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Debut

Alpha

$20.99 Jun 05, 2026

Greek-Russian pianist Sasha Stychkina, born in December 2003 in Moscow into a family of musicians and filmmakers, is the youngest finalist and winner in the history of the Marguerite Long International Piano Competition in Paris in November 2019. Today she presents her first recital, recorded at the Teldex studio in Berlin under the artistic direction of her teacher, the charismatic and renowned pianist Kirill Gerstein. A decidedly varied programme-Weber, Bartok, Ravel, Chopin, Liszt-it is by turns virtuosic, dance-like and spiritual. Sasha Stychkina also introduces us to a little-known composer, Alexei Vladimirovich Stanchinsky (1888-1914), a mystical figure, considered mad - he spent a year in a psychiatric hospital - who drowned at the age of twenty-six. A student of Taneyev, encouraged by Scriabin, and introduced to Tolstoy, the composer nevertheless had a bright future ahead of him. The Five Preludes (1907-1912, published posthumously in 1928), chosen by Sasha Stychkina, are particularly evocative and visionary.

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Debut
Alpha Jun 2026
CD
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J.S. Bach, Liszt, Reger & Straube: Elements of Bach

Ars Produktion

SACD

$24.99 Mar 17, 2023

Three nights of recording this album are behind me. This time has brought me even closer to the instrument of the organ-building company Hermann Eule in the Cathedral of St. Petri in my home town of Bautzen, which has been well known to me since my early childhood. The mystical atmosphere and soul of the house of God are especially palpable at night, when everything is silent and dark outside. The focus of my programme is Johann Sebastian Bach, who is an important guide and inspirer for me. Seb. Bach is for me the beginning and end of all music; on him rests and is based all true progress!" - this quote by Max Reger runs as a common thread through my programme for the recording. The important Leipzig Thomaskantor was also an important creative source for Karl Straube, Max Reger and Franz Liszt. Each of the pieces on this CD finds its own reference to the work and person of the Baroque master: from late Romantic arrangements of Bach works by Karl Straube and Max Reger, to a work by Franz Liszt that quotes thematic motifs from Bach works, to Max Reger's monumental composition on the tone letters B-A-C-H, all the compositions revolve around the person and work of Johann Sebastian Bach. I go in search of the musical expression of the 19th century and trace compositions and interpretations from this period. Numerous recordings on the historic Sauer and Walcker organs already document the tonal and musical influences of the late Romantic period on the way music was made. The Eule organ in Bautzen's St. Peter's Cathedral, with its broad sound spectrum and numerous fundamental voices, offers an instrument directly suited to this repertoire. Already Karl Straube, who performed the organ recording on 8 March 1910, was particularly impressed by the mild intonation of the sound body. The recording is my personal gift on the occasion of the 150th birth anniversaries of Karl Straube and Max Reger, which will be celebrated on 06 January 2023 and 09 March 2023 respectively. The programme revels in Bach interpretations around 1900, the heyday of symphonic organ art. In this epoch, not only were new compositions specifically geared to the instruments of the time created in the field of organ music, but existing works were also arranged. The listener embarks on a journey into the past and experiences with Romantic ears a 100-year-old reception history of Johann Sebastian Bach's music. Each of the recorded works refers in its own way to Johann Sebastian Bach, whose figure and name inspired Karl Straube, Max Reger and Franz Liszt to create new, contemporary late Romantic works."

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J.S. Bach, Liszt, Reger & Straube: Elements of Bach
Ars Produktion Mar 2023
SACD
$24.99

Liszt: Sonetto 104 / Corbyn Beisner

Perfect Noise

$19.99 Jan 15, 2021

On his debut album, the young pianist Corbyn Beisner indulges in the complexity, mysticism and passion of major piano works by Franz Liszt. Since his performing debut in 2006 playing Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 3, op. 37, Corbin Beisner (born 1988) has been active as a classical pianist throughout Europe and the United States. Notable performances have included recitals at the Conservatoire Liceu in Barcelona, Spain, the Liszt Saal at the Accademia d’Ungheria in Rome, Italy, All-Liszt recitals throughout Switzerland, including a recital in the famous “Le Troi Roi” hotel in Basel, numerous concerts in Budapest, Hungary, and performances at the Liszt Summer Piano Festival at Schloss Schillingsfürst in Schillingsfürst, Germany.In the United States, he has been invited to perform by Chopin societies in Connecticut, Texas, the Chopin Foundation in Florida, and the American Liszt Society.

