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Pianist Leslie Howard has recorded everything Franz Liszt ever wrote for the piano, an endeavor that put him into the Guinness Book of World Records.by Boyce Lancaster - WOSUColumbus OHPianist Leslie Howard has recorded everything Franz Liszt ever wrote for the piano – 97 CDs, 120 hours, including 300+ world premieres, many of which remain unpublished. It was a 14 year journey which entailed playing 12 miles of printed music, between 9 and 10 million notes. This endeavor put him into the Guinness Book of World Records. As a follow up, he recorded all of Beethoven's piano music, including a 2 piano reduction of his 9th Symphony. Boyce Lancaster spoke with Howard about this Herculean undertaking.
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Pianist Leslie Howard
