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Composer of the Week: Liszt

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Today Donald Macleod traces the course of Liszt's stardom and how it led to a meeting with Marie d'Agoult, the married woman with whom he had a tempestuous affair and eloped to Switzerland and Italy.
Liebestraum No 3 (O Lieb, So Lang Du Lieben Kannst) Claudio Arrau (piano)
Annees de Pelerinage, Book 1 (Switzerland) Lazar Berman (piano)
Apres une Lecture de Dante (Annees de Pelerinage, Book 2) Alfred Brendel (piano)
Vergiftet Sind Meine Lieder
Thomas Hampson (baritone), Geoffrey Parsons (piano)
Gretchen (A Faust Symphony)
Berlin PO, conductor Simon Rattle

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Presenter:
Donald Macleod
Source: Radio Times

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