Guest Conductor Dennis Russell Davies continued his mini-tenure with the Seattle Symphony this week with an interesting set of pieces by Franz Liszt, Franz Schubert and both together. We had Liszt for ...

After hearing Franz Liszt play the piano, the famous conductor Sir Charles Hallé remarked: “Such marvels of executive skill and power, I could never have imagined.” Liszt was perhaps the first “rock ...

SPRINGFIELD - Liszt, Faust, Mephistopheles and the augmented triad took center stage Saturday evening as the Springfield Symphony Orchestra opened its 66th season before an enthusiastic audience of ...

"I will be satisfied if I stand on the level of an intelligent engraver or the conscientious translator," Franz Liszt wrote of his Beethoven piano transcriptions, which will be presented at the ...

At the end of Franz Liszt’s 50-minute “Dante” Symphony, a chorus of women’s voices floated down from the highest reaches of Music Hall. That moment had a mystical, and perhaps on this Halloween ...

SPRINGFIELD — It’s not every day that you hear Franz Liszt’s two piano concertos played live back to back by the same artist. In fact, it’s virtually unheard of. Naturally many of the world’s great ...

The conductor Susanna Mälkki led a program centered on Ligeti’s Piano Concerto, propelled by the soloist Pierre-Laurent Aimard. By Oussama Zahr A selection from Hyperion’s now-streaming catalog, the ...

One was a devilishly handsome libertine who broke hearts and battered keyboards across Europe -- then joined the church. The other spent most of his life trying to navigate the razor-thin line between ...