Misha Dacic’ concerts at the Miami Piano Festival in recent years made a sensational impact (check out Misha Dacic on Youtube). They show that appearances do not deceive: he looks and actually is a wizard. A true artist, with limitless technique, and the ability to conjure up unheard-of tonal effects from the piano, to turn that “miserable instrument” (Beethoven) into a an orchestra of the most amazing timbres and sonorities. Dacic affinity with Liszt shows in the selection of pieces on this new CD, presenting facets of the multi-faced genius, centred around three masterpieces, the epic B-A-C-H Variations, the seldom heard “Grosses Konzertsolo” and the infernal Dante Sonata, in which Dacic incorporates elements from all three versions Liszt made prepare for some surprises!). As a suitable conclusion to an adventurous and tumultuous artistic life he ends with the late piece La Lugubre Gondola.
