Liszt's Totentanz: a guide to the best recordings

Jeremy Nicholas
Tuesday, January 10, 2023

Franz Liszt’s scintillating journey to the Underworld challenges pianists and thrills audiences. Jeremy Nicholas compares a selection of recordings of this diabolic masterpiece and selects his favourite

An illustration from The Middle Rhenish Totentanz (Dance of Death) – a book of texts and pictures published by Heinrich Knoblochtzer in c1450 (photography: history docu photo/Alamy Stock Photo)

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