Liszt: Two Legendes - piano S175

"Budget-priced Naxos can afford to be more comprehensive and spread Liszt's organ music over two discs, and indeed, it's good to have St. Francis preaching to the birds, which works so well on the instrument, as well as the three Consolations, originally for piano...If you want the B-A-C-H Prelude and Fugue, the Evocation and Weinen, Klagen, Sorgen, Zagen, Naxos will do nicely." - Adrian Jack BBC Music Magazine August 2001

"He gives a grand, individual and highly charged account, obviously the result of a lot of hard thought." - Classic CD

"As his two previous Nimbus discs (3/95 and 7/95 – the latter including a fine performance of Liszt's Dante Sonata) show, Mark Anderson is a most musicianly pianist. His communicative ardour understandably made him an audience favourite at the 1993 Leeds Piano Competition and here, in this richly diverse programme, he again proves himself a born orator, declaiming Liszt's fantasy and nobility in generous-hearted fashion. At the same time all these performances (with the exception of the curiously elliptical and prophetic Vier kleine Klavierstücke which are played with a rapt concentration and intensity) have an off-the-cuff flavour with the spirit often engulfing the letter of the score." Bryce Morrison, Gramophone