Young Italian pianist Leonardo Pierdomenico drew the international spotlights on him winning the Jury Award at the recent Van Cliburn Competition. Having already won the prestigious Premio Venezia in Italy he steadily builds his career, playing recitals and with prominent orchestras. His debut CD on Piano Classics features an impressive selection of piano works by Franz Liszt: the demonic and fiendishly difficult Scherzo und Marsch (still rarely played), the two dramatic Ballades, the two famous Légendes with their religious references, and a late work, the Csárdás Macabre, an astonishing and spine-tingling work featuring a remorseless sequence of parallel fifths. The booklet contains excellent liner notes written by the Chairman of the English Liszt Society: Mark Viner.