Composer of the Week - Franz Liszt
Donald Macleod explores the five different aspects of Liszt as a musical personality
Composer of the Week - Franz Liszt - Liszt the Re-composer
Donald Macleod investigages why Liszt spent so much time re-arranging existing music - by composers such as Bach, Schubert and Mozart - instead of writing more of his own.
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Composer of the Week - Franz Liszt - Liszt the Song Composer
Donald Macleod explores Liszt's songs, which number around 80, and some of which are considered to be among his finest works.
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Composer of the Week - Franz Liszt - Liszt the Traveller
Donald Macleod looks at the period when Liszt eloped with his mistress - the beginning of a restless time the composer charted in the first two volumes of Annees de pelerinage.
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Composer of the Week - Franz Liszt - Liszt the Virtuoso
Donald Macleod surveys the range of Liszt's piano music, from the Hungarian Rhapsody No 2 to the work which Wagner called 'great, lovable, deep, and noble' - the Sonata in B minor.
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Composer of the Week - Franz Liszt - Liszt the Visionary
Donald Macleod explores the very modern, forward-looking works of Liszt's final decade.
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