In the days of Strauss waltzes and the musical “grand manner.” every aspiring pianist wanted to be apprenticed to the grey-maned old thunderer, Franz Liszt. Not all of them made it ; one who did was a ...

In 1841, a strange phenomenon occurred in Berlin. People were becoming manically frenzied at performances by classical music composer Franz Liszt. The events were similar to how fans in the 21st ...

On his latest album Liszt: Via Crucis & Solo Piano Works for Sony Classical, Norwegian pianist Leif Ove Andsnes unveils the often-forgotten side of the famed virtuoso Franz Liszt - the sacred music ...

PARIS.- With a growth of more than 4 percent to 13,000 visitors in 6 days, the 26th Salon du Dessin proved to be a great success.

Each year on November 1 and 2, Filipinos visit their departed loved ones in memorial gardens and cemeteries. The respect for and veneration of the dead is an old practice of humanity; all cultures of ...

Ten years into their career, the French band Phoenix had refined their pop skills by referencing two great composers. The sophistication of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart is juxtaposed with the flash of ...

When a recital programme includes two fiendishly demanding piano sonatas, you can expect the soloist to both have the technical chops and the musical stamina to pull it off. In a refreshingly unshowy, ...

From finger-tangling piano études to full-bodied symphonic poems, here are the very best pieces of music by 19th-century Hungarian composer, Franz Liszt. One of the most prominent musical figures in ...

My high-school piano teacher, Denning Barnes, liked to assign me pieces that I had no hope of being able to play. The idea was to experience the music from within, however pitiful the results. One day ...

Pianistic flair and technical brilliance are the hallmarks of this winning record, in which Hamilton delivers Liszt’s transcriptions of works by Schubert, Wagner and others In old age, as Kenneth ...

From practice rooms to concert halls, Franz Liszt's Transcendental Etudes present pianists with musical and technical hurdles that result in magical performances. Xiangyu Zhao is a composer, pianist ...