Liszt is the figure of utmost importance in piano world. After deaths of his daughters, ages 1 and 5, pianist Vadym Kholodenko returns to the stage 2016-06-02T04:00:00Z In the 19th century when the modern design of the piano fully emerged and you had people like Liszt ... and it was really all about showing off – the same with the violin and Paganini. Gabriel Prokofiev gets the Proms into the groove 2011-07-28T20:29:01Z At Carnegie Hall on Wednesday evening, the pianist Jean-Yves Thibaudet offered elegant interpretations of a range of Liszt pieces, part of Carnegie’s celebration of the composer’s bicentennial this year. Music Review: Liszt, the Chick Magnet, Tickled Ivories and More 2011-02-04T22:29:41Z Liszt was also, Mr. Walker emphasized, a festival organizer and an important writer of essays, program notes and criticism. Critic?s Notebook: A Renaissance Man Before the Renaissance 2011-08-23T12:00:00Z Bartók's stark First Piano Concerto, meanwhile, with its self-conscious avoidance of lyricism, is, in some respects, as ground-breaking a work as the Liszt. Prom 15: LPO/Jurowski ? review 2011-07-27T09:54:07Z Yet for all the grandstanding, for all the public posing as patriot, paramour or priest, Liszt was not the fraud he so easily could have been. Looking at Franz Liszt on His Bicentenary 2011-10-22T04:00:08Z It was only when Liszt, partly out of showmanship, began playing everything, including monumental Beethoven sonatas, from memory that the mystique took hold. Critic’s Notebook: Memorization’s Loosening Hold on Concert Tradition 2012-12-31T23:18:16Z The subject of François-Xavier Roth's concert with the London Symphony Orchestra was the relationship between Liszt and Berlioz. LSO/Roth ? review 2011-01-09T21:45:00Z Only in the late 1840s did Liszt give up his concert tours, settle down as Kapellmeister in Weimar and belatedly turn himself from great pianist into great composer. Looking at Franz Liszt on His Bicentenary 2011-10-22T04:00:08Z Liszt loved it, whereas Debussy said he couldn’t understand why it was continually broken up by “marshal trumpet blasts, usually announcing nothing more than a languishing little cantabile.” ‘Celebrate Asia’ program combines best of East, West 2014-03-22T17:14:28Z Born in 1819, she became one of the 19th century’s foremost piano virtuosos — in the same league as her contemporary Franz Liszt, and over a much longer stretch, remaining active for more than six decades. Clara Schumann, Music’s Unsung Renaissance Woman 2019-08-28T04:00:00Z They began with nine works that can be heard on their recent recording of lieder by Liszt, whose roughly 90 songs remain somewhat overlooked. Two Singers Reveal the Core of Art Song, on Stages Big and Small 2021-10-11T04:00:00Z But whereas no one really doubts the greatness of Wagner or Verdi, and Chopin seems universally beloved, things are not so straightforward with Liszt. Looking at Franz Liszt on His Bicentenary 2011-10-22T04:00:08Z Liszt, however, created the concept that the music itself could tell the story. What pop music owes to the classical masters 2013-01-24T18:54:18Z In 2017, he deservedly claimed the limelight in a recital at Meany Center, playing Mozart, Liszt and Schumann. Possibly ‘the most remarkable young pianist of our time’? Benjamin Grosvenor is back in Seattle 2018-06-22T04:00:00Z You could imagine Liszt listening and thinking: “Why not? Go for it.” Marino Formenti, Fully Engaged, at NY Phil Biennial 2014-06-06T04:00:00Z “Liszt I’d like to have met,” a musical biographer once told me. Looking at Franz Liszt on His Bicentenary 2011-10-22T04:00:08Z As a composer, Liszt was often an iconoclastic adventurer, especially in works with fluid, diaphanous textures and sounds that anticipated Impressionism. Critic?s Notebook: A Renaissance Man Before the Renaissance 2011-08-23T12:00:00Z Mr. Hough used it as an inspired warm-up to the Liszt. Music Review: A Beethoven Warm-Up and a Liszt Workout 2010-11-21T22:53:00Z Not that there was anything that daring about the program: Schubert, Liszt, Mussorgsky — the usual fare. Review: Behzod Abduraimov, at People’s Symphony, Gives Each Note Its Due 2015-12-06T05:00:00Z “People will not speak of me in 100 years, but they will still be talking about Liszt. That’s the reality.” Aldo Ciccolini Dies at 89; Pianist Interpreted Satie 2015-02-03T05:00:00Z Liszt, of course, is the ultimate in rhapsodic Romanticism. Music Review: Romantics Meet (Composer and Pianist), and Sparks Fly 2011-03-10T22:36:28Z The most unusual concert in the series will be a newly added portrait-recital, "Lisztian Loves," about the women in Liszt's life, with pianist Watts and actor Michael York, July 20. Ravinia spices up summer 2011-03-09T22:42:00Z The vast majority of the 19th century's most important conductors were also its composers: Mendelssohn, who revived Bach's St Matthew Passion for audiences in Leipzig, Berlioz, Weber, Liszt, and, above all, Wagner. Mystery of the maestros: what are conductors for? 2012-06-01T21:55:13Z The performances abounded in scintillating grace, wondrous shadings, even touches of impetuousness — all the qualities that distinguish his Chopin, Liszt and Schumann. Two Pianists Test the Meaning of Virtuosity 2020-03-04T05:00:00Z Reubke, who died at the age of 24, studied with Liszt, and his Sonata owes much to the latter's experiments with cyclic form. RLPO/Vasily Petrenko – review 2012-07-08T14:46:27Z Liszt's Faust Symphony is the main event but also on the bill are Kodály's Galanta Dances and Bartók's First Piano Concerto. TV highlights 29/07/11: BBC Proms 2011 2011-07-29T07:00:01Z Liszt had accepted the sword with what he must have considered a safe enough promise, “to shed his last drop of blood for the freedom of his native land.” Looking at Franz Liszt on His Bicentenary 2011-10-22T04:00:08Z This intriguing program found musical resonances among works by Janacek, Liszt, Poulenc, Ravel and Mr. Adès. Music Review | Anthony Marwood, Steven Isserlis and Thomas Ad?s: At Zankel Hall, Subduing the Ravel Trio 2010-03-21T20:59:00Z The program, should anyone be listening, offers works by Scriabin, Liszt’s Sonata in B minor and Prokofiev’s Sonata No. 6, and the performances are almost sure to be wonderful. The New Season: Tchaikovsky, Dress Codes, And 3-D Opera 2011-09-16T19:50:18Z The latter said the young Malkovich, who dressed in an array of purples and long scarves, was a cross between Oscar Wilde and Franz Liszt. John Malkovich: 'I had a lot of violence growing up, but so what?' 2020-05-21T04:00:00Z Before Liszt, pianists would perform perhaps just one item on a mixed bill of concert programmes. The hot Liszt 2010-12-27T21:30:01Z Another was Saint-Saëns’s Janus-like creative identity: he helped to revive interest in Bach and Mozart through performance and emulation, but he also gave premieres of Liszt’s works and borrowed from them freely. Critic’s Notebook: A Bard Music Festival Weekend of Saint-Saëns 2012-08-13T21:46:15Z As ever, you could describe much of what he did in an opening volley of Chopin and Liszt pieces as extravagant and fussy. Music Review: Lang Lang International Music Foundation Gala at Carnegie 2013-06-04T22:07:16Z One expected him to be equally successful with both composers, but on this showing, he's more at ease with Liszt than with Berlioz. LSO/Roth ? review 2011-01-09T21:45:00Z Immediately after my former teacher uttered his animal analogy, he couldn’t resist a second comparison: “Liszt was not nearly as ambitious.” The Pianist Jeremy Denk on the Joys of Chopin, Our Most Catlike Composer 2017-08-04T04:00:00Z He followed that with bang-on responses Franz Liszt, dengue fever, violin, Rachmaninoff and albinism, then landed on a Daily Double in the "Cambridge" category. Computer crushes the competition on `Jeopardy!' 2011-02-16T13:59:07Z Lee based “The Music There” on music by Stevie Nicks, while Jones fashioned Aretha Franklin’s “Respect” and “A Natural Woman” into the equivalent of a 21st-century Liszt operatic fantasy for string quartet. Perspective | A quartet named Ethel brings fresh ideas to town 2018-03-05T05:00:00Z And the extent to which Liszt pointed the way to the future came through thrillingly in this revelatory program, played with sensitivity and fervor. Marino Formenti, Fully Engaged, at NY Phil Biennial 2014-06-06T04:00:00Z Thoughts about Liszt’s influence were in the air. In Vadym Kholodenko, talent and tragedy mix 2016-06-05T04:00:00Z In the 19th century, piano makers competed to make special instruments for Hungarian virtuoso Franz Liszt, the world's first piano superstar. Hungarian space-age piano scales new heights, creator says 2015-01-20T05:00:00Z Although Liszt never really lived in the city, he rented three modest rooms that now form the museum. The hot Liszt 2010-12-27T21:30:01Z A late Romantic in the mold of Liszt and Wagner, Bartók became a modernist through his study both of pre-tonal folk music from Hungary and other countries, and of post-tonal incorporation of dissonance. CD reviews: Bartók by heart, for the heart 2016-11-10T05:00:00Z But although Liszt haunts “Inferno,” the craft is Adès’s: hallmarks like full-bodied, divisi strings; excess at both ends of the dynamic spectrum; and meter that changes by the measure. Review: Thomas Adès Charts a Journey Through Hell and Heaven 2022-04-29T04:00:00Z Nobody knows Liszt like Howard, and it shows in his performances of authentic virtuosity and epic range. The hot Liszt 2010-12-27T21:30:01Z He daringly chose Liszt’s deliriously difficult “Transcendental Études” for his semifinal round, and in the finals played Rachmaninoff’s classic Third Concerto with a power and — more important — poised poetry that had a standard sounding fresh. Best Classical Music Performances of 2022 2022-12-01T05:00:00Z Also performed were works by Liszt, Sibelius and Paganini, the latter featuring local violin soloist Benjamin Schmid. TV highlights: 08/07/2011 2011-07-07T20:59:01Z On Thursday, Ms. Davidsen didn’t appear to shrink her voice, treating the room as if it were the Met, while Mr. Baillieu matched her with the grandeur of Liszt’s Wagner transcriptions. The Met Opera’s Newest Star Returns, on the Small Screen 2020-08-28T04:00:00Z Kissin let himself in gently with Ricordanza, one of the Transcendental Studies, with which Liszt expanded the possibilities of piano writing further than any of his predecessors. Evgeny Kissin ? review 2011-02-15T19:10:04Z A few years back he recorded both the Liszt concertos with Andrew Litton conducting the Bergen Philharmonic in a white heat that sounded improvised on the spot. Stephen Hough twists the kaleidoscope of Edvard Grieg’s moods 2015-08-13T04:00:00Z This precociously mature pianist, still in his teens, played Liszt’s deliriously difficult “Transcendental Études” on the way to becoming the youngest-ever winner of the Van Cliburn International Piano Competition last year. Carnegie Hall’s New Season: What We Want to Hear 2023-02-28T05:00:00Z Ravel’s “La Valse” and Liszt’s