Here is a recital with a difference – the choice of repertoire sufficiently wide-ranging to give an optimum view of Liszt’s endless scope and resource; the performances by Serbian pianist Misha Daci´c of a startling temperamental force and mastery. But of even greater interest is Daci´c’s stress on Liszt’s constant reworking of his material, the chameleon-like changes from one thing into another. Instead of giving us the Dante Sonata in its familiar version, he includes sections and reworkings from the first, second and third versions, with a radically different result. Here the opening is distant and clouded rather than hectoring and stentorian, and there are many thrilling reminders of Liszt’s unsettled nature, of how the notes of the score were hardly set in stone but could be constantly altered in the grandest and most improvisatory style of the times. Daci´c’s offering is given with immense flair, as heard in his treatment of the B-A-C-H Fantasia, a work that includes a passage which, as John Ogdon put it, storms across the entire keyboard and appears capable of carrying the heavens on its back. The inclusion of the Grosses Konzertsolo and ‘Ballade Ukraine’ is further proof of Daci´c’s enterprise, and so too is his final item, the first version of La lugubre gondola, a baleful and economical end to his programme. Daci´c is clearly a major talent, and he has been excellently recorded.