Browse: CD, Liszt (composer)

Trifonov’s approach is to search out through rounded and constantly beautiful piano tone the music’s pre-Debussyian side – a legitimate take on Liszt’s radical streak, keeping any risk of meretricious... — BBC Music Magazine, November 2016, More…

It is indeed extraordinary… Liszt’s fluid treatment of bel canto structures reveals an assured musical dramatist at work… He makes no concessions to his singers, though, and his vocal writing... — Gramophone Magazine, February 2019 More…

They are all works requiring formidable technical ability, and pianist Alexander Melnikov brings clarity of touch and virtuoso flair to them all, transferring as if effortlessly from instrument... — BBC Music Magazine, May 2018, More…

one of the most individual things about this stunning debut by Benjamin Grosvenor is his pervasive sense of balance and his unerring blend of Classical restraint and Romantic ardour...He is a... — BBC Music Magazine, October 2011, More…

The way Levit has formed this programme is extraordinarily effective. The Brahms reworking for left hand of Bach’s D minor violin Chaconne is a probing, introverted affair, and how effectively... — Gramophone Magazine, November 2018 More…

This is playing in the grand manner. From the start of First Concerto you're aware of a consciously leonine approach. Zimerman even deliberately takes risks in a few technically perilous places... — Gramophone Classical Music Guide, 2010 More…

The quieter moments of these songs show Allan Clayton’s voice at its best: smooth, tender and altogether alluring…By and large his diction is good…overall the performances are alive to the drama... — BBC Music Magazine, January 2019, More…

These two like-minded musicians manage to bring to these much-recorded works not merely thrilling virtuosity and lyrical depth but a Mendelssohnian lightness of touch where needed...Litton, himself... — Classic FM Magazine, February 2012, More…

Piemontesi’s pianism can hold its own alongside anyone’s in terms of absolute technical facility. He also has a special affinity with the lyrical directness in Liszt’s idiom…You can’t really... — BBC Music Magazine, August 2018, More…