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Christopher O'Riley

Marco Sanguinetti: Cómo desaparecer completamente

by Geno Thackara
October 13, 2016

Devoting an entire album to another artist's songs is a tradition with, let's say, a checkered history. It can be done out of anything from genuine love to simple goofy novelty. The results are sometimes honorable or even transcendent, other times often pointless copies or cheap money grabs (remember that early-noughties flood of string quartet tributes ...

Christopher O'Riley: O’Riley’s Lizst

By Christopher O'Riley

Label: Oxingale Records
Released: 2013
Track listing: CD1: Mozart/Liszt--Reminiscences de Don Juan; Schumann/Liszt--Fruhlingsnacht; Wagner/Liszt/Moszkowski/O’Riley--Prelude und Liebestod from Tristan Und Isolde; Schubert/Liszt--Fruhlingsglaube. CD2: Berlioz/Liszt--Symphonie Fantastique (Five Movements).

Christopher O'Riley: O’Riley’s Lizst

by C. Michael Bailey
May 3, 2013

Hungarian pianist and composer Franz Liszt (1811-86) made a career as the consummate concert showoff. He fully learned to be a showoff from fiddler Nicolo Paganini (1782--1840), who, with Liszt, championed the idea of the “Artist as Hero." Previously, it had not been so fashionable for an artist to outshine the composer whose music he or ...