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Background:

• Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2 in C-sharp minor: A wildly popular and energetic piece heavily featured in classic cartoons and pop culture.
• La Campanella: A dazzling, highly difficult etude based on a theme by Niccolò Paganini featuring huge hand leaps.
• Liebesträume No. 3 (Dreams of Love): A tender, lyrical, and deeply romantic nocturne.
• Piano Sonata in B minor: Widely considered Liszt's ultimate masterpiece and a monumental test of technical and musical skill.
• Piano Concerto No. 1 in E-flat major: A bold, concise, and brilliant concerto that breaks traditional movement boundaries.
• Totentanz (Dance of Death): A dramatic orchestral and piano piece built around the grim Dies irae chant.
• Les préludes: One of his most famous pioneering symphonic poems translating philosophical ideas into orchestral music.
• A Faust Symphony: A profound multi-movement orchestral work depicting the characters of Faust, Gretchen, and Mephistopheles.

Recordings:

• The Liszt Concertos.
  Piano Concerto No. 1.
  Daniel Barenboim (piano).
  Staatskapelle Berlin.
  Pierre Boulez.
  Deutsche Grammophon.
  Gramophone Magazine (2012): Editor’s Choice.

• Consolations.
  Liebestraume S541, Nos. 1 – 3.
  Saskia Giorgini (piano).
  Pentatone.
  Gramophone Magazine (2023): Critics’ Choice.

• Liszt.
  Piano Sonata in B minor S178.
  Benjamin Grosvenor (piano).
  Decca.
  Gramophone Awards (2021): Shortlisted Piano.
  Gramophone Magazine (2021): Editor’s Choice.
  Presto Editor’s Choice (2021).
  International Classical Music Awards (2022): Nominated Solo Instrument.

• Piano Sonata, Fantasy and Fugue on the Theme of BACH.
  Marc-Andre Hamelin (piano).
  Hyperion.
  Gramophone Magazine (2011): Editor’s Choice.

• Grieg & Liszt Piano Concertos.
  Piano Concerto No. 1.
  Stephen Hough.
  Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra.
  Andrew Litton.
  Hyperion.
  Presto Recording of the Week (2011).
  Presto Favourites (2011): Recommended Recording.
  Gramophone Magazine (2012): Editor’s Choice.
  Radio 3 Building a Library (2014): Modern Choice.

• Inspirations.
  Liebestraum S541, No. 3.
  Olivier Latry (organ).
  La Dolce Volta
  Diapason d’Or de Annee (2021): Orgue.

• Fantasia.
  Piano Sonata in B minor.
  Igor Levit.
  Sony.
  Presto Recording of the Week (2023).
  Presto Recordings of the Year (2023): Finalist.
  International Classical Music Awards (2024): Nominated Solo Instrument.
  Opus Klassik Awards (2024): Recording of the Year.

• Live at the Mariinsky: Haydn, Chopin, Rachmaninov, Liszt.
  Hungarian Rhapsody S244, No. 2.
  George Li (piano).
  Warner Classics.
  Opus Klassik Awards (2018): Winner Solo Recording Piano (19th Century).

• Works for Piano and Orchestra Volume 3.
  Piano Concerto No. 1.
  Louis Lortie.
  Residentie Orchestra The Hague.
  George Pehlivanian
  Chandos.Gramophone Magazine (2002): Editor’s Choice.

• Hungarian Rhapsodies Complete.
  Vincenzo Maltempo (piano).
  Piano Classics.
  Gramophone Magazine (2017): Editor’s Choice.

• Symphonic Poem Volume 1: Ce qu’on entend sur la montagne, Tasso, Lamento e Trionfo, Les Preludes, Orpheus.
  Les Preludes No. 3, S97.
  BBC Philharmonic.
  Gianandrea Noseda.
  Chandos.

• Symphonic Poems Volume 2: Eine Faust-Symphonie, Von der Wiege bis zum Grabe.
  A Faust Symphony.
  BBC Philharmonic.
  Gianandrea Noseda.
  Chandos.
  BBC Music Magazine (2006): Disc of the Month.
  
• Transcendental Etudes & Piano Sonata.
  Piano Sonata in B minor.
  Francesco Piemontesi (piano).
  Pentatone.
  International Classical Music Awards (2024): Nominated Solo Instrument.

• A Faust Symphony, Dante Symphony, Les Preludes, Prometheus.
  A Faust Symphony S108.
  Les Preludes Symphonic Poem No. 5 S97.
  Siegfried Jerusalem (tenor).
  Chicago Symphony Chorus.
  Chicago Symphony Orchestra.
  Sir Georg Solti.
  Decca.
  Grammy Awards (1986): Best Orchestral Performance.

• Transcendental.
  Grandes Etudes de Paganini S141.
  Daniil Trifonov (piano).
  Deutsche Grammophon.
  Gramophone Magazine (2016): Disc of the Month.
  Presto Recording of the Week (2016).
  Presto Recordings of the Year (2016).
  ECHO Klassik Awards (2017): Winner.
  Grammy Awards (2017): Best Classical Instrumental Solo.
  Gramophone Awards (2017): Finalist Instrumental.
  Schallplattenkritik Awards (2017): Winner Jahrespreis.

• Beethoven & Liszt.
  Sonata in B minor.
  Haochen Zhang (piano).
  BIS.

• Klavierkonzerte Nos. 1 & 2, Totentanz.
  Krystian Zimerman.
  Boston Symphony Orchestra.
  Seiji Ozawa.
  Deutsche Grammophon.
  Penguin Guide (2013): Rosette.
  Radio 3 Building a Library (2013): First Choice.

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