your posts sound like richard kastle

eeh isn't Liszt like Kastle's long-lost great great grandpa/godfather?? After all, he knows exactly what Liszt wants in his music and adores that idea to death...
...but you know, in retrospect, there was an account of Liszt playing the piano "in the style of Chopin" that when ppl walk in, they were surprised it was Liszt sitting on the piano...
...for me, Il Lamento and some Transcendental Etudes (Chasse Neige, Ricordanza, maybe Harmonies and Mazeppa) and maybe even the 2 concert studies stand as musically interesting works...but I suppose everything else (this side of those late, pious works) is indeed showy stuff...
...but who cares? He is quite a fundamental figure in the development of piano music and recitals, even if in the non-musical aspects as it were...