Tim Mahon:

>...  What of Borodin's comment on meeting Liszt in 1881 that "...Liszt
>is a real Balakirev." I make no case that Liszt's technique wasn't awesome,
>thrilling, stupendous, memorable etc....  merely that perhaps history has
>colored the extent to which it differed from others.

Since neither he nor his contemporaries recorded, we'll never know.  The
only thing we have is the contemporary account from people who heard them
all.  Honestly, all I know is what I read in Harold Schoenberg's The Great
Pianists and various other second-hand accounts.

Steve Schwartz