Misha Dacic's concerts at the Miami Piano Festival in recent years made a sensational impact (check him out on Youtube). They show that appearances do not deceive: he looks like and actually is a wizard: a true artist, with limitless technique and the ability to conjure up myriad tonal effects from the piano, to turn that “miserable instrument” (Beethoven) into an orchestra of the most amazing timbres and sonorities.

Dacic’s affinity with Liszt shows in the selection of pieces on this new CD, presenting facets of the multi-faced genius, centred around three masterpieces, the epic B-A-C-H Variations, the seldom heard “Grosses Konzertsolo” and the infernal Dante Sonata, in which Dacic incorporates elements from all three versions Liszt made - prepare for some surprises!). As a suitable conclusion to an adventurous and tumultuous artistic life he ends with the late piece 'La Lugubre Gondola'.