Unsettling meditations on the passing of life, Wagner and western tonality, the music of Liszt’s old age is like nothing else of its time. Cédric Tiberghien proves wholly attuned to its unconventional demands in a programme concluding with the third and last of the Années de pèlerinage.
‘Tiberghien is once again consummately subtle, and he misses no opportunity for virtuoso display where the opportunity arises—as in the Bagatelle sans tonalité … and the fourth Mephisto Waltz. Ge ...
BBC Music Magazine
‘I confess I hadn’t previously thought of the French pianist Cédric Tiberghien as a Lisztian, but I do now … Tiberghien evokes the play of the waters within Liszt’s virtuosic writing with impress ...
BBC Music Magazine‘I confess I hadn’t previously thought of the French pianist Cédric Tiberghien as a Lisztian, but I do now … Tiberghien evokes the play of the waters within Liszt’s virtuosic writing with impress ...