First Piano Concerto are dazzlers, and Dvorak’s Eighth Symphony is a font of graceful melodies. Review: The Philadelphia Orchestra Returns, With Force 2022-09-30T04:00:00Z Other possibilities: simultaneously released films about Liszt and Chopin, Brahms and Schumann, Verdi and Wagner, Ravel and Debussy. Why I give a hoot for competing dead jazz musician movies 2016-05-25T04:00:00Z In the days before recordings, familiarity with the operas of the day was sustained through such piano transcriptions, a practice Liszt elevated into recital showpieces with elaborate riffs on favourite moments all woven together. Thomas Ad?s 2010-04-29T20:45:00Z Mr. Katsaris gave some fascinating performances here, especially in his Liszt selections, played in honor of the 200th anniversary of that composer’s birth. Music Review: Improvisation, as Well as Intensity 2011-07-21T21:52:10Z Liszt's Fantasia and Fugue on B.A.C.H. blew the roof off as it too often does. The proof is in: The pipe organ is still the king of instruments 2016-04-12T04:00:00Z The largest suite is on the top floor and dedicated to the Hungarian composer Franz Liszt with a sunroom wall with views of the city. In Budapest, a Hotel of a Different Note 2015-01-16T05:00:00Z The coherence of his conception of the evening extended to the encore: the actual ending of “Tristan,” the “Liebestod,” in Liszt’s transcription. Review: A Pianist Makes Carnegie Hall His Home 2022-01-14T05:00:00Z Building to a mighty climax in a grand account of Liszt’s sprawling sonata, Levit projected a kind of burning patience through the evening. Review: A Pianist Makes Carnegie Hall His Home 2022-01-14T05:00:00Z From previous collections, there will be work set to Webern, Handel and Liszt — all played live. Dance Listings for June 13-19 2014-06-12T04:00:00Z Liszt, a forward-thinking composer who experimented with harmony and form, also pioneered the modern solo recital format. Music Review: Liszt, the Chick Magnet, Tickled Ivories and More 2011-02-04T22:29:41Z Now and then, in the Liszt songs and elsewhere, his voice had its rough patches. Two Singers Reveal the Core of Art Song, on Stages Big and Small 2021-10-11T04:00:00Z That led to the 19th and last of Liszt’s Hungarian rhapsodies. In Vadym Kholodenko, talent and tragedy mix 2016-06-05T04:00:00Z The first half of the program ended with Liszt’s Hungarian Rhapsody No. 6 in D flat, which the pianist and scholar Charles Rosen once described as “the least respectable side of Liszt.” Music Review: Steven Lin Shows His Confidence in Recital 2014-02-12T22:13:35Z Liszt showed that here was an exhilarating Beethoven masterpiece. Critic?s Notebook: A Renaissance Man Before the Renaissance 2011-08-23T12:00:00Z After hearing Liszt perform the sonata in 1836, Berlioz wrote of Liszt’s impressive fidelity to the text in a review quoted in the first volume of Mr. Walker’s biography. Critic?s Notebook: A Renaissance Man Before the Renaissance 2011-08-23T12:00:00Z More recently he has also recorded excellent discs of work by mainstream composers like Haydn, Schumann, Chopin and Liszt. King of Virtuosos Is Weary Of His Crown 2011-07-22T15:32:31Z Through the various versions of Liszt’s numerous works we can hear his learning process. Looking at Franz Liszt on His Bicentenary 2011-10-22T04:00:08Z His two piano concertos deploy the sectional single-movement form that Liszt favoured. Lyapunov: Piano Concertos Nos 1 & 2; Rhapsody on Ukrainian Themes ? review 2011-01-13T21:30:00Z With an idiosyncratic mix of sonatas by Mozart, Beethoven and Scriabin, two short pieces by Granados and a Liszt showpiece, the 24-year-old Grosvenor summoned the likes of the great Vladimir Horowitz. At 24, Benjamin Grosvenor delivers virtuosity beyond his years. If you haven't heard him, hear him now 2017-05-01T04:00:00Z My own interest in Liszt has always been sustained by his sometimes bizarre balancing act between fulfillment and insufficiency, between genius and empty gesture. Looking at Franz Liszt on His Bicentenary 2011-10-22T04:00:08Z Liszt was a prolific arranger of the music of his predecessors, including Bach, in an era when piano transcriptions were used to disseminate a variety of scores before the existence of recorded music. Music Review: Garrick Ohlsson Celebrates a Bicentennial at 92nd Street Y 2012-01-24T23:27:22Z Mr. Watts was an old-world virtuoso — his idol was the composer and showman Franz Liszt — with a knack for electricity and emotion. André Watts, Pioneering Piano Virtuoso, Dies at 77 2023-07-14T04:00:00Z Franz Liszt taught her piano, and Ivan Turgenev adored her. 5 Classical Music Albums You Can Listen to Right Now 2022-09-29T04:00:00Z Franck is usually dubbed a Wagnerian, and the symphony's structure, subjecting its thematic material to continuous development over three movements, owes much to Liszt. LPO/N?zet-S?guin ? review 2011-01-25T18:55:00Z The unfinished Liszt opera — written largely in shorthand, with only one act completed — languished in a Weimar archive for nearly 170 years. Listen to the First Glimpse of a Long-Lost Liszt Opera 2017-03-06T05:00:00Z "A rehabilitation of Liszt is overdue," he went on, and set about doing exactly that. Best of Brendel: the pianist on YouTube 2010-10-16T23:15:00Z But he does have a new creation — the choreography for the Ensemble for the Romantic Century’s adaptation of the horror classic, set to a score by Liszt, Schubert and Bach. What’s New in NYC Theater 2017-12-14T05:00:00Z Three Liszt selections, including his arrangement of the Wagner “Liebestod” and the Schumann “Novelette Op. 21, No. 8,” were similarly evocative, but the effect was dulled, somehow, by the craziness elsewhere. A pianist with a penchant for the unusual 2017-01-23T05:00:00Z But Liszt had chosen deliberately: His recitals would offer not just an arbitrary mixture of scores but also, as with literary readings, a program with larger thematic threads, musical resonances and even personal significance. Two Pianists, Two Recitals, Two Deeply Personal Statements 2021-12-20T05:00:00Z It’s a culmination of the tradition of the piano concerto — from Mozart through Beethoven, Brahms, Liszt and Tchaikovsky — and its rare appearances are thrilling events for its partisans. Best Classical Music Performances of 2022 2022-12-01T05:00:00Z On Sunday, the second movement lost some of its spark and began to drag until its final release into the choral music with which Liszt replaced “Paradiso” altogether. Review | Noseda and the NSO rise to ‘Unexpected’ challenge at Carnegie Hall 2019-05-20T04:00:00Z Before Franz Liszt, it was rare for pianists to do solo programs. Two Pianists, Two Recitals, Two Deeply Personal Statements 2021-12-20T05:00:00Z An excerpt from a largely forgotten Italian opera that Liszt began in 1849 will, belatedly, get its premiere this summer. Listen to the First Glimpse of a Long-Lost Liszt Opera 2017-03-06T05:00:00Z Every note of the symphonies is in the Liszt works.” Critic?s Notebook: A Renaissance Man Before the Renaissance 2011-08-23T12:00:00Z Yet this, too, is somewhat in keeping with the tradition of the lullaby – the berceuses by established composers such as Liszt and Chopin were often written in a flat key. Hail, Hail, Rock'n'Roll 2010-05-20T21:29:00Z The further contrast of quintessentially romantic Liszt followed two attractive world premieres. Review: At SSO, music both new and attractive 2011-06-03T18:20:54Z Here was a fascinating program of 24 diverse études, not just by the obvious choices, Chopin and Liszt, but by Debussy, Rachmaninoff, Scriabin, Bartok, Messiaen and Ligeti. Emboldened Orchestras Embracing the New Music 2011-12-09T17:01:08Z "He's going to show off now – listen to this," Roocroft remarked before he swung into Liszt in Hungarian national mode. Roocroft/Martineau ? review 2011-03-04T18:05:51Z This year’s festival began on Monday with a recital featuring two rising singers in classics of the song repertory by Mahler, Liszt and Poulenc. Music Review: Elliot Madore and Megan Hart in Song Continues Recital - Review 2012-01-17T23:32:45Z It’s the sheer size and staggeringly variable quality of Liszt’s output that ultimately makes it so mesmerizing. Looking at Franz Liszt on His Bicentenary 2011-10-22T04:00:08Z Surrounding Scriabin with other radicals — Liszt, Debussy, Stockhausen — would be one way to do that. Garrick Ohlsson Sets Scriabin in His Russian Context 2015-02-02T05:00:00Z That work influenced the French Impressionist composers with its evocation of rippling water, an example of Liszt’s painterly gifts. Music Review: Liszt, the Chick Magnet, Tickled Ivories and More 2011-02-04T22:29:41Z In the former, Levit treated the “The Solemn March to the Holy Grail from ‘Parsifal’” transcription as though Liszt wrote it for a piano made of sonorous bells. For pianist Igor Levit, first the Gilmore award, then a stupendous, cyclonic recital 2018-01-08T05:00:00Z Composers like Chopin and Liszt showed how to write études that, while pushing the boundaries of piano technique, were also musically wondrous pieces. Music Review: Nicolas Hodges, Pianist, at Zankel Hall 2013-01-23T21:55:16Z He is at the root of the harmonic explosions of the 20th century; Liszt and Wagner really started it all. From a Historic Piano Duel to a Finger-Blurring New Album 2020-09-18T04:00:00Z But at least he is always Liszt, while most composers of any era aren’t anything much at all. Looking at Franz Liszt on His Bicentenary 2011-10-22T04:00:08Z There were splendid singers and a guitarist, and pianist Carlos Cesar Rodriguez, the work’s music director, fully transformed the atmosphere with a fluid but light touch, in selections from Brahms and Liszt. The intimacy of dance, brought even closer 2016-11-13T05:00:00Z And for all his worldly success, Liszt didn’t have a particularly easy ride. Looking at Franz Liszt on His Bicentenary 2011-10-22T04:00:08Z It is, in other words, not your typical Liszt. Liszt’s ‘Harmonies,’ More Intimate Than Ever 2019-09-20T04:00:00Z This was noticeable in works by Liszt, including “Un Sospiro” from the Three Concert Études and the “Rigoletto” Concert Paraphrase, both marred by stilted phrasing, as was the rendition of Beethoven’s “Tempest” Sonata. Music Review: Nobuyuki Tsujii in Piano Debut at Carnegie Hall - Review 2011-11-13T22:43:26Z He brought formidable virtuosity to Scriabin and Liszt. How Should a Musician Make a Debut? Try Going Low-Key 2017-02-10T05:00:00Z This led into a group of three Liszt songs, which Mr. Bostridge performed with a beguiling mix of simplicity and flair. Music Review: Ian Bostridge and Thomas Ad?s at Carnegie Hall - Review 2011-11-29T23:23:51Z But Liszt’s “Two Legends” — exquisitely wrought proto- Impressionist pieces of great finesse — suffered the most. The problem with a pianist who plays loudly or softly but not in between 2016-03-27T04:00:00Z Liszt threw down a gauntlet with 19 straight bars of trills in a piece already rife with difficulty, and Trifonov kept it sparking and spinning. Review: The Philadelphia Orchestra Returns, With Force 2022-09-30T04:00:00Z Concert pianists never need an excuse to program plenty of Liszt, that titan of the keyboard who composed some of the showiest — and most difficult — music ever written for the piano. Garrick Ohlsson performs a superb night of Liszt in Seattle 2012-03-08T17:57:04Z For the recital’s second half, Liszt looked at Wagner and Busoni at Liszt. For pianist Igor Levit, first the Gilmore award, then a stupendous, cyclonic recital 2018-01-08T05:00:00Z Liszt married the dexterity of the first to the flamboyance of the second and created a new style. The hot Liszt 2010-12-27T21:30:01Z "It's not like playing Liszt, but it's tricky," he explained. 