Donald Satz ([log in to unmask]) wrote: Deryk Barker wrote of Wes Crone's negative feelings of Liszt's music: > >>In other words you don't like it. Fair enough, but that's not the >>same as its being "pretentious pooh-pooh"(whatever that might mean). > >Wes will answer for himself, but I feel similar concerning Liszt. You >don't care for "pretentious pooh-pooh"? Here's another way of putting it. >When I listen to Liszt's music, I generally get the feeling that he's >promoting himself - Liszt for Liszt's sake. It's music that goes off in >overheated directions just to overheat. It's the worst excess of what >Romantic-era music has to offer. That's my subjective opinion. I do >feel differently concerning his late solo piano works. I just wonder which Liszt you're basing this assessment on, considering his enormous output. Deryk Barker [log in to unmask]