Turns out, this étude looks as beautiful as it sounds Liszt's short piano piece ‘La Campanella’ takes a melody from Paganini's Second Violin Concerto. And with that sort of ancestry, it's no surprise ...

This musician swapped lullabies for Liszt’s most demanding piano work, to comfort his tiny tot. One parent has solved the problem of how to calm an upset child: play them classical music. His piece of ...

Piano reductions of orchestral and vocal scores are a tradition meeting two ends. First, for the transcriber to show off his arrangement and performance abilities. Franz Liszt made a cottage industry ...

SAGA--Along with the nori he cultivated from the sea, Yoshiaki Tokunaga harvested his own budding talent that was planted when he saw a famed concert pianist on TV. Tokunaga, 63, who excels at playing ...

SAGA--Yoshiaki Tokunaga had often performed in front of audiences, but when the seaweed farmer faced down a staggering 1,700 people, he felt so nervous he thought he would faint. Tokunaga, 60, played ...

Franz Liszt designed the B Minor Sonata as an expression of his own stupendous keyboard technique and extravagant romantic vision. It is almost always underplayed because few pianists can withstand ...