‘The sheer quantity of music on offer may be impressive but the quality of the playing is even more remarkable, warmly sympathetic and, where necessary, thrillingly bold and impassioned’ (BBC Record Review)

‘This album is one of the supreme rewards of Howard's Liszt traversal. Sound is transparently immediate, and the artist's annotations guide one surely and elegantly through these amazing riches—which you must hear’ (Fanfare, USA)

‘Marvellous stuff and quite impeccably recorded’ (CDReview)

‘The charm of Donizetti's 'Nuits d'été à Pausilippe' makes one grateful for their rescue by Liszt and by Howard’ (Classic CD)

‘Howard's performances are, like nearly all in this series, consistently distinguished’ (Fanfare, USA)

‘The combination of devotion and diligence which both [Leslie Howard] and Liszt had lavished on getting to the heart of these inexhaustible works is staggering’ (Classic CD)

‘This really is a pretty phenomenal achievement. I urge Lisztians to hear it, and even those who collect the proper versions of the Beethoven Symphonies—it is a marvellous way of hearing them afresh’ (Gramophone)

«Howard joue tout cela avec beaucoup de raffinement et un vrai sens du châtoiement sonore. De belles découvertes» (Répertoire, France)

«Howard joue tout cela avec beaucoup de raffinement et un vrai sens du châtoiement sonore. De belles découvertes» (Répertoire, France)

'Una vez más debemos admirar de Howard, amén de su trabajo musicológico, este refinamiento en el trazo, esta elegancia en la comunicación de une idea musical' (CD Compact, Spain)

‘As choice as anything he's yet given us and the same goes for the recording’ (Gramophone)

‘Another abundant, revelatory, superb instalment in what is looming as perhaps the most adventurous, most consistently realized, and grandest project in recording history’ (Fanfare, USA)