Classical Music for Aficionados

https://www.amazon.com/Schubert-Transcriptions-Lieder-Jorge-Bolet/dp/B00000E2Z1

Thanks, twoleftears!

Concerning Bolet, just listening to him in a 1974 Carnegie Hall recital playing Liszt transcriptions and other virtuoso fare on Idagio.
Almost super-human immaculate dexterity.

Stephen Hough, first Liszt recital (not the Italian one), starts with Mephisto Waltz and continues with Tarantella.  One wonders how anyone can move their fingers this fast, and yet also in a clean, precise, controlled and highly expressive fashion. If this is how Liszt himself played, no wonder he left his audiences slack-jawed.

@rvpiano    I have just read your discourse on Bolet and I also love that you enjoyed the Carnegie Hall performance. When you consider who his teachers were it's a who's who of giants from the late 19th century. We have Moritz Rosentahl probably the best of List's students because he didn't die young and he didn't forget the piano to write operas. His other teachers were no less exaulted was Josef Hoffman who's teacher was the great Anton Rubinstein , also Leopold Godowsky who tutored Bolet on Godowsky's finger twisting creations . Unfortunately Bolet did not get on well with the big recording companies because none of them at the time wanted the Liszt Piano Sonata and his Transcedental Etudes so he did not get any big recording contracts until that stupendous Carnegie Hall recital. Thankfully Decca grabbed him up and they gave him a blank canvas to record what he felt like so we got a lot of Liszt and other virtuoso fare. He was actually primed to do some of Godowsky's Studies on the Chopin Etudes and I was there in Glasgow one day when he was giving a lecture on Rachmaninov's Third Piano Concerto and he had three students who were also taking a masterclass and being recorded by the BBC. When he was finished giving the masterclass both audience and orchestra gave him a standing ovation and quite buoyed by it he came back on and gave us an encore and it was one of the Godowsky Chopin etudes and it was two separate etudes at the one time and I still don't know how he did it. I was trying how to work out how it was possible because there skips and playing through the hands I just could not believe it and when he finished he gave a delighted bow and that was the last time I saw him. Yes Mr Bolet was a very special link to another age.