Liszt the Virtuoso
Donald Macleod surveys the range of Liszt's piano music, from the Hungarian Rhapsody No 2 to the work which Wagner called 'great, lovable, deep, and noble' - the Sonata in B minor.
Donald Macleod surveys the range of Liszt's piano music, from the Second Hungarian Rhapsody to the work which Wagner called 'great, lovable, deep, and noble' - the Sonata in B minor.
Preludio No 1 in (Douze etudes d'execution transcendante, S139)
Douze etudes d'execution transcendante, S139 (No 10 in F minor; No 5 in B flat; No 8 in C minor)
Boris Berezovsky (piano)
Hungarian Rhapsody No 2 in C sharp minor, S244
Roberto Szidon (piano)
Sonata in B minor for piano, S178
Alfred Brendel (piano).
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- Mon 23 Jun 200812:00BBC Radio 3
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