'The Peanuts Movie': Jazz pianist David Benoit provides musical rhythm 2015-11-23T05:00:00Z In giving the lieder room to breathe, he gave them a chance to grow, Liszt a chance to explain himself at the scale he thought proper, and Kaufmann clearance to soar. Review | At the Kennedy Center, songs you haven’t heard and cellphones you wish you hadn’t 2021-10-18T04:00:00Z But he emerged from his performance of Liszt’s Piano Concerto No. 1 a bona fide star. André Watts, Pioneering Piano Virtuoso, Dies at 77 2023-07-14T04:00:00Z He is eager to delve into composers he has yet to perform publicly, like Bach and Debussy, as well as concertos by Bartok and Liszt. Evgeny Kissin Will Indulge His Love of Yiddish Poetry at Carnegie Hall 2015-12-13T05:00:00Z Despite the familiarity of his name, Liszt remains one of the great unknowns of 19th-century music, with swathes of his enormous output off-limits to performers and audiences. Evgeny Kissin ? review 2011-02-15T19:10:04Z The “Liebestod” from “Tristan und Isolde,” performed by Ms. Li in Liszt’s transcription, is made to illustrate the brief sexual reunification of Toscanini and Mainardi, complete with projected images of gushing fountains. Review: In ‘Maestro,’ a Downbeat Look at the Great Toscanini 2019-01-15T05:00:00Z In his day Liszt played not just his own dazzling piano music, but works of masters who preceded him, especially Beethoven and Schubert, and by his contemporaries. Music Review | Thomas Ad?s: At Carnegie Hall, Composer Is Keyboard Virtuoso Too 2010-03-29T04:58:00Z "They are the two most important composers of piano music," Lugansky says of Chopin and Liszt. The strong and the subtle: Lugansky at UW 2011-11-09T21:23:04Z Rana called it as revolutionary as concertos by Liszt and Robert Schumann, both of which it predates by over a decade. Clara Schumann and Florence Price Get Their Due at Carnegie Hall 2022-10-27T04:00:00Z As a composer, beyond his works for piano, Liszt was the inventor of the orchestral tone poem and an inspired songwriter, and he produced a body of sublime sacred choral works. Critic?s Notebook: A Renaissance Man Before the Renaissance 2011-08-23T12:00:00Z Mozart, in his day, was “entertainment”; Beethoven was “entertainment”; Liszt and Chopin certainly were; and even Wagner was. Slickness as transgression: Piano duo pushes boundaries 2016-10-31T04:00:00Z Liszt was an extrovert and the great revolutionary of the piano. The strong and the subtle: Lugansky at UW 2011-11-09T21:23:04Z Or possibly he misheard someone describing Liszt as Europe's biggest pianist. Lisztomania: the most embarrassing historical film ever made? 2013-02-06T10:22:00Z He was drawn to the piano, he said, because he had grown up hearing Chopin and Liszt on recordings that his mother had purchased when she was pregnant. A 19-Year-Old Pianist Electrifies Audiences. But He’s Unimpressed. 2023-05-09T04:00:00Z Liszt, who read widely during this period, prefaced the works with literary quotations. Music Review: Martin Helmchen at the Frick Collection - Review 2011-11-03T00:11:37Z Liszt, at the height of his touring-virtuoso period, took the trappings of the superstar to another dimension. Critic’s Notebook: Liberace Examined, as a Piano Player 2013-05-27T21:40:53Z His early influences were German — Johannes Brahms, Robert Schumann and Richard Strauss — and he found a kindred spirit in Franz Liszt, whose Hungarian Rhapsodies were inflected with Gypsy rhythms and melodies. Book review: Musician Béla Bartók was pride of two nations 2015-06-25T04:00:00Z Like the 1991 movie “Impromptu,” which amusedly observed the romantic furor surrounding the composers Liszt and Chopin, “Beloved Sisters” portrays the European culture heroes of yesteryear as the pop stars of their time. ‘Beloved Sisters,’ Directed by Dominik Graf 2015-01-08T05:00:00Z You premiered your Liszt show last year at the Laguna Playhouse but haven't gone back to it. Hershey Felder gives Irving Berlin one-man-play treatment at Geffen 2014-12-06T05:00:00Z You can hear a similarity between Liszt’s “Totentanz” and “Must the Devil”: Both pieces begin with a low and lumbering piano part over the orchestra. Adès and Adams: Big Composers With Simultaneous Big Premieres 2019-03-06T05:00:00Z But tastefulness really is a question of taste, and Liszt’s taste is not always the same as his listeners’. Looking at Franz Liszt on His Bicentenary 2011-10-22T04:00:08Z Despite modern scholarship’s zeal to tear down saints from their pedestals, Liszt has retained his halo as basically a nice guy. Looking at Franz Liszt on His Bicentenary 2011-10-22T04:00:08Z The effort languished for more than a decade until the composer and pianist Franz Liszt pledged his influential support. Music Review: An Aural Monument to Beethoven 2011-01-30T22:51:30Z But did the music that Liszt wrote in Weimar and later justify his persistent faith in his own creative genius? Looking at Franz Liszt on His Bicentenary 2011-10-22T04:00:08Z As a player, he is especially eager to perform Liszt’s ingenious, and formidably challenging, piano transcription of Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony in November at Koerner Hall in Toronto. Extraordinary Beethoven, and an Adventurous Streak 2021-05-21T04:00:00Z Carnegie Hall is celebrating its 120th anniversary this year and many artists appearing there are heralding the 200th birthday of Franz Liszt. Music Review: Bang on a Can Features Louis Andriessen at Zankel - Review 2011-11-06T22:48:18Z Charming, but anticlimactic, was the brief set of six Bartok "Romanian Folk Dances" that followed the Liszt. Hélène Grimaud proves again that she does music her way 2012-11-02T20:31:04Z One of the most memorable nighttime performances in the Kaplan Penthouse in recent years was Marino Formenti’s “Liszt Inspections,” a program that alternated between Liszt and more contemporary composers, projecting the old into the new. Classical Music in NYC This Week 2017-08-10T04:00:00Z An evening shared between Chopin and Liszt is sure to test anyone's pianism. Lugansky: A pianist of awesome talent 2011-11-16T18:03:04Z War-battered Leipzig, nicknamed the "city of heroes" for its peaceful resistance as the GDR collapsed, famed as a musical crucible for Wagner, Mendelssohn, Schumann, Liszt and others, was at last regaining its dignity. Berlin on song 2010-04-03T23:06:00Z Vienna offered a variety of choices, ranging from sightseeing and the Lipizzaner horses to museums and a piano recital at the Liszt Music School. Danube River cruise offers choices and chances 2017-05-26T04:00:00Z Its climax — which Liszt achieves by working the extreme ends of the piano simultaneously, to delicately epic effect — spoke for the recital as a whole, judiciously balanced yet thrilling. Review: A Pianist Makes Carnegie Hall His Home 2022-01-14T05:00:00Z Two piano works by Liszt were originally planned to separate the sonatas. Music Review: Straying From the Canon With Unfamiliar Fare 2010-12-12T22:17:00Z Wu’s Boston Symphony appearance came about after she and her children attended a family and youth concert last year, and she played a few bars of Liszt backstage for that program’s conductor, Thomas Wilkins. Boston’s Mayor Trades City Hall for Symphony Hall 2023-05-09T04:00:00Z The lineup included the ubiquitous Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2, from a set of 19 works by Liszt that reflect the folk music of his native Hungary. Music Review: Adam Gyorgy at Carnegie Hall - Review 2011-11-14T22:02:25Z Are you bringing something deeper to your Liszt/Scriabin program than you did last year? After deaths of his daughters, ages 1 and 5, pianist Vadym Kholodenko returns to the stage 2016-06-02T04:00:00Z The continual, anguished collapsing seemed cartoony against the score’s antic qualities, its riffs on Franz Liszt with saxophone and harpsichord. Dance Review: ‘Capture/Release’ Uses Lar Lubovitch Dancers 2013-06-26T21:49:30Z But whereas Liszt opens with a Dies Irae melody, Mr. Adams aims for something funky and distinctly American. Adès and Adams: Big Composers With Simultaneous Big Premieres 2019-03-06T05:00:00Z Liszt, most prophetic of the Romantic composers, paradigm of the virtuoso pianist, proto-modern conductor and promoter of musical talent wherever he found it, was involved with opera all his life. Review | Franz Liszt’s unfinished ‘Sardanapalo’ opera makes its U.S. premiere at Library of Congress 2019-04-28T04:00:00Z Kocsis’s arrangement ends in shadows, out of which Levit’s Liszt emerged; a rough contemporary to “Tristan,” the sonata was here a stand-in for the opera. Review: A Pianist Makes Carnegie Hall His Home 2022-01-14T05:00:00Z Mr. Trifonov, who had a Perspectives series at Carnegie Hall, has always been able to toss off Liszt and Chopin études or any blockbuster concerto. Trifonov and Andsnes: Different Generations, Same Curiosity 2018-05-04T04:00:00Z Among the 65 people to receive this honor were Mendelssohn, Liszt, Dvorak and Copland. Music Review: A Slide Show for the Ear, Given by Emanuel Ax 2011-04-29T21:40:52Z For a long time, I wanted to do a disc of Liszt operatic transcriptions, and I also wanted to explore Thalberg. From a Historic Piano Duel to a Finger-Blurring New Album 2020-09-18T04:00:00Z Everything Liszt did, he addressed to the whole of humanity. The strong and the subtle: Lugansky at UW 2011-11-09T21:23:04Z Franz Liszt as a young man: the key composer of the 19th century, who turbo-charged music. What pop music owes to the classical masters 2013-01-24T18:54:18Z Liszt was Wagner's father-in-law and his sole promoter when nobody wanted anything to do with him. Hershey Felder gives Irving Berlin one-man-play treatment at Geffen 2014-12-06T05:00:00Z This concert apparently marked several occasions, such as the Hungarian presidency of the EU and the start of the Liszt bicentenary. Budapest Festival Orchestra/Fischer/Hough - review 2011-01-17T21:46:01Z He didn’t want his first concerto recording with Decca to be of French music — “It’s not your passport that makes your repertoire,” he said — so, he programmed Liszt. For This Classical Piano Star, a Detour Is Business as Usual 2023-03-16T04:00:00Z “This is definitely a very private Liszt, one who’s retreated to his inner self,” said the pianist Jenny Lin. Liszt’s ‘Harmonies,’ More Intimate Than Ever 2019-09-20T04:00:00Z Composers also transcribed their predecessor’s music; Liszt created solo piano arrangements of all the Beethoven symphonies as well as numerous virtuosic opera transcriptions. Review: Emanuel Ax, at the Mostly Mozart Festival, Gives a 19th-Century Lesson 2015-07-30T04:00:00Z But when Liszt was preparing to perform in London in 1840, an advertisement said that he would give “recitals on the pianoforte.” Two Pianists, Two Recitals, Two Deeply Personal Statements 2021-12-20T05:00:00Z But if Liszt never lacked champions among master pianists, why is he not considered as important as other Romantic composers, like Schumann and Chopin? Critic?s Notebook: A Renaissance Man Before the Renaissance 2011-08-23T12:00:00Z The cadenzas, Lazić's own, are more Liszt than Beethoven, and sound fussy. Beethoven: Piano Concerto No 4; Sonatas No 14 (Op 27, No 2 'Moonlight') and 31 (Op 110) 2011-02-10T21:29:01Z But if Liszt as pianist, teacher and conductor exists now only as memory, anecdote and influence, Liszt as a composer is with us as never before. The hot Liszt 2010-12-27T21:30:01Z We made music together for 25 years and I learned so much from him – he opened my eyes and ears to Brahms, Liszt, and especially Wolf. Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau was a revolutionary performer 2012-05-21T18:08:47Z The pianist has impressed critics with his handling of Liszt's Transcendental Étude No. 11, and audiences will hear the piece for themselves when Sudbin visits this week. Your best arts and entertainment bets for the week ahead 2011-04-13T23:42:04Z As with other shows produced by the ensemble, this one combines music — Bach, Schubert and Liszt, performed onstage — with straight theater, woven through with details culled from the author’s letters and diaries. Robert Fairchild: From God to Monster (and Choreographer) 2017-12-25T05:00:00Z At any rate, the Liszt work, based on a theme from Meyerbeer’s opera “Le Prophète,” offered almost as much to watch as to hear, with its virtuosic peregrinations over the keyboards and pedals. Almost as Much to Watch as to Hear: Mighty Organ Pieces 2016-09-16T04:00:00Z He revisits the sonata next Sunday as part of a Liszt recital at the 92nd Street Y; he will repeat the program at the New Jersey Performing Arts Center in Newark on April 15. Garrick Ohlsson, Chopin Expert, Sets His Sights on Liszt 2012-01-13T16:22:33Z Anniversary years often provide the chance to hear how different musicians interpret the same composer. recently played a Liszt recital at Carnegie Hall, stressing the music’s elegance. Music Review: For Liszt?s 200th, a Youthful Tribute 2011-02-22T00:00:09Z In making comprehensible a work not yet comprehended, Berlioz added, Liszt proved that “he is the pianist of the future.” Critic?s Notebook: A Renaissance Man Before the Renaissance 2011-08-23T12:00:00Z While it would be a mistake to see Liszt as a saint, it would be even more inaccurate to view him as a fraud. The hot Liszt 2010-12-27T21:30:01Z Liszt's own feelings about Jewish people, while not so actively hateful, weren't exactly friendly either. Lisztomania: the most embarrassing historical film ever made? 2013-02-06T10:22:00Z In addition to offering the premiere of a piece by David Herzberg, Mr. Lin plays works by Schumann, Debussy, Bach and Liszt. Opera and Classical Music Listings for Feb. 7-13 2014-02-06T23:48:39Z Earlier on this night, as part of the Prestige Series that presents younger artists, Gesa Luecker, a thoughtful German pianist, played works by Mozart, Liszt and Schumann. Music Review: Improvisation, as Well as Intensity 2011-07-21T21:52:10Z Liszt, the Hungarian pianist who retired at 35 from a wildly popular career as a recitalist to become one of the most important of post-Beethoven, German Romantic composers, was born 200 years ago. Rachmaninov, Liszt and Mahler coming up at symphony 2011-09-29T20:03:09Z Liszt wrote the sonata after a visit to Italy where he heard a lecture on Dante's Divine Comedy. Pianist Angelo Villani: 'It's easy to lose sight of sharing moods and emotions' 2012-10-02T16:16:25Z Those Liszt pieces were divided into two sets: first, three delicate studies and then two of his deliriously virtuosic arrangements of operatic themes. Review: Marc-André Hamelin Connects Past and Present in Kaye Playhouse Recital 2015-07-20T04:00:00Z At the core of the program were Liszt songs: five German ones in a set assembled by the performers, and four in French to poems by Victor Hugo. Matthew Polenzani of the Met Opera in a Solo Recital at Alice Tully 2015-02-05T05:00:00Z Yet when a Hungarian revolution broke out toward the end of the decade and was ruthlessly crushed by the Austrians, neither Liszt nor his freedom-enhancing saber was anywhere to be seen. Looking at Franz Liszt on His Bicentenary 2011-10-22T04:00:08Z In fact, Liszt, born 200 years ago this Oct. Critic?s Notebook: A Renaissance Man Before the Renaissance 2011-08-23T12:00:00Z Ligeti was inspired by Chopin, Liszt, Debussy, jazz and the complex polyphony of sub-Saharan African music while writing his series of rhythmically complicated and virtuosic character pieces. Taka Kigawa, Ligeti in Mind, Returns to Le Poisson Rouge 2016-05-12T04:00:00Z That's the purpose of the Liszt piece, which recurs like a motif, even giving the novel its title: "Le mal du pays" is part of a suite called "Years of Pilgrimage." Haruki Murakami's 'Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki' paints haunting picture 2014-08-08T04:00:00Z That program includes his arrangements of pieces by Mozart, Liszt, Fauré and Smetana. Xavier de Maistre to Play for Mostly Mozart Series 2014-08-09T04:00:00Z Janos Hajdu, the director of Hungary’s Counterterrorism Center, told The Associated Press that the weapons were flown to Budapest’s Ferenc Liszt Airport on Saturday and found in a duty-free zone nearby. ArtsBeat Blog: Brad Pitt, Zombies and Weapons: A Mystery in Hungary 2011-10-11T13:41:25Z Abduraimov decorated the concerto's famed opening theme with the same ornamental allure he brings to Liszt. Fill-ins Behzod Abduraimov and James Gaffigan shine at Bowl 2014-07-16T04:00:00Z If, like me, you're a Liszt fan, then this year's Proms offer nothing better than the all-too rare opportunity to hear his two symphonies in close proximity. Top of the Proms 2011 2011-07-07T20:30:02Z The work shows the main influences in Bartok’s youth: the thematic development echoing Liszt, the opulent harmonies and emotive swirls redolent of Strauss, and the thick textures reflecting Brahms’s chamber music. Music Review: When Youthful Ambition Was Restrained by Prudence 2011-03-28T22:21:23Z Also, even Liszt lovers must admit that he wrote lots of shamelessly flashy piano pieces. Critic?s Notebook: A Renaissance Man Before the Renaissance 2011-08-23T12:00:00Z Liszt, yummy sounds, especially his later works, some of which sound almost like Debussy. Craig Sheppard to Franz Liszt: Happy birthday! 2011-10-19T14:31:04Z The concert finished on an explosive note with a dazzling rendition of the Tarantella from “Venezia e Napoli,” which illuminates Liszt’s florid side with an avalanche of arpeggios, trills and gaudy cadenzas. Music Review: Liszt, the Chick Magnet, Tickled Ivories and More 2011-02-04T22:29:41Z There was barely a moment of relief from the sheer loudness, which distorted his opening set of three Liszt songs. Music Review: Brian Mulligan and Lisette Oropesa at the Morgan Library 2012-04-02T22:10:13Z But by the time Liszt reaches Italy, the music strikes an increasingly self-conscious pose in front of the country’s artistic treasures. Music Review: David Lang’s ‘collected stories’ Take On Travel and Folk 2014-04-28T20:16:46Z Liszt never really forgave him, for it was a fair criticism. Looking at Franz Liszt on His Bicentenary 2011-10-22T04:00:08Z Even in the most stylistically attuned hands, Liszt’s Ballade No. 2 in B Minor risks coming across as overwrought, and Fujita’s traversals of the keyboard sounded superficial rather than splashy. Review: A Young Pianist Finds His Way to Carnegie Hall 2023-01-26T05:00:00Z Afterwards, Liszt plays the piano to a throng of screaming teenagers. Lisztomania: the most embarrassing historical film ever made? 2013-02-06T10:22:00Z Robert Schumann speculated in print that Liszt’s flaws as a composer would be obvious even in his most mature works. Looking at Franz Liszt on His Bicentenary 2011-10-22T04:00:08Z Half of this UW President's Piano Series evening was devoted to Liszt, in celebration of the composer's bicentennial year. Lugansky: A pianist of awesome talent 2011-11-16T18:03:04Z The music draws from the heritage of Bach, Liszt and Wagner, while taking modern paths and anticipating atonality. ArtsBeat: Classical Playlist: Stephanie Blythe, Eva-Maria Houben, Nicholas Phillips and More 2014-03-05T17:18:59Z Mr. Katsaris, who is also a composer, concluded with his own arrangement of Liszt’s popular Piano Concerto No. 2 in A for solo piano. Music Review: Cyprien Katsaris at the International Keyboard Festival 2012-07-17T22:20:52Z In person, “Dante,” a three-part journey through the world of “The Divine Comedy” by way of Liszt and other oblique influences, was a cosmic, at times movingly spiritual and often overwhelming experience. 5 Classical Music Albums You Can Listen to Right Now 2023-04-27T04:00:00Z These Liszt works are marvelous, full of musical-poetic flights, alternately epic and ruminative. Two Singers Reveal the Core of Art Song, on Stages Big and Small 2021-10-11T04:00:00Z These recordings of Chopin and Ravel, separated by a clutch of Liszt miniatures, confirm that Grosvenor's talent is a special one, but their unevenness also reveals that he is not quite the finished article yet. Chopin: Scherzos; Nocturnes; Ravel: Gaspard de la Nuit, etc - review 2011-08-18T21:05:01Z He entered the Franz Liszt Academy of Music, making his recital debut at 11; at 14 he played the Dvorak concerto with a symphony orchestra on a few hours’ notice. Janos Starker, Master Cellist, Dies at 88 2013-04-30T15:05:06Z But to my mind, Liszt is the giant, the key composer of the 19th century, one who turbo-charged music. What pop music owes to the classical masters 2013-01-24T18:54:18Z Liszt’s piano concerto, the work of an established showman who wanted to be taken seriously as a composer, combines virtuosic glitter with transparently textured chamber music. Review: The Philadelphia Orchestra Returns, With Force 2022-09-30T04:00:00Z Still, Liszt’s disasters are at least characteristic, more satisfying than the products of many accomplished but ultimately vapid also-rans of Romantic music, like his onetime assistant, Joachim Raff. Looking at Franz Liszt on His Bicentenary 2011-10-22T04:00:08Z He is a physically undemonstrative player, but his performances of works by Liszt and Scriabin -- two composers and great pianists for whom sensationalism was not a foreign concept – were emotionally draining. In