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Complete Piano Music: Arabesques Leslie Howard (piano) [ Hyperion Complete Liszt Edition Vol 35 / CD - released 1/Feb/2011 ] "I constantly admired his near orchestral range of sonority - his strength in grandiloquence and his hypnotic sustaining power in intimacy. Everything is played with total conviction" (Gramophone) |
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Liszt: Complete Piano Music: Bunte Reihe, S484 Leslie Howard (piano) [ Hyperion Complete Liszt Edition Vol 16 / CD - released 1/Feb/2011 ] "Brilliant, and apart from its value as Liszt documentation the issue is an entertaining curiosity" (Gramophone) |
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Liszt: Complete Piano Music: Christmas Tree & Via Crucis Leslie Howard, piano [ Hyperion Complete Liszt Edition Vol 8 / CD - released 1/Feb/2011 ] "This CD was a revelation - this is great music played with impeccable artistry and flawlessly recorded, one of the best solo piano records I've heard in the past ten years." (CD Review) |
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Complete Piano Music: Christus, St Elisabeth & St Stanislaus Leslie Howard (piano) [ Hyperion Complete Liszt Edition Vol 14 / CD - released 1/Feb/2011 ] 'Another pithy release in what is fast looming as one of the most imposing recording landmarks of the century' (Fanfare, USA) |
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Complete Piano Music: Dances and Marches Leslie Howard (piano) [ Hyperion Complete Liszt Edition Vol 28 / 2 CD - released 1/Feb/2011 ] "A distinguished addition to one of the most important recording projects of the CD era" (Fanfare) |
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Liszt: Complete Piano Music: Excelsior! Leslie Howard (piano) [ Hyperion Complete Liszt Edition Vol 36 / CD - released 1/Feb/2011 ] "I constantly admired his near-orchestral range of sonority - his strength in grandiloquence and his hypnotic sustaining power in intimacy. Everything is played with total conviction" (Gramophone) |
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Complete Piano Music: Fantasies, paraphrases and transcriptions of National Songs and Anthems Leslie Howard (piano) [ Hyperion Complete Liszt Edition Vol 27 / CD - released 1/Feb/2011 ] "An entertaining programme ... providing the perfect vehicle for Leslie Howard's enthusiastic, colourful playing. His scholarship, as revealed in the liner notes, is remarkable, the recording first class" (CD Review) |
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Complete Piano Music: Magyar Dalok & Magyar Rapszódiák Leslie Howard (piano) [ Hyperion Complete Liszt Edition Vol 29 / 2 CD - released 1/Feb/2011 ] "Indispensable ... a vast amount to enjoy" (Gramophone) |
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Complete Piano Music: Soirees Musicales & Soirees Italiennes Leslie Howard (piano) [ Hyperion Complete Liszt Edition Vol 21 / CD - released 1/Feb/2011 ] "There's much to enjoy in the playing itself, especially in simpler contexts when gondolas glide through calm waters, or lovers dream, or shepherds dance. Melody, so important throughout, is nicely sung." (The Gramophone Classical Music Guide) |
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Complete Piano Music: The Canticle of the Sun Leslie Howard (piano) [ Hyperion Complete Liszt Edition Vol 25 / CD - released 1/Feb/2011 ] "As choice as anything he's yet given us and the same goes for the recording" (Gramophone) |
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Complete Piano Music: The Hexaméron Leslie Howard (piano) [ Hyperion Liszt Edition Vol 10 / CD - released 1/Feb/2011 ] "Howard's steel-fingered pianistic athleticism is backed by strong musical intuition and there seems no limit to his technical prowess. The recorded sound is a banquet for the ears. Highly recommended" (American Record Guide) |
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Complete Piano Music: The Schubert Transcriptions 1 Leslie Howard (piano) [ Hyperion Complete Liszt Edition Vol 31 / 3 CD Box Set - released 1/Feb/2011 ] "His idiomatic grasp and utter reliability remain as admirable as in earlier instalments. Excellent sonics and informative notes by the performer" (American Music Guide) |
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Complete Piano Music: The Schubert Transcriptions 2 Leslie Howard (piano) [ Hyperion Complete Liszt Edition Vol 32 / 3 CD Box Set - released 1/Feb/2011 ] "His idiomatic grasp and utter reliability remain as admirable as in earlier instalments. Excellent sonics and informative notes by the performer" (American Music Guide) |
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Complete Piano Music: The Schubert Transcriptions 3 Leslie Howard (piano) [ Hyperion Complete Liszt Edition Vol 33 / 3 CD Box Set - released 1/Feb/2011 ] "His idiomatic grasp and utter reliability remain as admirable as in earlier instalments. Excellent sonics and informative notes by the performer" (American Record Guide) |
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Complete Piano Music: The Young Liszt Leslie Howard (piano) [ Hyperion Complete Liszt Edition Vol 26 / 2 CD - released 1/Feb/2011 ] "Another abundant, revelatory, superb instalment in what is looming as perhaps the most adventurous, most consistently realized, and grandest project in recording history" (Fanfare) |
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Complete Piano Music: The Late Pieces Leslie Howard (piano) [ Hyperion Complete Liszt Edition Vol 11 / CD - released 1/Feb/2011 ] 'Howard's performances are quite marvellous: scrupulously prepared and enlightened by this performer's high degree of spontaneity. Hyperion's recording captures every nuance' - CDReview |
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Complete Piano Music: Liszt at the Opera Vol II Leslie Howard (piano) [ Hyperion Complete Liszt Edition Vol 17 / 2 CD - released 10/Jan/2006 ] 'There are riches galore here … Howard, as with every volume so far, brings to the recording studio the excitement of a live performance while never neglecting or unduly emphasising the poetry and sentiment' (CDReview) |
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Complete Piano Music: Liszt at the Theatre Leslie Howard (piano) [ Hyperion Complete Liszt Edition Vol 18 / CD - released 1/Feb/2011 ] 'Another superbly produced instalment of this awesome endeavour. Enthusiastically recommended' (Fanfare, USA) |
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Complete Piano Music: Liebestraume and the Songbooks Leslie Howard (piano) [ Hyperion Complete Liszt Edition Vol 19 / CD - released 1/Feb/2011 ] 'Among the most readily and revealingly appealing issues of Howard's stupendous enterprise. Enthusiastically recommended' (Fanfare, USA) |
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Complete Piano Music: Album d'un Voyageur and other pieces from Liszt's years of travel in France and Switzerland Leslie Howard, piano [ Hyperion Complete Liszt Edition Vol 20 / 2 CD - released 1/Feb/2011 ] 'This album is one of the supreme rewards of Howard's Liszt traversal. Sound is transparently immediate, and the artist's annotations guide one surely and elegantly through these amazing riches - which you must hear' (Fanfare, USA) |