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LIszt: Complete Piano Music: Ballades, Legends and Polonaises Leslie Howard (piano) [ Hyperion Complete Liszt Edition Vol 2 / CD - released 1/Feb/2011 ] 'The sheer quantity of music on offer may be impressive but the quality of the playing is even more remarkable, warmly sympathetic and, where necessary, thrillingly bold and impassioned' (BBC Record Review) |
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Liszt: Complete Piano Music: Konzertsolo & Odes Funebres (Incls Fantasia and Fugue on BACH) Leslie Howard, piano [ Hyperion Complete Liszt Edition Vol 3 / CD - released 1/Feb/2011 ] This third release in the series of Liszt's complete piano music contains a mixture of the known and the unknown, and comprises some of Liszt's forays into larger forms (others are the Sonata, the Scherzo and March and the transcriptions). The first... |
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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: 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) |
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Complete Piano Music: The Beethoven Symphonies Leslie Howard (piano) [ Hyperion Complete Liszt Edition Vol 22 / 5 CD Box Set - released 1/Feb/2011 ] 'This really is a pretty phenomenal achievement. I urge Lisztians to hear it, and even those who collect the proper versions of the Beethoven Symphonies - it is a marvellous way of hearing them afresh' (Gramophone) |
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Complete Piano Music: Beethoven and Hummel Septets Leslie Howard (piano) [ Hyperion Complete Liszt Edition Vol 24 / 2 CD - released 1/Feb/2011 ] 'Howard joue tout cela avec beaucoup de raffinement et un vrai sens du châtoiement sonore. De belles découvertes' (Répertoire, France) |
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Complete Piano Music: Tanzmomente Leslie Howard (piano) [ Hyperion Complete Liszt Edition Vol 37 / CD - released 1/Feb/2011 ] 'Vol 37 is a record not only to which lovers of Liszt can return, but which should give pleasure to those who may never have heard of some of the composers transcribed but enjoy the minor, overgrown paths of the nineteenth century' (Gramophone) |
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Complete Piano Music: Les Preludes. Concert etudes & Episodes from Lenau's Faust Leslie Howard (piano) [ Hyperion Complete Liszt Edition Vol 38 / CD - released 1/Feb/2011 ] 'A rewarding collection, very well played and recorded' (The Penguin Guide to Compact Discs) |
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Complete Piano Music: Transcendental Studies (Incls Etudes d'exacution transcendente, S139) Leslie Howard, piano [ Hyperion Complete Liszt Edition Vol 4 / CD - released 1/Feb/2011 ] 'Howard is obviously the right man for tackling a complete edition of Liszt's piano music (CDReview) |