This week’s Seattle Symphony program grew from a seed planted by famed Canadian pianist Marc-André Hamelin. “He wanted to play the ‘Wanderer Fantasy,’ and guest conductor Dennis Russell Davies decided ...

Els Biesemans's newest CD brings multiple pleasures. There are the joys of hearing Liszt's keyboard transcriptions of 12 of the 24 songs of Schubert's Winterreise. There are the songs by Mendelssohn ...

As part of our continuing series on Schubert’s “Der Erlkönig,” here is Yuja Wang performing Liszt’s transcription of the song. I take this opportunity to share her performance because, as it happens, ...

Maestro Michael Laus is exploring the relationship between the music of composers Franz Schubert and Franz Liszt with a piano recital at the Manoel Theatre on Saturday. The two composers had more than ...

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The concert piece, Franz Liszt’s E-flat Concerto, opened with a bracing call and response: a seven-note motif from the strings, answered by a rousing clarion from the horns and woodwinds. Then the ...

The Salzburg Festival has a few regular pianists, who give a recital every year. One of those pianists is Arcadi Volodos, born in the Soviet Union in 1972. (He has lived most of his life in the West.

The most poetic musician who ever lived? It’s hard to disagree with Liszt’s appraisal of Schubert, who, in his short life, used his astonishing gift for melodic and harmonic invention to create many ...

WORCESTER - A recital by pianist Khatia Buniatishvili in Tuckerman Hall on Friday evening was the last event in the stellar 2018-2019 Music Worcester season. Unfortunately, her program did not measure ...