From practice rooms to concert halls, Franz Liszt's Transcendental Etudes present pianists with musical and technical hurdles that result in magical performances. Xiangyu Zhao is a composer, pianist ...

Liszt’s “Transcendental Etudes” represent 12 of the most technically daunting challenges any composer has ever posed to 10 fingers. As their name implies, this monumental set of studies lifted pianism ...

For pianists, the 12 “Transcendental Études” by the 19th-century composer Franz Liszt remain among the most perilous compositions in the repertoire, particularly if played in their entirety rather ...

There was something almost otherworldly about Kirill Gerstein's recital Sunday afternoon at the University of the District of Columbia, the culmination of Washington Performing Arts' Hayes Piano ...

Watch pianist Sean Cooney perform Franz Liszt’s "Transcendental Etude No. 10." Watch pianist Sean Cooney perform Franz Liszt’s "Transcendental Etude No. 10." Sean is the June 2025 WMHT-FM Classical ...

Liszt’s cycle of 12 pieces – full title Etudes d’exécution transcendante and more often played individually – count among the most fiendishly virtuosic of all piano compositions. Each piece has a ...

Not many pianists essay all of Liszt’s Transcendental Études at one sitting. Even fewer do so in a live recital, as Kirill Gerstein has in London and New York. The technical challenges of these 12 ...

Kirill Gerstein is a Russian-born pianist who has lived in America since his youth. He must be the most famous Kirill in music since Kondrashin (the late conductor). Last night, he played a recital in ...