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The pianist eagerly marks Franz Liszt's bicentennial with this collection of his personal favourites, in which the limpid, emollient "Romance 'Ô Pourquoi Donc'" and sensitively Chopin-esque "Consolation No 3" sit somewhat uneasily alongside the grand emotional gestures of "Liebestraum No 3" and mannered exercises like "Grand Galop chromatique", which Lang performs in true show-pony style, with equine arrogance.
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Variations chromatique to Sibelius's sonatas, from Elizabethan virginal music to his own ruminating transcriptions of Wagner and Beethoven.
CounterPunch 2009
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