Liszt: Sonata in B minor; Fantasy and Fugue on B-A-C-H, etc - review

Marc-André Hamelin(Hyperion)Perhaps because the company has Leslie Howard's complete Liszt edition already in its catalogue, Marc-André Hamelin has previously recorded relatively little Liszt for Hyperion, just a recital disc from the mid-1990s and a collection of Paganini studies and Schubert transcriptions. Yet as this contribution to the bicentenary releases demonstrates, he is potentially an outstanding interpreter of the composer, and a refreshingly cool antidote to those pianists who tre...

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