Deryk Barker wrote:

>Concerning Liszt's Symphonie Fantastique
>
>It suddenly occurred to me that the original message (unfortunately I
>have deleted it, so cannot attribute) may have been referring to Liszt's
>piano transcription of the Berlioz - it was this transcription, IIRC,
>that was the basis of Schumann's famously laudatory review of the
>symphony.

I think that Leslie Howard's recording is really good.  However, many
virtousic pieces from the first half of the 19th century would probably
benefit from being played on a piano with lighter action.

Mikael Rasmusson