In this vast, single-movement composition, Franz Liszt achieved a synthesis of symphonic and sonata forms that has never been surpassed for its cogency, scope and imagination. He managed this in a ...

My high-school piano teacher, Denning Barnes, liked to assign me pieces that I had no hope of being able to play. The idea was to experience the music from within, however pitiful the results. One day ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by For his new album, Benjamin Grosvenor delved into historical recordings of the daunting Sonata in B minor. By David Allen How do the great musicians ...

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Franz Liszt (1811-1886) once said, "My sole ambition as a composer is to hurl my javelin into the infinite space of the future." Indeed, though as both performer and composer he was one of the potent ...

Excerpt from Welcome song: What, what shall be done? / Purcell --How long, O Lord from Susanna / Handel --Excerpt from cantata Del silentio / Luigi Rossi --The fatal hour / Purcell --Meine Seufzer, ...