Audio will be available later today. The 1934 film Murder at the Vanities features Duke Ellington and his band playing Ebony Rhapsody -- their version of Liszt's Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2. The music is ...

In this edition of the award-winning composer series from HBO, Franz Liszt, portrayed wonderfully by Geordie Johnson, is one of Europe's finest pianists, rich and famous beyond compare, but he is ...

Franz Liszt paid homage to gypsy music in his Hungarian Rhapsodies, infusing them with his own creative energy. It's an approach the Roma and Sinti Philharmonic shares, rendering classics with an eye ...

At Classic FM’s Rising Stars, a 19-year-old star pianist played an impressively brisk, compelling rendition of Liszt’s Hungarian Rhapsody No.2. That pianist was Jeneba Kanneh-Mason – a rising piano ...

The small Austrian town of Raiding is celebrating the 200th anniversary of the birth of its most famous son, composer and pianist Franz Liszt. But wasn't the author of all those Hungarian rhapsodies ...

Earl Wild Pianist Earl Wild celebrates his 90th birthday on Saturday, Nov. 26. Wild talks with Fred about his life and career. He shares a previously unreleased concert performance he gave at Wigmore ...

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BUDAPEST (Reuters Life!) - He was the world's first musical superstar, a bigger-than-life personality with a wild mane of hair who seated adoring women around his piano onstage and had his own "mania" ...

Like what you heard at the Spokane Symphony this past weekend, or want to know what you missed? Music critic Larry Lapidus shares his recommended recordings of works on the symphony program. Franz ...

Sponsored by the Embassy of Hungary in Canberra, internationally acclaimed Hungarian pianist, Endre Hegedűs, will perform the first of five Liszt Bicentennial 2011 charity concerts in quake stricken ...