‘Benjamin Grosvenor conjures a brand of full and rounded keyboard sonority different from that of many of his contemporaries, and recalls the giants of an earlier generation’ (BBC Music Magazine)

'This 99 CD box, from the hands of a master, is without question the main event of Liszt's centenary year' (The Independent)

'Leslie Howard, with his gigantic 99-CD box set on Hyperion, has surely served up the biggest birthday cake any composer could wish for. Of all the Liszt performers … Howard often offers the most musical version of any given Liszt piece … do treat yourself to this monumental offering' (Pianist)

'La somme est inestimable … on ne pourra nulle part prendre Leslie Howard en défaut de technique ou de goût … sa constance, son intelligence, son brio souple cimentent un monument vertigineux, qui contribuera peut-être à évincer une bonne partie des idées reçues' (Diapason, France)

'Howard certainly has the incredible techinique the task required; his playing is often both splendid and enchanting, and consistency of vision is worth a great deal on such an epic journey … there is charm, invention and delight on every disc, and plenty of genius too' (The Age, Melbourne)

'No music library or serious Liszt aficionado will wish to be without these treasurable recordings' (International Piano)

'Liszt, one of music's greatest innovators, tends to be known by a tiny fraction of his work. Here's a chance to see the fuller picture' (The Guardian)

'Almost any way you choose to look at it, this is a staggering achievement. Pianistically, very few professionals are capable of getting this amount of music under their fingers; when the composer also happens to be, in historical terms, the foremost executant of the instrument, the number dwindles further. From a musicological point of few, Howard and his colleague Michael Short have unearthed a good deal of music that heretofore has been virtually unknown, not to mention unrecorded … 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)

‘Ilan Volkov’s sensitively atmospheric performances never overplay their hand, and make one wish this rarely heard music would make it more often in to the concert hall’ (The Irish Times)

‘Volkov shapes all these pieces with what seems perfect understanding of their different shades of gloom or grief, and the playing of the BBC Scottish, helped by Hyperion's first-rate recording, is also perfectly attuned to the light and shade of Liszt's sound-palette. Altogether a revelatory album: this combination of works actually says something new about Liszt's quality as an orchestral composer’ (BBC Music Magazine)

‘Hopefully the bicentenary of Liszt's birth will bring as wide a range of recordings as those of Chopin and Schumann last year. Certainly there will be few more valuable releases than this collection of late orchestral works, neglected even by the standards of Liszt's music in general … vividly immediate sound further enhances a disc that ought to prove a highlight of "Liszt year"’ (International Record Review)

‘The performances are tremendous. Volkov turns out to be a superb Lisztian, alert to the music's anguish and exaltation. The playing is beautifully textured, with a strong sense of technical and emotional limits being broached and sustained throughout. Highly recommended’ (The Guardian)