Vadym Kholodenko, talent and tragedy mix 2016-06-05T04:00:00Z As David Dubal, the piano scholar and Juilliard professor, said in a telephone interview, virtuoso “is a term that has not since Paganini and Liszt found a resting place.” King of Virtuosos Is Weary Of His Crown 2011-07-22T15:32:31Z "Liszt, my dear fellow!" says a fellow composer. Lisztomania: the most embarrassing historical film ever made? 2013-02-06T10:22:00Z But it was in the second half, playing Liszt, that Mr. Wang really shone. Music Review: Joaqu?n Ach?carro at Mannes College the New School for Music 2010-07-23T23:25:00Z This is, in many respects, no-frills Liszt, very masculine and carefully steering clear of self-conscious sentiment or souped-up passion. Liszt: Ann?es de P?lerinage ? review 2011-04-07T21:15:00Z The highly regarded pianist Stephen Hough, a brilliant polymath who is also a painter and composer, is the evening’s soloist; he’ll play the mighty Liszt Piano Concerto No. 1. Best bets for classical music in Seattle this fall 2018-09-19T04:00:00Z He is partial to Russian composers and Liszt. The Newest Power Player in Luxury’s First Family 2021-10-26T04:00:00Z He certainly nailed the formidably difficult Liszt sonata. Critic’s Notebook: Recitals by Nikolay Khozyainov and Emanuele Torquati 2013-05-02T21:46:24Z Next week’s program is characteristically intriguing and varied, with works by Mozart, Haydn, Liszt and Schumann. Opera & Classical Music Listings for Sept. 5-11 2014-09-04T04:00:00Z Yet that’s exactly what Liszt did by selecting works that together created the musical equivalent of a varied literary reading. Review: Leif Ove Andsnes Gives a Thoughtful Recital at Carnegie Hall 2015-11-17T05:00:00Z Liszt nevertheless continued to entertain potential operatic projects well into adulthood, though none were completed. Review | Franz Liszt’s unfinished ‘Sardanapalo’ opera makes its U.S. premiere at Library of Congress 2019-04-28T04:00:00Z Last season Evgeny Kissin, one of the most uncannily accomplished pianists of modern times, played a remarkable Liszt recital at Carnegie Hall. Virtuosos Becoming a Dime a Dozen 2011-08-12T13:09:23Z Polenzani and Drake recorded the first volume of an ongoing series covering a complete cycle of songs by Franz Liszt a few years ago, some of which they performed. Polenzani’s singing and Drake’s piano playing create engaging performance 2015-01-15T05:00:00Z It's very different from its predecessor, which featured tenor Matthew Polenzani and songs by Liszt at his most spectacular and extrovert. Liszt: Songs – review 2012-07-12T20:48:01Z He’ll reprise the Liszt as part of his recital introduction on Carnegie’s main stage. Carnegie Hall’s New Season: What We Want to Hear 2023-02-28T05:00:00Z Presented by Vocal Arts DC, Rae and accompanist Ware excelled in five Franz Liszt songs full of drama. Review | Sound system boom rattles Kennedy Center audience, but not soprano Brenda Rae 2019-09-16T04:00:00Z A Beethoven Warm-Up and a Liszt Workout There were probably some disappointed Murray Perahia fans at on Thursday night. Music Review: A Beethoven Warm-Up and a Liszt Workout 2010-11-21T22:53:00Z The anger of the finale contrasted with the sadness of the short Liszt works that Mr. Lewis played after intermission. Music Review: Paul Lewis at Zankel Hall With Beethoven and Bach 2014-03-27T22:36:02Z Schumann composed his Fantasy as a tribute to and dedicated it to Liszt, whose “Vallée d’Obermann” Mr. Lewis played after intermission. Music Review: English Pianist Paul Lewis at the Metropolitan Museum of Art 2010-04-25T22:04:00Z “Later, I would use it to trill long at the top of the keyboard in the Liszt First Concerto,” he writes, nonchalantly. A Pianist Revisits His Youth, in Playful Fragments 2023-04-10T04:00:00Z The phrase “solo recital” was first used by Liszt in 1840 to describe his solo concerts. Review: Leif Ove Andsnes Gives a Thoughtful Recital at Carnegie Hall 2015-11-17T05:00:00Z Certainly, the resonant acoustics were adequate to Liszt’s clotted textures and harmonies, and his stabs at real counterpoint in fugues at the end of the Gloria and the Credo weren’t headed anywhere interesting anyway. Critic?s Notebook: A Jewel of a Spring Festival, Not Selling Out, but Still Sparkling 2011-04-20T22:16:56Z Liszt’s brooding transcription of Schubert’s song “Der Doppelgänger” emerges out of the shadowy ending of Liszt’s B minor Sonata, its grandeur and intimacy both captured here. 5 Classical Music Albums You Can Listen to Right Now 2023-10-26T04:00:00Z Yet you cannot play the piano, at least the brawny works of Liszt and company, with just your fingers. For Glenn Gould, Form Followed Fingers 2010-09-25T21:04:00Z Several arrangements of Schubert and Liszt songs by members of the ensemble made astute use of its resources, often passing the vocal lines around the winds and keeping the accompaniments in the strings. Music Review: In a Rite of Late Summer, Naumburg Concerts Finish 2011-08-23T22:58:52Z A set of Mignon songs by Schubert, Schumann, Liszt, Tchaikovsky, Duparc and Wolf was beautifully sung, but there was little sense of individual stories or characters. Music Review: Susan Graham and Malcolm Martineau at Carnegie Hall 2012-02-02T23:20:09Z At this stage – Strauss was just 21 when he wrote it – the influences on his music of both Brahms and Liszt remain undigested. Prom 56: BBCSO/Bychkov ? review 2011-08-28T14:44:08Z In his letter, really a manifesto, Liszt placed the piano at the “top of the hierarchy of instruments.” Critic?s Notebook: A Renaissance Man Before the Renaissance 2011-08-23T12:00:00Z Liszt helped disseminate the orchestral and vocal music of his time with hundreds of transcriptions and paraphrases for the piano, including the “Rigoletto” Paraphrase inspired by Verdi’s opera. Music Review: Adam Gyorgy at Carnegie Hall - Review 2011-11-14T22:02:25Z Ohlsson opened with Liszt's labyrinthine arrangement of Bach's Fantasy and Fugue in G Minor, illuminating all the inner voices of the Fugue portion with unusual clarity. Garrick Ohlsson performs a superb night of Liszt in Seattle 2012-03-08T17:57:04Z These pieces’ connection to their ancestors — Debussy’s own set of études, their movement perpetual, whether fast or slow; the grandiose drama of Liszt; the complex rhythmic games of Conlon Nancarrow — are ever more obvious. Review: Taka Kigawa Masters the Conflicting Rhythms of Ligeti 2016-05-17T04:00:00Z Their influence is reflected in his poetic titles, chromatic harmonies and rippling patterns, like those in “The Fountain of Acqua Paola” from “Roman Sketches,” which also evokes pieces by Liszt and Ravel. Music Review: Garrick Ohlsson Summons Stamina at Carnegie Hall 2014-02-12T22:56:52Z Schumann was first and foremost a composer, not a virtuoso-turned-composer like Chopin or Liszt. SSO plans a romantic weekend with conductor Jun M?rkl, German classics 2010-05-05T22:17:00Z As Liszt did in the 19th century, Mr. Kenney has been expanding on the melodies of popular songs — “Thank U, Next,” “Blue” — with elaborate accompaniment that creates a Bachian illusion of polyphony. For Classical Music, Spring Was the Season of Solos 2020-06-18T04:00:00Z His programme – Chopin, Brahms, Liszt – was terribly difficult, typically generous and dispatched with a minimum of fuss. Nikolai Lugansky ? review 2011-01-12T22:31:01Z Though it is exciting and even magical to see a pianist giving a triumphant performance of the demonically difficult Liszt Piano Sonata, or any work, from memory, there are different kinds of talents. Critic’s Notebook: Memorization’s Loosening Hold on Concert Tradition 2012-12-31T23:18:16Z Liszt’s 12 aptly titled études, works of visionary imagination, are so technically daunting that even many virtuosos take a pass. The Best Classical Music Recordings of 2016 2016-12-15T05:00:00Z Liszt, Mr. Lortie revealed, wasn’t merely composing picture postcards; the “Années” are profound explorations of memory, the way past and present interact to create art. Music Review: Liszt Suites of Travel, United as a Journey 2011-03-11T23:45:19Z Liszt's aphoristic thoughts on desire and God had a drastic simplicity, as if both passion and virtuosity were all spent. Boesch/Martineau ? review 2011-04-04T21:00:01Z I visited the Liszt Museum when I was in Budapest last year. The hot Liszt 2010-12-27T21:30:01Z “Liszt was kind of the first rock star,” Mr. Perlmutter explained. ‘Beethoven’s Wig’ Combines Classical Music With Seussian Whimsy 2016-09-29T04:00:00Z In the writer and director James Schamus’s adaptation of “Indignation,” which opened on Friday, there’s no Beethoven; the music that Bertram blasts is Liszt’s Piano Concerto No. 1 and Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No. 4. A Sterilized Philip Roth Adaptation 2016-08-02T04:00:00Z Two "Odes" that are part of the work are dedicated to Franz Liszt and Gustav Mahler, who both suffered the loss of a child. Chiara String Quartet makes concert-hall and nightclub stops in Seattle 2011-02-04T20:16:04Z Garrick Ohlsson performed works by Liszt, in a celebration of the bicentennial of that composer's birth, at the 92nd Street Y on Sunday. Music Review: Garrick Ohlsson Celebrates a Bicentennial at 92nd Street Y 2012-01-24T23:27:22Z The program also included two pieces inspired by Chopin, “Meine Freuden” from “Chants Polonais” and the Ballade No. 2 in B minor, in which Liszt’s bombastic side is on full display. Music Review: Liszt, the Chick Magnet, Tickled Ivories and More 2011-02-04T22:29:41Z Scored for an orchestra divided into eight groups spread widely among the playing space, this is funeral music, as surely as any by Beethoven, Liszt, Wagner or Mahler. Sampling the Work of Pierre Boulez 2016-01-06T05:00:00Z It was brought home that this was a matter of interpretative choice by the fact that comparable moments of introspection in his Brahms and his Liszt brought with them no such intransigence. Nikolai Lugansky ? review 2011-01-12T22:31:01Z Mr. Nakamatsu devoted his program mostly to Romantic music — works by Brahms, Liszt and — but he began with an elegant, texturally transparent account of a Rameau Gavotte with six variations, originally for harpsichord. Music Review: Muscularity and Grace in Sounds of Romance 2011-04-13T22:13:16Z The other works on the program are Bruch’s Violin Concerto No. 1, with Joshua Bell as the soloist, and works by Nielsen, Grieg and Liszt. With Storms Expected, Philharmonic Cancels Central Park Concert 2014-07-14T04:00:00Z Mr. Hamelin’s imaginative and soulful recording of the Liszt sonata is one of his latest releases on Hyperion. King of Virtuosos Is Weary Of His Crown 2011-07-22T15:32:31Z Liszt is a boldface name this season, with myriad pianists celebrating the bicentennial of his birth. Music Review: Garrick Ohlsson Celebrates a Bicentennial at 92nd Street Y 2012-01-24T23:27:22Z Years later, Liszt returned the favor by dedicating his daunting Sonata in B minor to Schumann. Five Days, Three Pianists, Three Generations 