Leslie Howard’s recordings of Liszt’s complete piano music, on 99 CDs, is one of the monumental achievements in the history of recorded music. Remarkable as much for its musicological research and scholarly rigour as for Howard’s Herculean piano playing, this survey remains invaluable to serious lovers of Liszt.

Every known note of Liszt’s piano music has been recorded and is included here: Leslie Howard’s 57 original volumes plus the further 3 supplements.

Guinness World Record for the world’s largest recording series by a solo artist.

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Contents:
CDs 1–6: Études & early works
From CDA66771/2, CDA66973, CDA66357, CDA67193 & CDA67015

CDs 7–19: Major original compositions
From CDA66601/2, CDA67026, CDA67107, CDA66448, CDA66301, CDA66421/2, CDA67187, CDA66302, CDA66429, CDA66388 & CDA66445

CDs 20–29: Dances, marches, transcriptions of Liszt’s own works
From CDA66201, CDA66811/2, CDA66466, CDA66593, CDA66694, CDA66995, CDA67161/2 & CDA67034

CDs 30–36: Pieces on national themes
From CDA66787, CDA66851/2, CDA67418/9, CDA67235 & CDA67145

CDs 37–49: Operatic fantasies, transcriptions & paraphrases
From CDA66371/2, CDA66571/2, CDA66861/2, CDA67101/2, CDA67231/2, CDA67406/7 & CDA66575

CDs 50–61: Concert transcriptions
From CDA66438, CDA66433, CDA66346, CDA66984, CDA66761/2, CDA66506, CDA67004, CDA66481/2 & CDA66661/2

CDs 62–69: Beethoven transcriptions
From CDA66671/5 & CDA67111/3

CDs 70–79: Schubert transcriptions
From CDA66951/3, CDA66954/6, CDA66957/9 & CDA67203

CDs 80–94: Rare works, new discoveries
From CDA67233/4, CDA67408/10, CDA67414/7, CDA67346, CDA67455, CDA67810, CDA67045 & CDA66683

CDs 95–99: Music for piano & orchestra + bonus disc
From CDA67401/2 & CDA67403/4

Total Duration: 7255'52 (= 5 days + a few hours)

‘Leslie Howard’s Herculean Liszt cycle … [His] performances … are exemplary, with all the commitment you would expect from a Lisztian of such tireless industry’ - Gramophone

‘So we learn more about this extraordinary composer, thanks to that rare combination of Howard’s scholarly musicianship … and fearless keyboard technique, allied to the ongoing commitment of Hyperion Records – without which the entire musical world would be so much the poorer’ - International Record Review

‘Howard is, by general consensus, the finest living exponent of Liszt, and his traversals afford all-enveloping verve and charisma, tremendous daring and a formidable intellectual grasp of the music … his vastly superior performances will continue to carry the day’ - BBC Music Magazine

‘The most adventurous, most consistently realised, and grandest project in recording history’ - Fanfare, USA