Liszt’s Piano Concerto No. 1 requires a soloist who can dazzle, charm, and converse, and Alessio Bax, making his Cleveland Orchestra debut, met the challenge with style. Though the score brims with ...

In 1841, a strange phenomenon occurred in Berlin. People were becoming manically frenzied at performances by classical music composer Franz Liszt. The events were similar to how fans in the 21st ...

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In 1844, Berlin was struck by a cultural fever critics labelled Lisztomania. The German poet Heinrich Heine coined the term after witnessing the almost delirious reception that greeted Hungarian ...