Franz Liszt constitutes, along with Chopin and Brahms, François-René Duchâble’s “Holy Trinity” of composers, he incessantly performed on stage and in the studio. The collection of twelve Études d'exécution transcendante, of a daunting difficulty, has probably found one of its best advocate with this 1998 recording. They are coupled with the two Legends Liszt composed during his retreat in a Dominican monastery near Rome.