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Liszt: Sonetto 104 / Corbyn Beisner
Perfect Noise Jan 2021
CD
$19.99

WOLF, E.W.: 4 Symphonies
Naxos Sep 2005
CD
$19.99

Liszt: Transcriptions of Symphonic Poems / Monteiro

Naxos

$19.99 Jun 10, 2016

Liszt turned to the composition of large-scale orchestral works after his success as a touring virtuoso and wrote a sequence of ground-breaking symphonic poems that in their narrative-driven structures directly influenced such composers as Richard Strauss and Sibelius. The piano transcriptions that Liszt supervised and produced saw these vivid scores transformed into the virtuoso piano medium in which form their pictorial richness could be enjoyed anew. This volume includes the memorably evocative Les Préludes and Orpheus.

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Liszt: Transcriptions of Symphonic Poems / Monteiro
Naxos Jun 2016
CD
$19.99

Liszt: Der du von dem Himmel bist - Late Lieder / Krimmel, Heide

CAvi-music

$19.99 May 27, 2022

This is Vol. II of a longterm planned series of (unknown) Liszt songs. The pianist Daniel Heide discovered some of the originals and has put the program together. Konstantin Krimmel, not even 30 years old, is one of the top singers for lieder and oratorios; only recently he joined the Munich State operas team. It was during his studies with prof. Teru Yoshihara and Tobias Truniger that he developed a special love for the concert and lied repertoire, which he quickly expanded. He has since won numerous competitions, including the 2019 German Music Competition as well as 1st prize at the International Helmut Deutsch Lied Competition, 2nd prize at the International Singing Competition ‚Das Lied‘ in Heidelberg and the Gian Battista Viotti International Music Competition. Daniel Heide certainly is one of the top partners for singers at the piano.

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Liszt: Der du von dem Himmel bist - Late Lieder / Krimmel, Heide
CAvi-music May 2022
CD
$19.99

Liszt: Complete Piano Music, Vol. 62 - Transcriptions of Religious Works / Cousin

Naxos

$19.99 May 24, 2024

Volume 62 of the Liszt Complete Piano Music Series focuses on transcriptions of religious works by Mozart, Rossini, Verdi, von Goldschmidt, and Liszt himself. Prize-winning pianist Martin Cousin returns to the series (he is the pianist on Volume 61 / 8.574545) for this selection of spiritual and mystical pieces.

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Liszt: Complete Piano Music, Vol. 62 - Transcriptions of Religious Works / Cousin
Naxos May 2024
CD
$19.99

Liszt: Faust Symphony / Madaras, Liège RPO

BIS

SACD

$21.99 Sep 06, 2024

Few literary works exerted as strong an influence on European culture in the 19th century as Goethe's play Faust. While several important composers drew inspiration from it, Franz Liszt seems to have had a particularly close relationship with Goethe's masterpiece. He came up with the idea of a symphony 'in three characteristic pictures', each devoted to a key character in the play: Faust, Gretchen and Mephistopheles. Rather than telling the story of the play, Liszt composed a psychological exploration of these three main figures. He was also a pioneer in his use of leitmotifs, i.e. short musical ideas that underline a trait of character or evoke feelings, a process that his future son-in-law, Richard Wagner, would take even further in his operas. This recording presents the original, purely instrumental version of the Faust Symphony from 1854. This gigantic work is complemented by the first of the Mephisto Waltzes, inspired by Nikolaus Lenau's vision of the Faust myth. These two works offer two very different perspectives on Liszt's intense relationship with the character of Faust, and in particular with that of Mephistopheles, around whom many of his compositions are structured. They are key works for understanding Liszt's aesthetic project and the typical nineteenth-century tendency towards a combination of the arts.