2019-02-06T05:00:00Z In the Liszt, the brasses aimed not only for the back row but seemingly also for passers-by on the street. Review: The Philadelphia Orchestra Returns, With Force 2022-09-30T04:00:00Z Liszt commissioned an Italian libretto and worked on the opera between 1849 and 1852, when he became preoccupied with other projects. Review | Franz Liszt’s unfinished ‘Sardanapalo’ opera makes its U.S. premiere at Library of Congress 2019-04-28T04:00:00Z Busoni and Liszt transcribed his works, and Leopold Stokowski orchestrated them. Music Review | Absolute Ensemble: New Look at Bach, 21st-Century Composer 2010-02-23T23:33:00Z It's always something new: a different take on a familiar piece, a performance that is faster or slower or quirkier than you've heard before, and a chance to venture more deeply into Liszt's sonic world. Garrick Ohlsson performs a superb night of Liszt in Seattle 2012-03-08T17:57:04Z The Liszt set, music for which Watts is particularly known, was dazzling in terms of sheer dexterity and the uncanny evenness of touch that are two of the pianist’s stocks-in-trade. Taxes forgotten, Meany crowd welcomes André Watts 2014-04-16T18:56:41Z Speaking to the audience that packed Lincoln Center’s Kaplan Penthouse on Wednesday night for his adventurous recital titled “Liszt Inspections,” the probing Italian pianist Marino Formenti ended his introductory comments with two words of encouragement. Marino Formenti, Fully Engaged, at NY Phil Biennial 2014-06-06T04:00:00Z Schumann’s wife, Clara, was blunter in private, calling Liszt’s compositions tasteless and “a chaos of dissonances.” Looking at Franz Liszt on His Bicentenary 2011-10-22T04:00:08Z His repertory next season will include Mussorgsky’s “Pictures at an Exhibition,” late works by Liszt and a sonata by the obscure Julius Reubke, a pupil of Liszt’s. Classical: The Sad Beauty in Schubert’s Last Sonatas 2012-10-14T02:00:41Z She took piano lessons with Liszt and developed a girlhood crush on him. A Queen of 19th-Century Opera Gets New Attention 2021-07-16T04:00:00Z An interactive permanent show guides visitors through the historical development of Western music; celebrates the contribution of Hungarian composers like Liszt, Bartok and Kodaly; and traces Hungary’s folk music tradition to its Central Asian roots. A Music Museum Opens in the Heart of Hungary’s Culture Wars 2022-02-02T05:00:00Z Liszt, like his music, was constructed of paradoxes, as he well knew. Looking at Franz Liszt on His Bicentenary 2011-10-22T04:00:08Z Liszt and Carolyne try to get married, but the pope is having none of it. Lisztomania: the most embarrassing historical film ever made? 2013-02-06T10:22:00Z In Britain this month he is due to play Liszt, Schubert and Franck at the Edinburgh festival and Rachmaninov’s “Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini” in his 25th appearance at the BBC Proms in London. He’s the piano man 2016-08-04T04:00:00Z And in recital programs, he will continue to take risks, like his remarkably ambitious Carnegie Hall program last season, which included Beethoven’s final sonata and Liszt transcriptions, as well as all of his “Transcendental Études.” Daniil Trifonov, New to Rachmaninoff, but a Bold and Youthful Echo 2015-11-13T05:00:00Z No wonder that for keyboard aficionados, Garrick Ohlsson is at the top of the Liszt. Garrick Ohlsson performs a superb night of Liszt in Seattle 2012-03-08T17:57:04Z The Mahler retrospectives have continued into this year, the 100th anniversary of his death as well as the bicentennial of another path-breaking composer, Franz Liszt. Two Composers, Honored Silently 2011-07-30T04:00:25Z She ended up with over 300 names, a who’s-who of 19th-century icons: composers like Rossini, Liszt and Schumann; novelists like George Sand, Victor Hugo and Ivan Turgenev, her lover; Giuseppe Mazzini and Napoleon III. A Queen of 19th-Century Opera Gets New Attention 2021-07-16T04:00:00Z Reicha’s name also pops up in the biographies of composers who studied counterpoint with him at the Paris Conservatory: Berlioz, Liszt, Franck, Gounod. A Friend of Beethoven, Now Rediscovered in His Own Right 2018-09-07T04:00:00Z The competition, held once every four years, mixes a little bit of “American Idol” with a whole lot of Liszt and Rachmaninoff. Texas Monthly: In Texas, Van Cliburn Piano Contest Goes On Without Him 2013-05-19T02:09:31Z Mr. Formenti chose some of the most enigmatic, radical works by Liszt, including late rarities. Marino Formenti, Fully Engaged, at NY Phil Biennial 2014-06-06T04:00:00Z The final programmed work was “Hexameron,” a set of variations on a theme of Bellini that was cobbled together by Franz Liszt from contributions from six composers. Pianist Ingolf Wunder gets carried away with his fearless approach 2016-04-11T04:00:00Z But the question remains: with all these achievements, why was Liszt so underrated for so long? The hot Liszt 2010-12-27T21:30:01Z “He sat down at the piano and tore into the opening bars of a Liszt concerto in such a way that we simply flipped,” Mr. Bernstein later said, recounting the young pianist’s audition. André Watts, Pioneering Piano Virtuoso, Dies at 77 2023-07-14T04:00:00Z A version of this review appears in print on April 29, 2014, on page C2 of the with the headline: Visiting the Alps, With Liszt and Goats . Music Review: David Lang’s ‘collected stories’ Take On Travel and Folk 2014-04-28T20:16:46Z It is a revelation, from the incandescence of her Toccata from Widor’s Fifth Symphony to the jazzy angularity of Jean Berveiller’s “Mouvement”; the reverence of her Bach chorale preludes to the fury of her Liszt. She Was an Organist for the Ages 2021-11-02T04:00:00Z The imposing bronze Beethoven monument on the Münsterplatz, which the Hungarian composer and pianist Franz Liszt helped pay for, remains one of the city’s defining images. From Bonn to Vienna, in Search of Beethoven, the Man 2020-02-24T05:00:00Z This approach to solo piano writing is “something that Liszt developed in the middle of the 19th century,” Mr. Wallisch said. When Classical Composers Did the Fox Trot 2020-03-03T05:00:00Z After dazzling him with her impromptu performance of a piece by Liszt, she explains bitterly that her hopes for a classical piano career were dashed when she failed to win a competition. Review: ‘Victoria,’ a Nonstop Flight Through the Streets of Berlin 2015-10-08T04:00:00Z Whatever intensity he brings to daunting pieces by Rachmaninoff or Liszt, he never appears pushed to his limits. Review: A Star Pianist Finally Lets Us See Him Sweat 2018-05-06T04:00:00Z The Liszt pieces are special to Villani, who, as his name suggests, is of Italian extraction. Pianist Angelo Villani: 'It's easy to lose sight of sharing moods and emotions' 2012-10-02T16:16:25Z Liszt was a pioneer in pushing the bounds of what’s possible at the piano, especially in his Transcendental Études. Review: A Carnegie Recital Pushes the Piano to Its Limits 2019-02-27T05:00:00Z Concert Dance Inc. celebrates its 30th anniversary June 9 and 10 by presenting several works commissioned by Ravinia over the years, including a new dance set to Liszt's music. Ravinia spices up summer 2011-03-09T22:42:00Z In Variations 14 and 29, Bach is a virtuoso à la Liszt. Swapping Songs With Chess Grandmaster Garry Kasparov 2020-12-18T05:00:00Z The last ever portrait of Liszt, by Mihály Munkácsy, will also form part of the show ahead of the bicentennial of the composer's birth next year. Royal Academy to exhibit Hungary's art treasures 2010-05-14T23:49:00Z “I am not an unabashed Liszt fan,” he quickly added. Garrick Ohlsson, Chopin Expert, Sets His Sights on Liszt 2012-01-13T16:22:33Z This is a very traditional competition: contestants are required to prove themselves technically in the preliminaries by playing two études, including one by Liszt or Chopin. Critic’s Notebook: Exploring Bavaria and the Busoni International Piano Festival 2012-09-07T23:47:51Z Yet both interests seemed, as ever with Liszt, to be equally sincere. Looking at Franz Liszt on His Bicentenary 2011-10-22T04:00:08Z The real Cosima Liszt left her husband for Wagner, though it didn't happen like this and nobody was a vampire. Lisztomania: the most embarrassing historical film ever made? 2013-02-06T10:22:00Z The work represents Liszt at his most virtuosic and programmatic, with the soul’s descent into hell evoked in fiery cascades of sound. Music Review: For Liszt?s 200th, a Youthful Tribute 2011-02-22T00:00:09Z Franz Liszt followed the opposite trajectory: he lived a glamorous life, rich in material and artistic success, but his reputation suffered in posterity. Music Review: For Liszt?s 200th, a Youthful Tribute 2011-02-22T00:00:09Z A week of events ends on Saturday with a song celebration, featuring four rising singers and the soprano Nina Stemme, performing varied works, including songs by Mussorgsky, Schubert and Liszt. Classical Music Listings for Jan. 22-28 2016-01-21T05:00:00Z In keyboard works like the Chromatic Fantasy and Fugue, Bach anticipated the rhapsodic Romantic fervor of Liszt, even Rachmaninoff. The Greatest 2011-01-21T14:04:41Z Her work is not nearly as widely known as that of Robert Schumann, Liszt, Saint-Saëns or others in her social circle. A Queen of 19th-Century Opera Gets New Attention 2021-07-16T04:00:00Z "This program is a little bit of a celebration of anniversaries for Mahler and Liszt," says Morlot. Rachmaninov, Liszt and Mahler coming up at symphony 2011-09-29T20:03:09Z Mozart, Beethoven, Chopin, Paganini, Mendelssohn, Liszt and Rachmaninoff were all considered among the top virtuosos of their day. Composer Stephen Hough, accomplished on paper and in the concert hall 2016-09-26T04:00:00Z If I was scoring a battle scene for a film, I would use many of the techniques that Liszt first employed. What pop music owes to the classical masters 2013-01-24T18:54:18Z Liszt was a champion of knotty works that mystified the public: not only music by contemporaries but also older scores, like the late Beethoven and Schubert piano sonatas. Critic?s Notebook: A Renaissance Man Before the Renaissance 2011-08-23T12:00:00Z Liszt was the most consequential piano teacher of his time. Critic?s Notebook: A Renaissance Man Before the Renaissance 2011-08-23T12:00:00Z And mostly he ruled, proving himself conversant in subjects as far-flung as leprosy and Franz Liszt, the Olympics and hedgehogs. Final score on 'Jeopardy!': Computer 1, humans 0 2011-02-17T14:09:35Z Like Liszt, he writes romantic piano solos with a sparkling right hand; like Keith Jarrett, he improvises funky gospel tunes, humming along with his own solos. London Jazz Festival: Tigran Hamasyan – review 2012-11-11T17:51:46Z He also cites Liszt’s own self-described tendency to “hurl his spear into the vast expanse of the future” rather than, say, the salons that surrounded him. Review | At the Kennedy Center, songs you haven’t heard and cellphones you wish you hadn’t 2021-10-18T04:00:00Z In “Rhapsody Rabbit,” Bugs answers a