Liszt: The Complete Piano Music (99 CD boxset)
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Liszt: The Complete Piano Music (99 CD boxset)
Leslie Howard (piano)
[ Hyperion Complete Liszt Edition / 99 CD Box Set ]
Release Date: Tuesday 1 March 2011
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'Liszt, one of music's greatest innovators, tends to be known by a tiny fraction of his work. Here's a chance to see the fuller picture' (The Guardian)
"Howard brings an archivist's rigour and a high priest's fervour to this astonishing project."
(MusicWeb April 2011)
'Liszt, one of music's greatest innovators, tends to be known by a tiny fraction of his work. Here's a chance to see the fuller picture' (The Guardian)
Leslie Howard's recordings of Liszt's complete piano music, on 99 CDs, is one of the monumental achievements in the history of recorded music. Remarkable as much for its musicological research and scholarly rigour as for Howard's Herculean piano playing, this survey remains invaluable to serious lovers of Liszt.
Every known note of Liszt's piano music has been recorded and is included here: Leslie Howard's 57 original volumes plus the further 3 supplements.
GUINNESS WORLD RECORD for the world's largest recording series by a solo artist.
Tracks:
CDs 1-6 Études & early works
CDs 7-19 Major original compositions
CDs 20-29 Dances, marches, transcriptions of Liszt's own works
CDs 30-36 Pieces on national themes
CDs 37-49 Operatic fantasies, transcriptions & paraphrases
CDs 50-61 Concert transcriptions
CDs 62-69 Beethoven transcriptions
CDs 70-79 Schubert transcriptions
CDs 80-94 Rare works, new discoveries
CDs 95-98 Music for piano & orchestra + bonus disc
