Composer of the Week

Donald Macleod surveys the range of Liszt's piano music, from the Second Hungarian Rhapsody to the work which Wagner called 'great, lovable, deep, and noble' - the Sonata in B minor. Preludio No 1 in (Douze etudes d'execution transcendante, S139) Douze etudes d'execution transcendante, S139 (No 10 in F minor; No 5 in B flat; No 8 in C minor) Boris Berezovsky (piano) Hungarian Rhapsody No 2 in C sharp minor, S244 Roberto Szidon (piano) Sonata in B minor for piano, S178 Alfred Brendel (piano).