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NEW YORK FRANZ LISZT INTERNATIONAL PIANO COMPETITION INVITING 4 P IANISTS TO COMPETE AT CARNEGIE HALL STERN AUDITORIUMN PERELMAN STAGE OCTOBER 7 , 2022 A P P L I C A T I O N D E A D L I N E S E P T E M B E R 1 5 , 2 0 2 2 www.newyorkliszt.com
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CONTENTS REGULAR FEATURES 6 LETTERS Your thoughts and comments 7 NEWS & NOTES Stephen Hough awarded a knighthood ••• New York Liszt Competition opens applications ••• Casio launches Wellness Hub 55 MASTERCLASS Leslie Howard undertakes a deep textual analysis of Liszt’s Dante Sonata 59 RETURNING TO THE PIANO III – Movements (Part 1) 63 SHEET MUSIC Nostalgie by Zygmunt Noskowski 70 READY FOR ACTION Yamaha’s new CFX concert grand 72 A MUSICAL MARRIAGE Brenda Luca Ogdon on her life with John 74-80 NEW RELEASES CDs and sheet music 82 MUSIC OF MY LIFE British pianist Mark Viner 70 MUSEUM IAL MEMOR FERENC ISZT L CELEBRATING LISZT 10 5 EDITORIAL Devotees and detractors THE MAN 10 DIVINE DISCONTENT How Liszt’s artistry sprang from profound contradictions in his personality 12 ALL-EMBRACING SPIRIT We survey the rich heritage of contemporary accounts of Liszt 15 LISZT IN IMAGES Bringing Liszt’s portrait to life through technology THE PERFORMER 17 DEFINING LISZT Six leading Liszt exponents explore the composer’s unique soundworld 22 PIANIST AS ACTOR Paul Roberts examines Liszt’s role as progenitor of the solo piano recital 27 CLASH OF THE TITANS What can we learn from Liszt’s famous ‘piano duel’ with Sigismond Thalberg? REPERTOIRE 33 LIFT UP YOUR HEARTS Intimations of death and hope for eternal life in Années de pèlerinage 36 LISZT AND THE LIEDER Lyricism and virtuosity in the composer’s transcriptions of Schubert songs 40 EXPERIMENTS WITH FORM Alexander Ullman on how Liszt stretched the boundaries of Classical genres RECORDINGS 42 LISTENER’S GUIDE Liszt’s Piano Concerto No 2 in A major 47 TOP 10 RECORDINGS Gramophone’s pick of the best Liszt piano albums CODA 49 BOOKS Liszt’s obsession with fantasy 50 WHAT’S NOT TO LIKE? Jeremy Nicholas mounts a spirited defence against Liszt’s critics www.international-piano.com International Piano July/August 2022 3

NEW YORK FRANZ LISZT

INTERNATIONAL PIANO COMPETITION

INVITING 4 P IANISTS

TO COMPETE AT

CARNEGIE HALL

STERN AUDITORIUMN PERELMAN STAGE

OCTOBER 7 , 2022

A P P L I C A T I O N D E A D L I N E

S E P T E M B E R 1 5 ,

2 0 2 2

www.newyorkliszt.com

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