for the piano #2: Beethoven vs. Liszt vs. Schumann

Liszt I'm not especially familiar with, the piano pieces I know are somewhat trifling in an appealing way, or saccharine in quality. I don't know the major works at all and I'd be interested in recommendations.

The late pieces are where it's at. Cédric Tiberghien's Années de pèlerinage, troisième année & other late works, which came out earlier this year, makes for a solid primer, but my single most cherished Liszt piano recital may well be Krystian Zimerman's for DG, featuring the Piano Sonata, Nuages gris, La lugubre gondola, Funérailles and La notte.

Chopin mops the floor with all three of these guys, he is the greatest of all the piano composers and there is no disputing it.

listening to a "Liszt in Hungary" set that's got other stuff inc. a really biff-bam-pow Carl Maria von Weber piece and in drops Chopin, Mazurka in B Minor, and he's just...so fine.