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Liszt: Faust Symphony / Madaras, Liège RPO
BIS Sep 2024
SACD
$21.99

Liszt: Complete Piano Music, Vol. 49 / Filipec

Naxos

$19.99 Apr 13, 2018

This release is the 49th volume in the Naxos series of the complete works of Franz Liszt. Volume 49 features a wide-ranging selection of dance pieces. The Valses oubliées reveal a compound of wistful nostalgia and advanced harmonies while the remarkable Csárdás macabre, a characteristic Hungarian folk-dance, is full of innovative features. The effervescent Mazurka brillante is a very rare example of Liszt making original use of this Polish form, whilst simultaneously transforming it. The Grand Galop cromatique, heard here in two versions, is a bravura encore piece that the young Liszt often played in his virtuoso recitals. The works are presented on this release by Goran Filipec, recent laureate of the Granc Prix du Disque of the Ferenc Liszt Society of Budapest.

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Liszt: Complete Piano Music, Vol. 49 / Filipec
Naxos Apr 2018
CD
$19.99

Liszt at the Opera / Louis Lortie

Chandos

$21.99 Oct 29, 2013

The exclusive Chandos artist and award-winning pianist, Louis Lortie continues his critically acclaimed exploration of piano works by Liszt, turning to opera transcriptions, paraphrases and fantasies that with their technical innovation revolutionized composition for the piano.

In Réminiscences de ‘Don Juan’, based on three scenes from Mozart’s Don Giovanni, Liszt creates a work renowned for its extreme technical difficulty. He dazzled audiences in his own time with performances of it, and it has remained notorious ever since, Ferruccio Busoni claiming that ‘this piece among pianists has acquired the almost symbolic significance of a pianistic summit’.

The Paraphrase de concert on Rigoletto is one of three Verdi paraphrases only published in 1960, each of which concentrates on one particular moment of its respective Verdi opera, presenting it in highly pianistic terms whilst maintaining the general lines of the original. In the Rigoletto paraphrase Liszt focuses on the aria ‘Bella figlia dell’amore’.

In the Valse de l’opéra ‘Faust’ de Gounod Liszt cleverly combines the waltz from Act I of the opera with a melodious love duet from Act II. After these materials have been transformed and Liszt has added his own musical tangents, the piece accelerates into a vertiginous whirl, reminiscent of Ravel’s much later La Valse, and finally the main theme reappears with majestic swagger and grandeur.

Completing the album are several more or less straightforward transcriptions based on operas by Richard Wagner who, despite a rocky start to their relationship, forged a close musical bond with Liszt. Among these transcriptions is the popular ‘Liebestod’ from Tristan und Isolde. Liszt never completed a transcription of its natural musical companion, the Prelude to the same opera, so here Louis Lortie has recorded his own arrangement of that piece.

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"Liszt’s transcriptions of, and fantasias on, excerpts from operas like 'Rigoletto' and 'Faust' – not to mention the works of his future son-in-law, Richard Wagner – are some of the most dazzling and complex piano works of the 19th century. Louis Lortie, a fantastic Lisztian, performs them with confidence and clarity. And his new version of the prelude to Wagner’s 'Tristan und Isolde,' a companion to Liszt’s transcription of the 'Liebestod,' stands comparison with the master." – The New York Times

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Liszt at the Opera / Louis Lortie
Chandos Oct 2013
CD
$21.99

Liszt: Totentanz, Piano Concertos No 1 & 2 / Cohen, Neschling, São Paulo State SO