ringing phone, says, “What’s up, Doc? Who? Franz Liszt? Never heard of him,” and plays “Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2” and boogie-woogie while he’s bedevilled by a mouse. Wuvwy Music 2015-05-22T04:00:00Z Liszt was the template for the rest of the program. Music Review | Thomas Ad?s: At Carnegie Hall, Composer Is Keyboard Virtuoso Too 2010-03-29T04:58:00Z His recording of Wagner’s “Solemn March to the Holy Grail” from “Parsifal,” as transcribed by Liszt, is one the most hauntingly sublime tracks of the year. The Best Classical Music of 2018 2018-12-05T05:00:00Z At the on Sunday afternoon, Ms. de la Salle offered a Liszt program in honor of the bicentennial of the composer’s birth. Music Review: For Liszt?s 200th, a Youthful Tribute 2011-02-22T00:00:09Z Trifonov had chosen a programme to suit his strengths – sonatas by Scriabin and Liszt, followed by Chopin's 24 Preludes Op 28. Daniil Trifonov – review 2012-12-05T19:40:44Z The Liszt piece is part of his larger “Years of Pilgrimage,” which gives the book the second half of its title. Haruki Murakami’s ‘Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage’ 2014-08-13T04:00:00Z He began a strangely skewed Liszt first half with three works from the composer’s pilgrimage series by bringing a deliberate slowness to character pieces inspired by Petrarch Sonnets 104 and 123. In Vadym Kholodenko, talent and tragedy mix 2016-06-05T04:00:00Z Three songs by Satie and five by Ravel root an evening that also includes Liszt, Beethoven and Barber’s “Hermit Songs.” Opera & Classical Music Listings for Jan. 30-Feb. 5 2015-01-29T05:00:00Z He hosted Saturday evening musical gatherings that attracted the likes of Liszt, Saint-Saëns and Verdi. The Puzzle of Rossini?s Brief Career 2011-07-03T02:00:06Z A light, skipping version of Leonard Bernstein’s tune for “Lucky to Be Me” from “On the Town” segued into a piece by Liszt. Music Review: Rossano Sportiello Pays Tribute to George Shearing 2013-06-16T21:32:51Z After intermission she offered a rhapsodic, uncommonly nuanced account of the formidable Liszt Sonata in B minor. Music Review: Yuja Wang at Carnegie Hall - Review 2011-10-21T22:23:35Z Chopin was wonderful, but Liszt was real boys’ material: heroic, leaping tall buildings in a single bound, doing the impossible.” Garrick Ohlsson, Chopin Expert, Sets His Sights on Liszt 2012-01-13T16:22:33Z Though none of these pieces are representative of Liszt in virtuoso display mode, they are a test of any pianist’s mettle. James Tocco impresses with rare performance of 1849 Liszt piano suite 2015-11-11T05:00:00Z By the time I was 12, Liszt was driving me nuts, and by the time I was 13, even more. Garrick Ohlsson, Chopin Expert, Sets His Sights on Liszt 2012-01-13T16:22:33Z She has the right whiff of theatricality for Liszt. Roocroft/Martineau ? review 2011-03-04T18:05:51Z They hoped for spiritual guidance from Weimar’s intellectual ghosts: former residents include Goethe, Schiller, Nietzsche and Liszt. 100 years of Bauhaus: Berlin and beyond 2019-03-16T04:00:00Z But his admirers laud him as the Liszt or Paganini of the 21st century. U.S. organist Carpenter bends rules of performing 2013-09-16T20:23:19Z First and foremost, Liszt was a colossal pianist, the most awesome virtuoso of his era, who in his playing and his compositions for piano pushed the boundaries of technique, texture and sound. Critic?s Notebook: A Renaissance Man Before the Renaissance 2011-08-23T12:00:00Z He is back with two new pieces: “Bolero,” to Ravel’s well-known score, and “Another Place,” set to Liszt’s Sonata in B Minor. Ivo van Hove’s ‘Don Giovanni’ Will Be Shared by Paris and the Met 2018-01-30T05:00:00Z The opening Scarlatti set which, like the Liszt works that concluded the program, involved a lot of hand-crossing and leaps up and down the keyboard was muscular and athletic as well as graceful and delicate. Taxes forgotten, Meany crowd welcomes André Watts 2014-04-16T18:56:41Z Moreover, clad in black and tossing his shoulder-length locks as he swayed histrionically over the keyboard, Liszt too was addicted to playing his part in this communal rapture. Piano man 2016-06-30T04:00:00Z In César Franck's "Prelude, Chorale and Fugue," a homage to Bach via Beethoven, Schumann and Liszt, Perahia sustained a mystical mood. Murray Perahia evokes suspense, sadness and exhilaration at Disney Hall 2015-03-16T04:00:00Z Brian Zeger, a prominent collaborative pianist, has assembled the songs, which will be performed by gifted Juilliard students under three headings that represent various elements of Liszt’s life: Landscapes, Looking Inward and Love. Classical Music Listings for Nov. 27-Dec. 3 2015-11-27T05:00:00Z Liszt was his own keenest critic, often making multiple versions of even modest pieces in a constant search for an elusive perfection. Looking at Franz Liszt on His Bicentenary 2011-10-22T04:00:08Z Mr. Kissin offered a program spanning 50 years, with the works performed in chronological order, from the Viennese classicism of late Haydn to the daredevil virtuosity of Liszt. Music Review: Evgeny Kissin at Carnegie Hall 2013-05-08T20:57:19Z Liszt's sizable Faust Symphony proved a tougher nut to crack. LPO/Jurowski 2010-05-03T21:45:00Z In his tone poems, Liszt provided the template for generations of film composers. What pop music owes to the classical masters 2013-01-24T18:54:18Z Ax seemed more suavely at ease in his encore, Liszt’s arrangement of Schubert’s “Ständchen.” Review: A Shostakovich Symphony Finally Reaches the Philharmonic 2022-12-02T05:00:00Z But most of the nearly two dozen concerts include only a work or two by Liszt, and a few are Liszt-free. Music Review: Brahms in a New Light, Resembling the Weightier Liszt 2011-07-18T22:08:46Z The conductor and Mr. Thibaudet were clearly on the same page for their performance of the Liszt concerto. Music Review | Yannick N?zet-S?guin: Youthful Intensity, Onstage and in the Program 2010-02-19T04:51:00Z At the end of his career Liszt rebelled against his own creative extremes, paring down works with a leaner aesthetic. Music Review: Hearing ?Spring? as Summer Fades 2010-09-05T22:32:00Z With toy instruments, sleigh bells, cracking whips and a stirring instrumental setting of the hymn “Adeste Fideles,” “Santa Claus” was an innovative, seamless single-movement narrative, in the vein of Franz Liszt’s symphonic poems. When the New York Philharmonic Fought Over Santa Claus 2020-05-13T04:00:00Z On Friday, Mr. Levit played much of the album’s weighty program, including works and transcriptions by Brahms, Busoni, Liszt and Schumann. Review: A Pianist’s Profound Vision of ‘Life,’ in Just 2 Hours 2018-10-21T04:00:00Z In his lecture Mr. Walker emphasized two facets of Liszt the pianist that are more relevant than ever. Critic?s Notebook: A Renaissance Man Before the Renaissance 2011-08-23T12:00:00Z In the liner notes of his new recording, Mr. Trifonov calls these pieces “existential meditations,” and he has added a second disc to encompass Liszt’s other solo-piano études. Classical Music to Come: A Finnish Star, Minimalism and Wagner 2016-09-16T04:00:00Z Her artistry was at its best, rich with imagination and technical prowess, in works by Liszt, especially the Hungarian Rhapsody No. 13. Music Review: Improvisation, as Well as Intensity 2011-07-21T21:52:10Z The program focuses on pieces that reveal the mystical, progressive, even radical side of Liszt, including some with provocative titles, like “Bagatelle Without Tonality.” Classical Music & Opera Listings for May 30-June 5 2014-05-29T04:00:00Z The latest nod to Liszt here in Seattle came with the return of Garrick Ohlsson to the President's Piano Series, where he has been a popular regular over the years. Garrick Ohlsson performs a superb night of Liszt in Seattle 2012-03-08T17:57:04Z Why is Liszt so important to pianists in general, and to you in particular? After deaths of his daughters, ages 1 and 5, pianist Vadym Kholodenko returns to the stage 2016-06-02T04:00:00Z "Group life insurance is crucial for people with pre-existing conditions who are denied independent coverage," said certified financial planner Spenser Liszt of Motif Planning in Dallas. Three tips to maximize benefits during open enrollment 2023-11-08T05:00:00Z He was nominated for five Grammy Awards and won Most Promising New Classical Recording Artist in 1964 for the Liszt concerto with Bernstein and the New York Philharmonic. Pianist André Watts dies at age 77 of prostate cancer 2023-07-14T04:00:00Z Sand was more than a great writer; she was a central figure in the Romantic whirligig that also included Liszt, Chopin and Delacroix. Where you can (and can’t) watch eight of Julian Sands' most notable movie roles 2023-06-27T04:00:00Z At the top, in a small room, there’s a piano that was made for Franz Liszt. Opinion | A court’s decision about Gruyère stinks 2023-03-15T04:00:00Z The program included what were said to be newly discovered works by Beethoven and Liszt. Hannes Keller, Swiss Deep-Sea Diving Pioneer, Is Dead at 88 2023-01-13T05:00:00Z “This is the water we swim in,” Liszt says. Giant satellite outshines stars, sparking fresh concerns for astronomers 2022-11-13T05:00:00Z Bernstein conducted Watts and the orchestra in Liszt’s Piano Concerto No. 1. Pianist André Watts dies at age 77 of prostate cancer 2023-07-14T04:00:00Z He did still smuggle a tribute to Liszt’s “Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2” from that famous short, “The Cat Concerto,” into the quicksilver pianism of the album’s “Mary Poppins Fantasy.” Lang Lang believes Disney songs are good for kids — and the classical music world 2022-09-15T04:00:00Z He caught the attention of Berlioz and Liszt, both of whom were considerable influences. Review: Is it finally time to take Saint-Saëns seriously? 