David Patrick Stearns (before coming around): “I was feeling personally betrayed whenever one of my favorite musicians came out with a Liszt anniversary-year recording. I nearly wept upon seeing Pierre Boulez’s granite-chiseled face appear on the cover of a Liszt piano concerto album with Daniel Barenboim … Yes, Boulez – the high-minded composer/conductor who has no time for Brahms and once thought Verdi was stupid. And now … Liszt?”