BIS

SACD

$21.99 Jun 01, 2007

On the present disc it is the all-Brazilian team of eminent pianist Arnaldo Cohen and the São Paulo Symphony Orchestra conducted by John Neschling who join forces. Arnaldo Cohen is a highly respected Liszt interpreter, as he has shown on a previous BIS release (CD1253), which earned him an Editor's Choice in Gramophone as well as glowing reviews, such as the following in the Chicago Tribune: 'These performances pack a tremendous visceral punch...among the most musically intelligent recordings of these celebrated pieces to grace the catalogue.' The São Paulo SO and Neschling have recently been earning international recognition both after highly successful tours and a number of BIS recordings that among other things have been desribed as 'the most vibrant, colourful, rhythmically vital and virtuosic performances imaginable' (Classics Today.com)

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Liszt: Totentanz, Piano Concertos No 1 & 2 / Cohen, Neschling, São Paulo State SO
BIS Jun 2007
SACD
$21.99

Liszt: Années de pèlerinage

Piano Classics

$29.99 Jan 01, 2012

Enrico Pace has a special affinity for the music of Liszt. First Prize winner of the first International Liszt Competition 1989 in Utrecht, he dazzled both jury and audience with playing of immense power of imagination, subtlety and devilry (here his own appearance worked to his advantage). This event marked the beginning of an impressive international career. For a long time, Pace considered recordings to be lacking the inspiration and excitement of a live concert. Thankfully, he reconsidered this position and this release from Piano Classics marks his long-awaited recording debut. It features a selection of works near to Pace's heart that are sure to touch the hearts of his many admirers and fans.

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Liszt: Années de pèlerinage
Piano Classics Jan 2012
CD
$29.99

Liszt: Piano Concertos / Barenboim, Boulez, Staatskapelle Berlin

Accentus Music

DVD

$41.99 Feb 28, 2012

Also available on Blu-ray

For the very first time Daniel Barenboim tackled Franz Liszt's two highly virtuosic piano concertos in a single concert. With Pierre Boulez, his friend and esteemed colleague of many years, conducting Barenboim’s own orchestra, the Staatskapelle Berlin, they were showered with praise on their tour across Europe. For both musicians, Liszt was one of the most important pioneers of modern music, as composer, conductor and pianist. He influenced revolutionary contemporaries such as Robert Schumann and Richard Wagner. Two examples of the latter's magnificent orchestral work round off this concert programme celebrating Liszt’s bicentenary.

LISZT: PIANO CONCERTOS

Franz Liszt:
Piano Concerto No. 1 in E flat major, S124/R455
Piano Concerto No. 2 in A major, S125/R456
Consolations, S172/R12: No. 3 in D flat major
Valse oubliée No. 1

Richard Wagner:
A Faust Overture
Siegfried Idyll

Daniel Barenboim, piano
Berlin Staatskapelle
Pierre Boulez, conductor

Recorded live at the Philharmonie Essen on 9–10 June 2011 during the Klavier-Festival Ruhr

Picture format: NTSC 16:9
Sound format: PCM Stereo / Dolby Digital 5.1 / DTS 5.1
Region code: 0 (worldwide)
Running time: 90 mins
No. of DVDs: 1

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Liszt: Piano Concertos / Barenboim, Boulez, Staatskapelle Berlin
Accentus Music Feb 2012
DVD
$41.99

COMPLETE SYMPHONIC POEMS FOR T
Cedille Jan 1997
CD
$29.99

Liszt, Mendelssohn, Vangelis et al.: Odyssee / Dörken

Berlin Classics

$20.99 May 06, 2022

Pianist Danae Dörken is embarking on a musical journey: on April 22, 2022, her new album "Odyssee" will be released by Berlin Classics. The repertoire is a varied selection and leads the listener through different eras. Among them are well-known classics by Franz Liszt or Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, but also works that the pianist associates with her Greek origins, for example by Manos Hatzidakis and Vangelis. "Odyssee" is about traveling, wandering and dreaming. "The Odyssey has fascinated me from a very young age. Even as a child, it was read to me as a bedtime story by my grandparents," Danae Dörken says. She knows the various stages of the journey inside out. "For me, it's a very current story. I think we're going through a modern odyssey. That's what I want to show with this album."

