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 ...

Guest Conductor Dennis Russell Davies continued his mini-tenure with the Seattle Symphony this week with an interesting set of pieces by Franz Liszt, Franz Schubert and both together. We had Liszt for ...

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, ...

World-acclaimed pianist Vitaly Pisarenko returns to Cyprus to mark the opening of the Pharos Arts Foundation 2026 season with a special recital for Nicosia’s music scene. Masterpieces from composers ...