Liszt: the most beautiful piano music
Franz Liszt is a true hero of the keyboard. Himself a superb pianist, he understood the instrument intimately, its capabilities and its vivid sound world, and he wrote stunning music for the piano which reflects both his own towering pianistic ability and his appreciation of the instrument.
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Liszt's piano music encompasses a broad range of emotions and characters from high romanticism to intimate prayers and meditations, and evocative "sound postcards" inspired by his travels in Switzerland and Italy. The play of water and light is exquisitely captured in 'Les jeux d’eaux a la Villa d’Este', while Schubert’s eponymous Trout darts joyfully through the sparkling stream in Liszt’s wonderful transcription.