Well, I finally got around to listening to the Naxos Dante Symphony 2 piano version (with childrens chorus - I always understood it was just for 2 pianos and that was all so I was wrong!) and it is excellent.  Ok, I'm not terribly familiar with the original version but this is certainly well worth a listen!  The finale (Magnificat) is very well sung and the 2 pianists play extremely well - the first movement with it's powerful opening theme looses nothing in being arranged from orchestra to 2 pianos.
My only complaint about the disc is it's length - about 1 hour, a quarter of which is taken up with a transcription of the Dante Sonata for 2 pianos.  It augments the themes and adds some clever counterpoint in places but personally, I think the original version for solo piano, is better.  I personally think the remainder of the disc could easily have been filled with some of the other rarely recorded pieces by Liszt (the Festpolonaise, the Grossekonzertstucke on Mendelssohn, the Concerto Pathetique, the Schubert march transcriptions etc.etc.) rather than this.  It is very well played though! 

(I'll probably add to this later, if I feel like it!) 

Ho Andy D,
Yes, it's very good - although my favourite piece on that disc is "A la Chapelle Sixtine" - in fact, it's actually one of my favourite Liszt pieces full stop.  Must try and learn it properly once I've finished with the things I listed on the "Currently Working on" thread!

Only just found your post Jonathan but someone told me about the programme this morning so I'm grabbing it from LA at this very moment. I find David Owen Norris very entertaining.

GRRR, no I'm not, I've recorded it and it turns out to be The Wonder of Wunderlich from Saturday 24 February 2007!!! I thought these things were only online for 7 days.

I've emailed to complain btw.

Glad to hear it IGI!  I had a feeling that you would probably like them.  No new releases of Liszt much this month, I'm afraid but I'll keep everyone posted when I hear of more.

I'm currently listening to (in the car) all of Leslie Howard's Liszt at the Opera discs (all 12 of them!) which includes some of the pieces that you mentioned above (Lucretzia Borgia fantasies, etc.)

Andy,
You can borrow my time machine if it helps for listening to all the CDs! 

Sadly, my local library has no scores at all so that's really poor.  York central library is also fairly crap for scores, to be honest.

Earl Wild's recording of "Don Giovanni" is really erm...Wild, isn't it?  I have it with a series of other pieces called Showpieces for Piano and it includes some excellent Godowsky as well.

Scratch that - the Alkan marches arrived on Wednesday just gone.  Better late than never, I suppose!  Played no.1 through several times in the last few days - it's not actually too hard, i think the hardest part is probably the speed.  I'll put this reply on the Alkan thread as well in case anyone misses it!   

Hi Milly, yes, I heard it on the way to work. 
It was a very good recording - i know lots of people dislike that particular paraphrase becuase it is played very often on R3 but I still like it!  I've read a very snotty review of the rest of the disc though which was puzzling at least on the evidence of the piece we heard!