After a highly successful recordings of works by Brahms, the Schumanns, and Chopin, Imogen Cooper plunges into the world of another great romantic, Franz Liszt, and places him alongside that other giant, Richard Wagner. This is an evocative programme of original compositions and intimate transcriptions, ranging from poetic movements from the Années de Pèlerinage: Italie to dark and deeply elegiac pieces, including Liszt's La lugubre gondola I and...

This stimulating recital from Stephen Hough spans centuries and styles with assurance. Chopin's Piano Sonata No. 2 and Hough's own Piano Sonata No. 4 are the twin peaks in a program that includes the unlikely pairing of Liszt's Funérailles and Gounod's Ave Maria.