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Liszt Complete Solo Piano Music
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Liszt Complete Music for Solo Piano: New Discoveries 3
Romancero espagnol, Trois Chansons, Two further pieces from Christus, Wilde Jagd – Scherzo, Album-Leaves, and several first and second thoughts.
Leslie Howard (piano)
These CDs...amount to something more than the latest necessary purchase for completists: indeed this latest batch of previously unknown or long-forgotten items assembles into a pleasingly comprehensive... —
Awards:
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Gramophone Magazine, March 2011, Editor's Choice
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He homes in on the Hungarian melodies and evocations and locates the love and pride that Liszt lavished on them —
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A very good pianist, who understands the Lisztian idiom and presents it with great effectiveness —
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Liszt Complete Music for Solo Piano 27: Fantasies, paraphrases and transcriptions of National Songs and Anthems
Leslie Howard (piano)
An entertaining programme ... providing the perfect vehicle for Leslie Howard's enthusiastic, colourful playing. His scholarship, as revealed in the liner notes, is remarkable, the recording... —
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His idiomatic grasp and utter reliability remain as admirable as in earlier instalments. Excellent sonics and informative notes by the performer —
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Gorgeous stuff! —
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Outstanding' —
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In this first recording of the concert version of the Douze Grandes Etudes (1837), Leslie Howard brings his customary technical wizardry to bear on this outrageously difficult music in an arresting... —
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Howard's performances are quite marvellous: scrupulously prepared and enlightened by this performer's high degree of spontaneity. Hyperion's recording captures every nuance —
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All the music on these two well-filled discs is recorded here for the first time. Absorbing for the scholar specialist —