2022-08-05T04:00:00Z They sported thick shocks of unruly hair that reinforced the caricature of the long-haired musician, like Franz Liszt. A violin from Hollywood’s golden age could bring an auction record 2022-05-09T04:00:00Z Using Liszt as an extravagant model and further happily drawing from or transforming Ravel, Mussorgsky, Dowland and others, Adès revels in his own exceptional extravagance. Commentary: Thomas Adès' fantastical 'Dante' at the L.A. Phil makes Gen X proud 2022-05-04T04:00:00Z Watts so impressed Bernstein that the conductor chose him to replace an indisposed Glenn Gould and play the Liszt concerto twice at Philharmonic Hall a few weeks later. Pianist André Watts dies at age 77 of prostate cancer 2023-07-14T04:00:00Z And “Let It Go” feels like a Liszt piano concerto, with “a lot of octaves and a lot of technical turns.” Lang Lang believes Disney songs are good for kids — and the classical music world 2022-09-15T04:00:00Z He was known particularly for his interpretations of the works of the Romantic composers of the 19th century: Beethoven, Schumann, Chopin, Liszt and especially Brahms. Nicholas Angelich, acclaimed classical pianist, dies at 51 2022-04-21T04:00:00Z Designed by Japanese architect Sou Fujimoto, the House of Music, Hungary opened its doors to visitors on Sunday with concerts by musicians of the Liszt Ferenc Music Academy. Futuristic mushroom? All-glass House of Music blooms in Budapest park 2022-01-25T05:00:00Z Interior Minister Liszt Quitel did not reply to a request for comment. Suspect in assassination of Haiti's Moise dies of coronavirus complications 2021-11-18T05:00:00Z Human rights organizations have accused Justice Minister Liszt Quitel of using both government resources and a Haitian gang to kidnap the pastor after a personal dispute. Gangs Rule Much of Haiti. For Many, It Means No Fuel, No Power, No Food. 2021-10-27T04:00:00Z “My songs are poisoned,” was the first line he sang, in Liszt’s song of that title. Review: After cancellations in Europe, tenor Jonas Kaufmann brings his 'poison' to the Broad Stage 2021-10-24T04:00:00Z “The demand was made to the country chief of the Christian Aid Ministries,” Justice Minister Liszt Quitel said in a phone interview. Kidnappers in Haiti Demand $17 Million to Free Missionary Group 2021-10-19T04:00:00Z Liszt Quitel, Haiti’s justice minister, said that it was not clear whether children were included in the ransom amount, and that the gang was probably expecting to negotiate. Haitian gang that kidnapped 17 from missionary group seeks $1 million ransom per person, justice minister says 2021-10-19T04:00:00Z After a program including an arrangement of Liszt’s “Hungarian Rhapsody” and a crowd-pleasing encore of Édith Piaf’s “Hymne a l’Amour,” the musicians were as charmed by their livestock listeners as their human ones. When the cellos play, the cows come home 2021-04-28T04:00:00Z For its consecration in 1856, Hungarian composer and pianist Franz Liszt composed a mass. 176-year-old time capsule revealed in cross on Hungarian cathedral 2021-04-15T04:00:00Z This is also the first song on his new recording of neglected Liszt songs. Review: After cancellations in Europe, tenor Jonas Kaufmann brings his 'poison' to the Broad Stage 2021-10-24T04:00:00Z Walliams deftly engages his audience with historical adventures, telling stories of the piano, Franz Liszt and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart with the help of cartoonish scenes and goofy re-enactments from across the eras of musical history. 5 Music Podcasts for Kids 2021-02-06T05:00:00Z Horowitz put together a demanding program of works by Mozart, Rachmaninoff, Schubert, Liszt, Scriabin and Chopin, all of which held a special meaning to the pianist. What's on TV Friday: 'Magnum P.I.' on CBS; 'Painting With John' 2021-01-21T05:00:00Z As a young man, he signed a contract with Columbia Masterworks, and earned acclaim for his performances of piano concertos by Brahms, Liszt and Beethoven, with conductors including Leonard Bernstein and George Szell. Leon Fleisher, US pianist who lost use of his right hand, dies aged 92 2020-08-03T04:00:00Z “This next one is by Franz Liszt,” he said. It’s a Tough Time to Be a Street Musician With a 900-Pound Piano 2020-07-16T04:00:00Z In the Heine text that Liszt set, the poet’s heart is beset by “many serpents / and you, my beloved.” Review: After cancellations in Europe, tenor Jonas Kaufmann brings his 'poison' to the Broad Stage 2021-10-24T04:00:00Z On Fridays, the orchestra would be back in Budapest and perform in the opulent surroundings of the city’s Liszt Academy. Drive-by Strauss: Hungarian orchestra airs concerts from cars 2020-04-06T04:00:00Z The two-DVD set features actor Michael York as the voice of Liszt, along with Nissman’s interpretations of the 19th century composer’s work. Classical pianist grows catalog of master class DVDs 2020-03-07T05:00:00Z “It seemed to me that they were neglecting their responsibility back here,” said Harvey Liszt, N.R.A.O.’s spectrum manager. OneWeb Launches 34 Satellites as Astronomers Fear Radio Chatter 2020-02-06T05:00:00Z After the terrific music, especially Liszt, we joined P. and some other people in champagne toasts. The Art of Dying 2019-12-16T05:00:00Z The Liszt songs, which Kaufmann in his remarks to the audience credited to Deutsch for having brought to his attention, are finds. Review: After cancellations in Europe, tenor Jonas Kaufmann brings his 'poison' to the Broad Stage 2021-10-24T04:00:00Z The Takacs Quartet was founded in 1975 by four students at the Franz Liszt Academy in Budapest; today, there is only one Hungarian left. The Takacs Quartet brings the Bartok cycle back to the Kennedy Center 2019-10-07T04:00:00Z “Lisztomania,” coined in 1844, described the mass frenzy that occurred at Franz Liszt’s concerts, where audience members fought over the composer’s gloves or broken piano strings. Superfans: A Love Story 2019-09-09T04:00:00Z The second lesson — grimly evident in three hours of relentlessly over-the-top choreography to a deadly patchwork of music by Liszt — is that the company’s flame burns bright even in unworthy repertory. Review: Royal Ballet comes to L.A. for the first time in years with ‘Mayerling’ 2019-07-07T04:00:00Z He studied piano at the prestigious Liszt Academy under Bela Bartok, took art classes and learned multiple languages. George Rosenkranz, the chemist who changed the world with ‘the pill,’ dies at 102 2019-06-27T04:00:00Z And these for an old-fashioned Lied recital on the day before Liszt’s 210th birthday. Review: After cancellations in Europe, tenor Jonas Kaufmann brings his 'poison' to the Broad Stage 2021-10-24T04:00:00Z Lugubrious Liszt is channeled to ferry souls across the River Styx. Review: Thomas Adès and Nico Muhly, with a Natalie Portman assist 2019-05-13T04:00:00Z Here, he’ll play a delectable program of Liszt, Schumann and Schubert — catnip for keyboard fans. Look Ahead: The hottest Seattle events for May 2019 2019-04-26T04:00:00Z She later was a Fulbright fellow at the Liszt Academy in Budapest. Charity Tillemann-Dick, operatic soprano who drew life and music from transplanted lungs, dies at 35 2019-04-24T04:00:00Z Gerstein is a heavyweight performer, having conquered Liszt’s monstrously difficult Transcendental Études. The Concerto Challenge 2019-03-18T04:00:00Z There was more Liszt, Richard Strauss’ “Nichts” and sugary Viennese operetta sending us home humming, the poison two hours earlier seeming to have been nothing more than a placebo. Review: After cancellations in Europe, tenor Jonas Kaufmann brings his 'poison' to the Broad Stage 2021-10-24T04:00:00Z “I don’t get many visitors here,” she admits, as if welcoming Frances to the Bates Motel, before sitting down to play Liszt’s “Liebestraum.” The Genius of Julianne Moore in “Gloria Bell” 2019-03-01T05:00:00Z Walker, a professor emeritus at McMaster University in Canada, is best known for his triumphant multi-volume biography of Franz Liszt, on which he worked for a quarter-century. Review | Chopin: dismissive, anti-Semitic and a ‘poet of sweet sound’ 2019-01-25T05:00:00Z The opera’s characters are turned into Wagner himself, Liszt and other notables in Wagner’s circle as it examines, with a miraculously deep yet light, sensitive and often funny touch, the composer’s anti-Semitism. Best in classical 2018: The musicians who spread joy, justice and compassion when the world needed it 2018-12-13T05:00:00Z While it’s best known as an outlet for up-and-coming Austrian classical musicians — a few of whom might perform works by Mozart, Liszt and Schumann — the schedule is far more diverse than you might expect. Hidden inside Washington’s embassies: A world of fun (and free) stuff to do 2018-11-28T05:00:00Z The highly regarded pianist Hough is the evening’s soloist, in the mighty Liszt Piano Concerto No. 1. Everything you need to know about the hottest tickets in town: Seattle events for November 2018 2018-10-26T04:00:00Z In 2003, Mr. Hokanson released a new recording called “Character Pieces of the Nineteenth Century,” demonstrating his fluent technique and interpretive skill in works of considerable difficulty by Liszt, Brahms and others. Randolph Hokanson, pianist and UW professor emeritus, dies at 103 2018-10-20T04:00:00Z Even for those of us who don’t particularly like most of Liszt’s music, Walker proved such a compelling storyteller and advocate that we would brighten when a new installation was set to arrive. Review | Chopin: dismissive, anti-Semitic and a ‘poet of sweet sound’ 2019-01-25T05:00:00Z Berlioz, Verdi, and Liszt hailed the opera as a masterpiece. The Dark, Prophetic Vision of Giacomo Meyerbeer 2018-10-15T04:00:00Z I played the Liszt E-flat Piano Concerto at a Young People’s Concert in the fall of 1962 and got to substitute for Glenn Gould in January 1963 with the same work. Memories of Bernstein: What Lenny means to me, by Joshua Bell, André Watts, Marin Alsop and more 2018-08-24T04:00:00Z In the rehearsal room of the Staatskapelle Weimar orchestra, which the Hungarian-born Liszt conducted for 16 years from 1842, the musicians are practising ahead of the work’s official world premiere on Sunday evening. 'It was beautiful, lyrical': lost Liszt opera to premiere in Germany 2018-08-17T04:00:00Z The library is also showcasing Bernstein as a conductor with a screening May 12 of him conducting Mahler and Liszt, and a lecture June 6 about the physicality of his conducting. Leonard Bernstein shaped American music. Here’s how to celebrate him around D.C. 2018-05-01T04:00:00Z Levit based his initial phrases on Liszt's transcription then segued into his own, lyrical improvisations. EU anthem played at Proms' first night - BBC News 2017-07-14T04:00:00Z I saw the pianist Kirill Gerstein play an ambitious and bewitching program consisting entirely of études: Liszt’s Transcendental twelve, three by Scriabin, two by Ligeti, and several Gershwin tunes arranged by Earl Wild. Germany’s New Concert Temples 2017-05-15T04:00:00Z When I arrived in New York to sub for Gould, Bernstein told me we would be recording the Liszt concerto that Sunday. Memories of Bernstein: What Lenny means to me, by Joshua Bell, André Watts, Marin Alsop and more 2018-08-24T04:00:00Z “The good thing about Liszt is that he lets you get on with it,” he says. 'It was beautiful, lyrical': lost Liszt opera to premiere in Germany 2018-08-17T04:00:00Z The first classical piece I heard as a child was Liszt’s “Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2.” Pianist Lang Lang’s ‘Tom and Jerry’ Moment That Led to Carnegie Hall 2016-10-11T04:00:00Z Classical piano concert Tzu-yi Chen interprets music by Tchaikovsky and Liszt. Going Out Guide for the District of Columbia, Sept. 1-7, 2016 2016-08-30T04:00:00Z Before he settled on Beethoven, he considered other famous musicians who happened to have impressive hair: Leonard Bernstein, Luciano Pavarotti, Frédéric Chopin, Franz Liszt, even Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. A Grand Rendition of Beethoven. It Takes Up a Million Square Feet, In Fact. 2016-06-19T04:00:00Z |
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