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