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Review title: eccentric and irritating
Product review: Szidon's interpretations (and they are very much interpretations) are downright weird. He messes with everything, it seems, just to sound different. The tempi are off, he adds awful cadenzas and other passages of his own, and misses the spirit of these pieces entirely. Of course, it was standard practice in Liszt's day not to play the notes as written. In fact, such was expected of any good pianist. But these interpretations are just willfully eccentric, and they destroy the music rather than enhance it. Buy the Jeno Jando versions on the Naxos label--they're cheaper and MUCH better.
