This selection of interpretations of the Liszt Liebestraum N°3 contains recordings from almost every decade of the first half of the 20th century, and there are several by young contemporary pianists. Over 130 years separate the birth of the youngest and oldest of these pianists.
The Liszt Liebestraum is an excessively popular piece, by which I do not mean that it does not deserve its popularity, rather, that it is easy enough to play the notes and anyone with a passable technique can get through it. Alas, they all do. You will rediscover, below, the why of its immense popularity and its sublime beauty when played by a great artist.
SOPHIA AGRANOVICH Ukranian Pianist
DANIEL BARENBOIM Argentinian Pianist (b.1942)
VAN CLIBURN American Pianist (b.1934)
MICHEL DALBERTO French Pianist (b.1955)
LEOPOLD GODOWSKY Polish-American Pianist (1870-1938) Recorded in 1925
GARY GRAFFMAN American Pianist (b 1928) Recorded in 1960
JOZEF HOFMANN Polish-American Pianist (1876-1957) Recorded in 1912
VALENTINA IGOSHINA Russian Pianist (b 1978) Recorded in 2009
FREDERIC LAMOND Scottish Pianist (1868–1948) Student of Franz Liszt Recorded in 1936
LANG LANG Chinese Pianist (b.1982)
YUNDI LI Chinese Pianist (b.1982) winner of the 2000 International Chopin Competition
ISABELLE OEMICHEN French Pianist (Contemporary) Recorded live in 2007
VLADIMIR de PACHMANN Russian-German Pianist (1848-1933) Recorded in 1912
MORIZ ROSENTHAL Austro-Hungarian Pianist (1862-1946) Student of Franz Liszt Recorded in 1929 or 1930
ARTUR RUBINSTEIN Polish-American Pianist (1887-1982)
WALTER RUMMEL German-English Pianist (1887-1953) Student of Leopold Godowsky Recorded in 1942
EMIL von SAUER German Pianist (1862-1942) Student of Franz Liszt Recorded c.1925
