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See Terms & Conditions for p&p rates. | |  | Byron Janis plays Liszt, Rachmaninov & Schumann
Byron Janis began his extraordinary career as Horowitz’s star pupil. | 
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| |  | Andrea Kauten plays Liszt
Liszt: | Totentanz, S126 for piano & orchestra Savaria Symphony Orchestra, Adam Medveczky Malédiction, S121 Op. 452 Savaria Symphony Orchestra, Adam Medveczky Les Préludes, symphonic poem No. 3, S97 Savaria Symphony Orchestra, Adam Medveczky Années de pèlerinage, 2ème année, Italie (7 pieces), S. 161 Hungarian Rhapsody, S244 No. 14 in F minor Fantasy on Hungarian Folk-tunes, S123 Savaria Symphony Orchestra, Adam Medveczky Mephisto Waltz No. 1 |
“Kauten’s accounts of the pieces making up the Italian-themed second year of Années de Pèlerinage are unusually bold and commanding. The three Petrarch Sonnets show her dreamier, more reflective side and the set ends with an emphatic, enjoyable assault on Liszt’s Hungarian Rhapsody no 14. A comprehensive Liszt greatest hits compilation, beautifully produced and well-annotated.” The Arts Desk, 25th August 2012 | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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| |  | Liszt: Piano Concertos 1 & 2, Totentanz & Hungarian Fantasy
No other pianist is as closely connected with the music of Franz Liszts as Georges Cziffra. The Hungarian-French virtuoso, who died in 1994, was one of the best Liszt interpreters of all time. His recording of the composer's two piano concertos together with other pieces for piano and orchestra are among the highlights of his discography. | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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| |  | Liszt: Favourite Pieces
Liszt: | Grande Étude de Paganini, S. 141 No. 3 'La Campanella' Romance oubliée, for piano, S. 527 Gnomenreigen, S145 No. 2 Un Sospiro from 3 Concert Studies, S144 No. 3 Rhapsodie espagnole, S254 Liebestraum, S541 No. 3 (Nocturne in A flat major) Mephisto Waltz No. 1 Consolation, S. 172 No. 3 in D flat major Rakoczi March, S242a/1 (first version, 1839/40) Nuages gris, S199 Valse oubliée No. 1, S.215/1 La leggierezza - Étude de concert No. 2, S144 La Lugubre Gondola II, S200 No. 2 Étude d'exécution transcendante d'après Paganini, S. 140 No. 6 Les Préludes, symphonic poem No. 3, S97 Totentanz, S126 for piano & orchestra Orpheus, symphonic poem No. 4, S98 Mazeppa, symphonic poem No. 6, S100 Piano Concerto No. 1 in E flat major, S124 |
Emanuel Ax, Jorge Bolet, van Cliburn, Barry Douglas, Vladimir Horowitz, Stephen Hough, Byron Janis, Evgeny Kissin, Arcadi Volodos, Andre Watts Berliner Philharmoniker, Boston Pops Orchestra, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, New York Philharmonic Orchestra, Philharmonia Orchestra, Leonard Bernstein, Arthur Fiedler, Zubin Mehta, Fritz Reiner, Esa-Pekka Salonen | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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| |  | Ruhr Piano Festival Edition Vol. 18
Vol. 18 of the highly enjoyable series of concerts from the Ruhr Piano Festival. This time featuring
the Bochumer Symphony Orchestra in some truly great romantic piano and orchestral music
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“Jablonski, whose credentials include having been voted best jazz drummer in Sweden at the age of seven (!), revels in its high jinks, and Ashkenazy and the orchestra just manage to hang on to his coat-tails... an exciting end to an admirably played and recorded disc.” Gramophone Magazine | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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| |  | Liszt: Piano Concertos
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| |  | Liszt Complete Music for Solo Piano 53a: Music for Piano & Orchestra 1
Liszt: | Piano Concerto No. 1 in E flat major, S124 Fantasia on a theme from Beethoven's 'Ruins of Athens', S122 Totentanz, S126 for piano & orchestra final version Grande fantaisie symphonique on themes from Berlioz's ‘Lelio', S120 Malédiction, S121 Op. 452 Piano Concerto No. 3 in E flat major, S125a, Op. post. Grand Solo de concert Hexaméron, S392 Polonaise brillante, S367 Hexaméron – Morceau de concert 'Grandes Variations de bravoure sur la marche des "Puritains" de Bellini', S365a |
This set and its companion (CDA67403/4) are perhaps the most important releases in Leslie Howard's complete survey of Liszt's piano music. In addition to such well known works as the mature Piano Concertos (two of the most popular works in the nineteenth-century Romantic repertoire) and the other lesser known but familiar pieces, several items here receive their first recordings; as a result of Leslie Howard's indefatigable research we can now hear orchestral versions of Hexaméron and the Grand Solo de concert for the first time. Also in new versions are the recently discovered Concerto in E flat, Op posth, and De Profundis. A re-examination of the manuscripts has led our pianist to make refinements to the published scores which provide a more accurate reflection of Liszt's intentions. All these issues and more are documented in Leslie Howard's characteristically thorough notes. “Exemplary, and superbly recorded” BBC Music Magazine “Hyperion's production, as always, is superb. For the Lisztian, this is indispensable” Fanfare “Howard's dedication is clear in all his playing here, with clear, crisp articulation vividly caught in finely balanced sound” The Guardian | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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With technique to burn but poetry at the fore, Jean-Yves Thibaudet's recordings of the two Liszt concertos have always held a special affection in many a music-lover's heart. They are reissued as per the original CD couplings - with the demonic Totentanz and the multi-coloured Hungarian Fantasy “Indeed, I have only praise. Each of the four works here is well characterized, and the typically Lisztian varying tempos are spot on, unrushed but never deliberate and always leading naturally from one to the next. Climactic passages are powerful, but the sound remains pleasant and avoids the crudity that can emerge from these scores in less sensitive hands” Gramophone Magazine | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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| |  | Liszt: The 2 Piano Concertos
In April of this year PentaTone released the debut album of exclusive artist Nareh Arghamanyan, born in Armenia who was admitted to the Vienna Conservatory at the age of 14 (youngest ever). This Rachmaninov recital was very well received. Classics today gave it a 10/10 and uses it as benchmark recording. This recording has already generated great reviews in the US. “These interpretations...display some obvious strengths: the technique of this young Armenian-born pianist is beautifully fluent, giving her playing a freedom that is not at all slick or perfunctory, and she also offers likeable, rounded tone and more than reasonable firepower. But you do also need the imagination to come up with individual things to say and there's too little evidence of this.” BBC Music Magazine, February 2013 *** “Here is playing of real poetic poetic allure bathed in a golden piano tone.” Gramophone Magazine, February 2013 | | | (also available to download from $10.50) | Usually despatched in 2 - 3 working days. (Available now to download.) |
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