Franz Liszt

Liszt with Love in Lockdown

By Cathy Fuller • Feb 19, 2021

Pianist Benjamin Grosvenor talks about his personal and passionate testament to the visionary spirit of Franz Liszt, prepared and recorded in the dark months of COVID.

Liszt, Chin, and Schumann with Masur

Saturday, Nov. 7, 2020
8:00 PM

In an encore broadcast of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, Ken-David Masur leads Schumann's Symphony No. 3, the "Rhenish," as well as the American premiere of Unsuk Chin's Mannequin and Liszt's Totentanz, with piano soloist Louie Lortie.

For the Teachers

By Laura Carlo • Sep 21, 2020

For years we’ve seen the bumper stickers: “If you can read this, thank a teacher.” When it comes to music, that bumper sticker might say “If you are hearing this, thank a teacher.”

Gerstein Premiere's Adès's Piano Concerto

April 16, 2020
8:00 PM

In a 2019 concert at Symphony Hall, Kirill Gerstein is the soloist in the world premiere of the Piano Concerto by BSO Artistic Partner Thomas Adès, a program Adès conducts that also includes Liszt's First "Mephisto Waltz" and Tchaikovsky's Fourth Symphony.

A Dreamlike Musical Landscape, with Stephen Hough

By WCRB Staff • Jun 18, 2018

There's a lot to look forward to when Stephen Hough releases a new album: his warm and nuanced playing is often topped off with a delicious dose of liner notes, as revealing and lovingly crafted as the music itself. Hear the swirling textures of his new CD, "The Dream Album," WCRB's CD of the Week.