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...LISZT: TRANSCENDENTAL STUDIES, 1838 VERSION (MCA). Liszt simplified these pieces into the still ferociously difficult Transcendental Etudes (1852) for fear that no one else could play them. There may now be several fire-eating piano virtuosos who can execute the original notes, but few can liberate the prophetic music they contain as masterfully as Janice Weber does here...
VLADIMIR HOROWITZ: RECORDINGS 1930-1951 (Angel/EMI). This is the three-disc set to which posterity will turn to rediscover Horowitz's genius. In much of his later recording, musical lines are twisted into pretzels and strewn with the salt of neurotic fussiness. Here, both in large-scale major works (Liszt's Sonata in B minor) and smaller pieces (Chopin's mazurkas), the phenomenal technique and unmistakable sonority serve the music, rather than the other way around...
...Gregor Piatigorsky. He was also getting solid piano instruction at the University of Southern California from John Crown, who was important not only for his teaching skills but also for his musical lineage. "Crown," says Thomas, "was a pupil of Moritz Rosenthal, and Rosenthal was a pupil of Liszt! Liszt was a pupil of Cherney, and Cherney was a pupil of Beethoven! It's really fun to think that some particular thing that I'm doing, the way I put my hands down on the keyboard, or some musical thought, some way or another comes through that line...
...concert will feature classical music by composers such as Liszt, Schubert and Brahms, Fan said, and is tentatively scheduled for December 17. Two Cambridge churches that sponsor homeless shelters may host the concert...
...oenophile pretension. One segment displays a dinner at a Madeira Club in Savannah, where tuxedo-clad grandees, after a traditional meal of turtle soup and roast duck, grope for words to describe some rare 19th century Malmseys and Verdelhos. "It's like the young Brahms and the mature Liszt," burbles one member...