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Miami Piano Fest closes with Beethoven via Lisztian bombast - South Florida Classical Review

Miami Piano Fest closes with Beethoven via Lisztian bombast
South Florida Classical Review
... France and Brazil, the Miami International Piano Festival's Discovery Series concluded with a two concert marathon featuring performances by several festival regulars of Franz Liszt's transcriptions of five Beethoven symphonies.

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CD Review: Miklos Perenyi - Britten / Bach / Ligeti - Blinded By Sound

CD Review: Miklos Perenyi - Britten / Bach / Ligeti
Blinded By Sound
Hungarian cellist Miklos Perenyi studied at the Franz Lizst at the Academy of Music in Budapest, and has recorded with Andras Schiff, Denes Varjon, and the Franz Liszt Chamber Orchestra. He even studied with Pablo Casals in the mid-sixties.

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Lecture series part of this week's Miami International Piano Festival - Examiner.com

Lecture series part of this week's Miami International Piano Festival
Examiner.com
Entitled: "Tribute to Beethoven: Four Pianists, Five Symphonies as transcribed for piano by Franz Liszt," they will feature pianists Francesco Libetta (Italy), Kemal Gekic (Croatia), Eric Ferrand-N'Kaoua (France), and Misha Dacic (Serbia).

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Kronos Quartet and PEN: When Music and Literature Collide - Daily Beast


Daily Beast
Kronos Quartet and PEN: When Music and Literature Collide
Daily Beast
In the 19 th century, Franz Liszt set about translating some of the greatest works of literature into symphonic tone poems. His compositions adapted Goethe, Dante, Hugo, and Byron, as well as the myth of Prometheus, into lush, sweepingly romantic ...

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Tien Hsieh returns to Old St. Mary's with more transcriptions (mostly) - Examiner.com

Tien Hsieh returns to Old St. Mary's with more transcriptions (mostly)
Examiner.com
At today's recital the composer responsible for that “mostly” adverb was Franz Liszt with a performance of “Il Penseroso” (the thinker) from the second “year” in Italy of the Années de pèlerinage (years of pilgrimage) collection.

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The Classical Music Network - ConcertoNet

The Classical Music Network
ConcertoNet
Johann Sebastian Bach: Fantasy and Fugue for Organ in G Minor, BWV 542 (transcribed by Franz Liszt, S. 463) Franz Liszt: Fantasy and Fugue for Organ on “Ad nos, ad salutarem undam” (after Giacomo Meyerbeer), S. 259 (transcribed by Ferruccio Busoni) ...

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Kirill Gerstein hitting all the right notes - Chicago Sun-Times

Kirill Gerstein hitting all the right notes
Chicago Sun-Times
Now 32, Gerstein received an Avery Fisher Career Grant in April of that year and released his first major recording six months later: a solo album that included a newly commissioned composition by Oliver Knussen and works by Franz Liszt and Robert ...

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Young artists get tickets to top concert - Gisborne Herald

Young artists get tickets to top concert
Gisborne Herald
Chinese-American pianist Jian Liu's concert will be on at Professor Jack Richards' Wainui hilltop home, Tiromoana, next Wednesday and will feature a programme of works by German composer Robert Schumann (1810-1856) and Hungarian Franz Liszt (1811-1886) ...

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Musical challenges in store for last symphony concert of season - Bakersfield Californian

Musical challenges in store for last symphony concert of season
Bakersfield Californian
Also on the program is American composer Charles Griffes' sketch "The White Peacock," Franz Liszt's symphonic poem "Les Preludes," and the Overture to "The Bartered Bride," by Czech composer Bedrich Smetana. Howard Hanson was born in 1896 in Nebraska ...

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Waterbury Symphony Orchestra's season finale: Metamorphosis - Foothills Media Group

Waterbury Symphony Orchestra's season finale: Metamorphosis
Foothills Media Group
Guest pianist and WSO favorite, William Wolfram, will thrill audience members with his interpretations of Franz Liszt's Concerto no. 1, and Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky's Piano Concerto #3. As the WSO continues its forward momentum in the ever-evolving ...

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