‘This, incredibly, is the 100th CD of Liszt’s music for solo piano recorded by the indefatigable Leslie Howard for Hyperion … a superbly played (and researched) addition to this extraordinary artist’s legacy’ (Gramophone)

‘2018 will go down as the year when not only did cricketer Alastair Cook finish his Test career with a century, but Leslie Howard made his 100th disc of Liszt piano music … Howard's mix of sensitivity and virtuosity is matched by the beautiful tone of the Potton Hall Steinway’ (BBC Music Magazine)

‘How does Leslie Howard keep finding these pieces? The most substantial here is the original Hungarian Rhapsody No 23, which already sounds like a polished work. With his rounded, penetrating tone, Howard always underlines the beauty of the music, playing the Rhapsody as a fully fledged masterpiece.’ (Pianist)

‘Leslie Howard's Liszt edition—a monumental feat of perseverance, of which the present release, Rêves et fantaisies, is the hundredth initiative—began to hit our shelves in the late-eighties. Like Naxos's (multi-artist) Liszt project, it's never going to be the last word on the subject (how could it be) but as an édition intégrale, responsibly documented and bibliographically astute, it sets the bar high, a treasure-trove for dipping into and referencing forgotten byways … the gem of the [present] collection, beautifully sensitive, is the first version of the pedal-pointed Danse des sylphes from Berlioz's Faust, from a copyist's manuscript in Weimar prepared for publication, and with Liszt's autograph markings, but then dropped (it misses the introduction and coda of the definitive 1863 text). The ambience of the room and Ben Connellan's sympathetic engineering delicately suspend tone-painting and hour’ (Classical Source)