Leslie Howard
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Liszt Complete Music for Solo Piano: New Discoveries 3
Romancero espagnol, Trois Chansons, Two further pieces from Christus, Wilde Jagd – Scherzo, Album-Leaves, and several first and second thoughts.
Leslie Howard (piano)
These CDs...amount to something more than the latest necessary purchase for completists: indeed this latest batch of previously unknown or long-forgotten items assembles into a pleasingly comprehensive... —
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Gramophone Magazine, March 2011, Editor's Choice
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A superbly played (and researched) addition to this extraordinary artist’s legacy. —
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Stravinsky Ballets
RecommendedTeresa Berganza (mezzo-soprano), Ryland Davies (tenor), John Shirley-Quirk (bass)
London Symphony Orchestra, Claudio Abbado
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Building a Library, October 2002, First Choice
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Building a Library, February 2021, Recommended Recording (complete ballet)
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Liszt Complete Music for Solo Piano 36: Excelsior!
and other rare original works
Leslie Howard (piano)
Even if it contained nothing but the [early version of the] Consolations, this volume would be one of the most revelatory in the series ... A major contribution to the catalogue. Enthusiastically... —
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His idiomatic grasp and utter reliability remain as admirable as in earlier instalments. Excellent sonics and informative notes by the performer —
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His idiomatic grasp and utter reliability remain as admirable as in earlier instalments. Excellent sonics and informative notes by the performer —
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He homes in on the Hungarian melodies and evocations and locates the love and pride that Liszt lavished on them —
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Howard, catching the authentic tinge of hysteria, mounts swiftly upwards in an ecstasy that burns away awareness of mere notes —
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In this first recording of the concert version of the Douze Grandes Etudes (1837), Leslie Howard brings his customary technical wizardry to bear on this outrageously difficult music in an arresting... —
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I constantly admired his near orchestral range of sonority - his strength in grandiloquence and his hypnotic sustaining power in intimacy. Everything is played with total conviction —
