Liszt: The complete music for solo piano, Vol. 57 - Hungarian Rhapsodies

Liszt—The Final Frontier

Phew! We've made it! It's all over! This final volume (2 discs) of all 19 Hungarian Rhapsodies brings to an end Leslie Howard's marathon traversal of Liszt's complete music for solo piano on 95 CDs. The series has taken almost 14 years to record. There are 1377 tracks altogether, with a total duration of over 117 hours—that is nearly five days' continuous playing time. Leslie has played over 12 miles of music from 16,000 pages which we estimate totals something between 9 and 10 million notes! (The retail price per note works out at something like 0.0000013p.)

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).

CDA67418/9  147 minutes 16 seconds (2 discs)
‘He homes in on the Hungarian melodies and evocations and locates the love and pride that Liszt lavished on them’ (BBC Music Magazine)
‘This splendid set represents a high artistic peak within Leslie Howard's distinguished survey’ (The Penguin Guide to Compact Discs)