He was flirting with a larger, Hollywood career - playing Liszt in 'Song Without End'.
Somewhere in the house a piano played Liszt, or perhaps it was a recording.
He had one of the great electrifying techniques (not even Horowitz played Liszt with more wry gusto), but he was in the end a poet.
Mr. Wild played Liszt with infectious spontaneity, as if he were improvising and were himself surprised by each new event.
"In a Hungarian Hussar outfit I would play Liszt."
She played Liszt with too much pedal and kept her fingernails so long that one heard them rap the piano keys.
Mentuccia was grateful for his distinction between the virtuosity necessary to play Liszt, and the passion necessary to do him justice.
"I don't play Liszt, who is the archpianist, or Rachmaninoff," he said, typically dwelling on his limitations rather than his positive attributes.
She will play Liszt, Faure, Schumann and Chopin among others.
Take this chance to hear him play Beethoven, Debussy, Liszt and more.