The piano collection

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To celebrate the 200th anniversary of the birth of Franz Liszt, which will take place on October 22, EMI Classics has gathered in a 10CD box set his most beautiful works for piano, in the most accomplished interpretations: Aldo Ciccolini, Georges Cziffra, Vladimir Ovchinnikov (magnificent Transcendental Etudes that have just been re-released in early May), Leif Ove Andsnes. Franz Liszt needs no introduction, this brilliant composer, immense pianist - undoubtedly the most famous of his time alongside Frédéric Chopin - and extraordinary virtuoso that all of Europe coveted, and simply one of the most significant personalities in the musical world of the 19th century. It is here to the composer, father of modern piano technique, that we pay tribute with his masterpieces: the Sonata in B minor, the Years of Pilgrimage, the Hungarian Rhapsodies, Gray Clouds, the Poetic and Religious Harmonies.