Dreamy, slow-moving and gentle, the D flat Consolation is far from our accepted picture of Liszt, which is often taken from caricatures of his solo recitals: wild hair and eyes, hands flying off the ...
The young Czech pianist Libor Novacek's recording of the second, Italian book of Liszt's Années de Pèlerinage brought him to everyone's attention when it appeared four years ago, and the release of ...