Franz Liszt's title pretty much sums it up: "A Faust Symphony in Three Character Sketches after Goethe: Faust, Gretchen, Mephistopheles." Rather than retelling the story of Goethe’s tale of Faust - ...

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 ...

The women who screamed and swooned for the 19th Century piano virtuoso Franz Liszt set the pattern for fans in our own time – from The Beatles to Justin Bieber. The spectacle of young women shrieking, ...

For a decade or so, Liszt thrilled and astounded audiences at a time when virtuosity (often as an end in itself) was the norm and the piano had rapidly evolved into a form recognisable as a close ...

The women who screamed and swooned for the 19th Century piano virtuoso Franz Liszt set the pattern for fans in our own time – from The Beatles to Justin Bieber. The spectacle of young women shrieking, ...