CONTENTS
REGULAR FEATURES 6 LETTERS Your thoughts and comments
7 NEWS & NOTES Stephen Hough awarded a knighthood ••• New York Liszt Competition opens applications ••• Casio launches Wellness Hub
55 MASTERCLASS Leslie Howard undertakes a deep textual analysis of Liszt’s Dante Sonata
59 RETURNING TO THE PIANO III – Movements (Part 1)
63 SHEET MUSIC Nostalgie by Zygmunt Noskowski
70 READY FOR ACTION Yamaha’s new CFX concert grand
72 A MUSICAL MARRIAGE Brenda Luca Ogdon on her life with John
74-80 NEW RELEASES CDs and sheet music
82 MUSIC OF MY LIFE British pianist Mark Viner
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5 EDITORIAL Devotees and detractors
THE MAN 10 DIVINE DISCONTENT How Liszt’s artistry sprang from profound contradictions in his personality
12 ALL-EMBRACING SPIRIT We survey the rich heritage of contemporary accounts of Liszt
15 LISZT IN IMAGES Bringing Liszt’s portrait to life through technology
THE PERFORMER 17 DEFINING LISZT Six leading Liszt exponents explore the composer’s unique soundworld
22 PIANIST AS ACTOR Paul Roberts examines Liszt’s role as progenitor of the solo piano recital
27 CLASH OF THE TITANS What can we learn from Liszt’s famous ‘piano duel’ with Sigismond Thalberg?
REPERTOIRE 33 LIFT UP YOUR HEARTS Intimations of death and hope for eternal life in Années de pèlerinage
36 LISZT AND THE LIEDER Lyricism and virtuosity in the composer’s transcriptions of Schubert songs
40 EXPERIMENTS WITH FORM Alexander Ullman on how Liszt stretched the boundaries of Classical genres
RECORDINGS 42 LISTENER’S GUIDE Liszt’s Piano Concerto No 2 in A major
47 TOP 10 RECORDINGS Gramophone’s pick of the best Liszt piano albums
CODA 49 BOOKS Liszt’s obsession with fantasy
50 WHAT’S NOT TO LIKE? Jeremy Nicholas mounts a spirited defence against Liszt’s critics
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