In this vast, single-movement composition, Franz Liszt achieved a synthesis of symphonic and sonata forms that has never been surpassed for its cogency, scope and imagination. He managed this in a ...

Clara Schumann, the wife of the great composer Robert Schumann, wrote in her diary on May 25, 1854: Liszt sent Robert today a sonata dedicated to him and several other things with a friendly letter to ...

I received several robust responses to my recent CD review of Liszt performances by Jorge Bolet, in which I asserted that in several respects he could not be rivalled. “Oh yeah,” was the tenor of the ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by For his new album, Benjamin Grosvenor delved into historical recordings of the daunting Sonata in B minor. By David Allen How do the great musicians ...

The latest release from the British pianist Daniel Grimwood explores music by Robert and Clara Schumann and Liszt, using an exquisite 1856 piano from Érard’s London factory. Now in the collection of ...

Neither new issue of the B minor Sonata can be ranked with the listed comparisons, nor indeed very close to them. Elisabeth Leonskaja offers a solid middle-of-the-road account without any conspicuous ...

Meany Theater was crammed with piano fans on Wednesday evening, all of them eager to hear the latest keyboard sensation — Yundi Li, the young pianist from Seattle’s sister city in China, Chongqing.

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, ...

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Music researcher and writer Katy Hamilton chooses her favourite recording of Liszt's Sonata in B minor. When Clara Schumann described Liszt's 1854 Piano Sonata in B minor as 'truly terrible' it ...