For Yoav Levanon, Franz Liszt is even more than “an artist whose impact on the music world is immeasurable”; the young pianist sees the composer as “a supportive, loving and understanding presence” in his career. Now Levanon has recorded the twelve Études d’exécution transcendante, a peak of the Romantic piano repertoire. “This project was never about virtuosity for its own sake,” he says, “These works are layered, complex, and endlessly revealing.”