Hawkwind - Kings Of Speed

Playing the works of other composers, Liszt treated them freely and relaxed. Since fidelity to the original, which today's performers take for granted, was not considered mandatory by the then public, freedom of interpretation was relatively large. This was also noted by Robert Schumann's bride, Clara, when she first heard Liszt in Vienna in 1838. Struck by his playing, she began to be pessimistic about her own career as a pianist. “He can play the same composition today this way, and tomorrow differently. Liszt always plays, but his soul is different each time. What he is in life, so is in creativity: a stormy, at times choleric demagogue who needs everything, everything - but a piano of the strongest construction. In general, he is capable of driving an instrument into the netherworld in one evening. ”