Wishing you and your loved ones a very happy, peaceful, and splendid Holiday Season The winter holiday season is upon us once again, and I hope it provides us all with the opportunity to relax, rest, and reflect. This is my final post of the year, and I’d like to thank everyone who takes the…
Tag: Franz Liszt
Master Class with Alfred Brendel
The following class is particularly interesting as it focuses entirely on Franz Liszt’s monumental Sonata in B minor S.178, and is hosted by legendary Austrian pianist Alfred Brendel. Recorded at the Royal College of Music in London, the class has been split between two pianists, Elmar Gasanov and Petr Limonov, both of whom have since…
Leslie Howard in conversation with Melanie Spanswick
The thirty-sixth interview in my Classical Conversations Series features British concert pianist and Liszt specialist Leslie Howard. I met him at his home in London. Find out more about Leslie, here. Here’s the transcript for those who prefer to read my interview: MELANIE SPANSWICK: British concert pianist Leslie Howard is the only pianist ever to…