Liszt: The complete music for solo piano, Vol. 42 - Liszt at the Opera IV

With this issue – No 42 in Leslie Howard's marathon traversal of Liszt's solo piano music – we join Liszt on his fourth 2-CD trip to the opera house to hear music familiar and unfamiliar by Mozart, Meyerbeer, Bellini, Donizetti, Verdi, Auber, Raff and Wagner. Over half of the music (93 minutes of the total 152) has never been recorded before.

All of the music on this album is also available as part of the specially priced box set Liszt: Complete Piano Music: 'Almost any way you choose to look at it, this is a staggering achievement … the grand scope of this project gives us the chance, as listeners, to experience the almost incomprehensible breadth and depth of Liszt's imagination' (International Record Review).

CDA67101/2  152 minutes 2 seconds (2 discs)
‘A major revelation of nineteenth-century ideas and techniques. There is musical nourishment here as well as entertainment’ (Gramophone)
‘This new two-CD set is as fascinating as any and contains many recordings which are thought to be first, and which are probably the first performances at all for more than 100 years. A pair of discs ...
'Obras brillantes, repletas de fuerza y apasionamiento, pero portadoras de un profundo sentido poético que ahora son interpretadas por un magistral Leslie Howard' (La Revista Integral)