About ten years ago the British label Hyperion Records began a massive recording project: the complete solo piano music of Franz Liszt, an endeavor that would require eighty or more compact discs. This effort would include all versions of Liszt's transcriptions, paraphrases, fantasies, and original compositions. Thus far, the pianist chosen for the project, Leslie Howard (who is President of the British Liszt Society), has reached volume 45 (some issues contain multiple discs) and is thus defying those skeptics who said at ...
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About ten years ago the British label Hyperion Records began a massive recording project: the complete solo piano music of Franz Liszt, an endeavor that would require eighty or more compact discs. This effort would include all versions of Liszt's transcriptions, paraphrases, fantasies, and original compositions. Thus far, the pianist chosen for the project, Leslie Howard (who is President of the British Liszt Society), has reached volume 45 (some issues contain multiple discs) and is thus defying those skeptics who said at the outset he'd never complete the seemingly impossible task. Howard's notices have generally been positive, too. Little more than two years ago the budget label Naxos announced it would launch the same project, but with an arsenal of twenty-five or more pianists that would include Oxana Yablonskaya, Jeno Jando, Philip Thomson, William Wolfram, and Arnaldo Cohen, winner of the 1972 Busoni Piano Competition.This is my first exposure to Cohen, and on the basis of these performances, I...
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