From practice rooms to concert halls, Franz Liszt's Transcendental Etudes present pianists with musical and technical hurdles that result in magical performances. Xiangyu Zhao is a composer, pianist ...

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Daniil Trifonov has climbed to the top of the pianistic tree so effortlessly that it’s sometimes hard to remember he is still only 25 and has the time and potential to develop even more. As this ...

As far as the British market is ­concerned, Deutsche Grammophon has adopted the same strategy in ­promoting its ­latest pianistic wonder, the 22-year-old ­Japanese/German Alice Sara Ott, as it did ...

In his Friday evening Celebrity Series recital at Jordan Hall, the charismatic young pianist Daniil Trifonov presented two musical takes on transcendence. First came Beethoven’s final piano sonata, a ...

Not many pianists essay all of Liszt’s Transcendental Études at one sitting. Even fewer do so in a live recital, as Kirill Gerstein has in London and New York. The technical challenges of these 12 ...

For pianists, the 12 “Transcendental Études” by the 19th-century composer Franz Liszt remain among the most perilous compositions in the repertoire, particularly if played in their entirety rather ...

In his day Liszt was the ultimate showman at the piano. Flamboyant, unbridled, Daniil Trifonov’s new disc of Liszt has its fingers on the right pulse. It is only a few months since Kirill Gerstein ...

This is, unquestionably, a great piano recording. In this young pianist’s hands you will hear one of the finest-ever performances of the 12 Transcendental Studies, and I include all those made in the ...

It's great when a record company like Deutsche Grammophon gets solidly behind a young artist like the 22-year-old German Japanese pianist Alice Sara Ott. It's even better, though, when the results ...