Nelson Goerner – review

Wigmore Hall, LondonThere is something about much of Liszt's piano music that encourages an old-fashioned approach, even from a fastidiously stylish pianist such as Nelson Goerner. It is hard to imagine a work such as the B minor Ballade, which opened Goerner's all-Liszt programme, being played with the kind of forensic attention to detail that a pianist might apply to a work by Schumann or Chopin, for instance. In Liszt such as this, the gesture is everything, and Goerner projected the ballade'...

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