Bargain-priced invitation into Liszt's Musical World
Gontroppo | Bathurst, NSW Australia | 07/19/2003
(5 out of 5 stars)
"Leslie Howard's complete recording of Liszt's Piano Music is surely one of the great musical feats of all time, but not many people would have the desire or time to listen to the whole set. So it is a great thrill that Hyperion has made a 2 disk sampler set available for the rest of us!
It is beautifully packaged, competitively priced and includes interesting notes about Liszt and the works included by the performer himself.Mr Howard has recorded 145 solo piano CDs, which includes the 95 CDs which make up the complete Liszt piano CDs. The set includes many well-known pieces, as well as some interesting ones you may not be familiar with.Highly recommended."
The best of Howard's Liszt
Daniel Brown | Richmond, VA United States | 11/11/2002
(5 out of 5 stars)
"This CD, while fulfilling the intent of covering every aspect of Liszt's piano music, also covers all of Leslie Howard's Liszt interpretations and pianistic style. Howard is one of my favorite pianists, and his best playing by far is on his recordings of the Liszt transcriptions of the Beethoven symphonies, which are not included here. However, anyone who wants to get into Liszt should buy this CD before they do anything else. It really is all-encompassing."