The pianist, Steven Osborne, in this recording, plays quite well, but cannot be considered a first-line Liszt player like Jorge Bolet. I compared "Benediction de Dieu dans la solitude" by Osborne or Bolet, and there is an ocean favouring the second. The major problem with this cd, though, seems to be with the sound engineering. The low parts are too low and the high ones are too high. To get a proper listening one has to adjust the volume, lowering and raising it, in different parts of the record and this, of course, spoils the enjoyment.