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Liszt, Mendelssohn, Vangelis et al.: Odyssee / Dörken
Berlin Classics May 2022
CD
$20.99

Jaell, Liszt & Saint-Saens: Piano a 4 mains

Cyprés Records

$20.99 Oct 04, 2024

A singular composer, Marie Jaell (1846-1925) made the piano the perfect confidant of her inspiration. In her short pieces for piano four hands, she succeeded in capturing both the changing essence of Nature, with it's storms, perfumes and infinity, and the tremors and anxieties of the human heart in the face of love or the fragility of life. Her two teachers, admirers and faithful friends Franz Liszt and Camille Saint-Saens are of course present on this recording, as they were in life, alongside their spirited colleague. On their first album at Cypres, the Duo Orloff & Spinnler unveil a figure still too little known today. Marie Jaell's impact on piano teaching has been considerable. Her research into "awareness of movement and the development of sensitivity" led her to publish several groundbreaking books for the time.

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Jaell, Liszt & Saint-Saens: Piano a 4 mains
Cyprés Records Oct 2024
CD
$20.99

Water & Fire
Quartz Music Aug 2026
CD
$16.99

Liszt: Piano Works / Alfredo Perl

Oehms Classics

$28.99 Apr 02, 2021

This collection contains the most important recordings by Alfredo Perl with piano works by Franz Liszt. A special highlight is the recording of the piano concertos with the BBC Symphony Orchestra. Alfredo Perl studied with Carlos Botto at the Universidad de Chile in Santiago, Günter Ludwig at the Musikhochschule in Cologne and Maria Curcio in London. He gave his first concert at the age of nine and then performed throughout South America and Europe as recitalist and with the Santiago Philharmonic Orchestra and the Zagreb Symphony Orchestra. Perl has since been a prizewinner in major competitions, including the Ferruccio Busoni Competition in Bolzano and the Beethoven Competition in Vienna, and he won first prize at the International Piano Competition in Montevideo. Alfredo Perl is professor for piano at the Detmold University of Music and has been artistic director of the Detmold Chamber Orchestra since 2009.

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Liszt: Piano Works / Alfredo Perl
Oehms Classics Apr 2021
CD
$28.99

Ferenc Farkas: Orchestral Music, Vol. 3: Music for Oboe & St

Toccata

$20.99 Apr 14, 2015

This is the third release in a series of toccata classics critically well-received recordings of orchestral music by the Hungarian composer Ferenc Farkas (1905-2000). this volume features works for oboe and strings, the solo instrument played by legendary Hungarian oboist Lajos Lencses, who has made more than fifty recordings. the recording highlights the characteristics that make his music so appealing: Catchy tunes, transparent scoring, buoyant rhythms and a fondness for baroque forms and folk-dances. Two chamber pieces featuring the oboe and Cor Anglais offer textural contrast.

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Ferenc Farkas: Orchestral Music, Vol. 3: Music for Oboe & St
Toccata Apr 2015
CD
$20.99

Guillou: Organ Works, Vol. 1 - Symphonic Poems

Aeolus

SACD

$34.99 Dec 01, 2023

Zuzana Ferjencíková starts her complete recording of Jean Guillou's organ works with AEOLUS with this recording of symphonic poems. The Slovakian concert organist studied for many years with Jean Guillou (1930 - 2019) and performed his complete organ works in several concerts at the Saint-Eustache church in Paris a few years ago. The 5-manual instrument there was conceived by Jean Guillou in the late 1980s and built by the firm Van den Heuvel (NL) in 1989. Fortunately, we were able to make the recordings for this double SACD (stereo and 5.1 surround) on precisely this spectacular instrument. In addition to Jean Guillou's own symphonic poems, Zuzana Ferjencíková has also recorded here all the transcriptions of works by Franz Liszt that Guillou made. His arrangement of Liszt's "Tasso" is available as a world premiere recording.

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Guillou: Organ Works, Vol. 1 - Symphonic Poems
Aeolus Dec 2023
SACD
$34.99