Haiou Zhang CD Album – Liszt: Piano works For Sale

Haiou Zhang, one of the best Chinese pianists of the younger generation, recorded 2010 in the Berlin Siemensvilla for DeutschlandRadio on a C. Bechstein concert grand piano D 282 a Liszt program, which appeared in January 2011 on his debut CD for Hänssler Classic.

Suitable for Franz Liszt s 200th birthday, the virtuoso played among other things Liszt s B-Minor Sonata, which Hans von Bülow premiered on January 22, 1857, in Berlin on a Carl Bechstein grand piano made available for the occasion.

In addition, Zhang Haiou presents Les jeux d eaux à la Villa d’Este from Années de pèlerinage, Funérailles from Harmonies poétiques et religieuses, St. François d Assise préchant aux oiseau from Deux Légendes and Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2 arranged by Vladimir Horowitz (1903-1989). Worth listening!

With this recording Haiou Zhang, celebrates Liszt year in masterly and inclusive style. The B minor Sonata is at the heart of his programme and here, in music once considered technically unplayable and musically incomprehensible, he recreates a visionary masterpiece and a landmark in the history of music with exceptional grandeur and lucidity (…) Haiou Zhang is a most serious artist.
– Bryce Morrison, Gramophone