Els Biesemans's newest CD brings multiple pleasures. There are the joys of hearing Liszt's keyboard transcriptions of 12 of the 24 songs of Schubert's Winterreise. There are the songs by Mendelssohn ...

Piano reductions of orchestral and vocal scores are a tradition meeting two ends. First, for the transcriber to show off his arrangement and performance abilities. Franz Liszt made a cottage industry ...

Pianistic flair and technical brilliance are the hallmarks of this winning record, in which Hamilton delivers Liszt’s transcriptions of works by Schubert, Wagner and others In old age, as Kenneth ...

A rare musical treat is in store when pianist Frederic Chiu performs the Liszt transcription of Beethoven's Symphony No. 7 at the opening of the Music in the Meetinghouse annual concert series at ...

Tarantelle di bravura d'après la tarantella de La muette de Portici (Auber's Masaniello) Wai Yin Wong, Piano Franz Liszt, Composer (I) Lombardi (Verdi) Salve Maria de Jérusalem Franz Liszt, Composer ...

Instrumental recitals are hardly the vogue these days. Piano recitals, once the mainstay of the classical-music business, are now an endangered species. And among the restricted number of piano ...

Completism gone mad? 7,255 minutes 25 seconds of Liszt – carefully described as "every known note" of his piano music, since forgotten manuscripts still turn up in sale rooms – should be enough for ...

In his new album, the brilliant virtuoso pianist turns a neglected musical form into something thrilling Ivan Hewett is The Telegraph’s Classical Music Critic and an author whose works include Music: ...

The first thing that strikes you is the dry, unsympathetic piano sound, admittedly better on the Blu-ray film version of the recital than on the CD. Perhaps – to quote the most irritating booklet of ...

I find myself almost awash at the moment with new and recent CDs that, to some extent and one way or another, feature arrangements or transcriptions of a variety of pieces of music. A few examples to ...