Années de pèlerinage: complete recording (Lazar Berman) (1977)

"Slightly more warmth and detail emerges in DGs 20-bit remastering of Lazar Bermans 1977 recording of Liszts Années de pèlerinage compared to the labels earlier CD edition. As a technician, Berman is extraordinary in terms of sheer evenness, control, and rhythmic panache, yet he always channels his considerable craft toward musical ends. Its a relief, for example, to hear octave passages in Orage, Vallée dObermann, and the Dante Sonata shaped in sentence-like phrases rather than banged out. In turn, the Tarantellas repeated notes sound like quicksilver pearls rather than pellets. This set remains the reference Années de pèlerinage." (Jed Distler, Classics Today; cijfers: 10 voor artistic quality en een 9 voor sound quality; klik op onderstaande link voor complete tekst)