Pianist Lang Lang honors his idol on the new album 'Liszt: My Piano Hero.' When you think of rock n' roll, Franz Liszt might not be the first name that comes to mind. But the classical pianist, born ...

Liszt, who had worked as a touring concert pianist since age 12, refashioned himself with intensified and longer hours of practice and emerged in rare fighting form, a Colossus of the keyboard. Then ...

Tomorrow is the 200th birthday of composer and pianist Franz Liszt. Morning Edition's music commentator Miles Hoffman thinks there are plenty of reasons to celebrate. "This is a man who lived an ...

Sardanapalo to premiere in Germany after Cambridge academic translates and deciphers neglected sketchbook As soprano Joyce El-Khoury launches into a soaring F-major aria and the orchestra follows with ...

Franz Liszt invented the whole concept of the pianist as star: a virtuoso who takes centre stage for an entire evening, playing in profile to a concentrated, adoring, enraptured audience. In fact, his ...

Lang Lang’s latest CD, one of many releases celebrating the 200th anniversary of Franz Liszt’s birth on Oct. 22, 1811, is titled “Liszt, My Piano Hero.” Of course Liszt would be a hero of the ...

The women who screamed and swooned for the 19th Century piano virtuoso Franz Liszt set the pattern for fans in our own time – from The Beatles to Justin Bieber. The spectacle of young women shrieking, ...

Clara Schumann, the wife of the great composer Robert Schumann, wrote in her diary on 25 May 1854: Liszt sent Robert today a sonata dedicated to him and several other things with a friendly letter to ...

Marking the bicentenary of Liszt's birth, Louise Fryer presents a day of concerts from across the European Broadcasting Union. Music from London, Raiding, Budapest and Bayreuth. Show more Radio 3 ...

Get the latest entertainment news with our free Culture newsletter The first 12 days of January on BBC Radio 3 are going to feature Mozart, back-to-back. If the programmers were braver, they would ...

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