This is the third instalment in Michael Halasz's ongoing cycle of Liszt's orchestral works for Naxos. These are forceful performances that remind us of Liszt's centrality in the history of classical music: Halasz plays up the overt debt to Berlioz in Festklänge and hammers home the point that Hunnenschlacht and Ce qu'on entend sur la montagne between them pre-empt almost every orchestral and harmonic innovation usually ascribed to Wagner, Tchaikovsky or Strauss.

Halasz's approach is at times hard-driven and there are moments when he doesn't quite attain the requisite level of Romantic introspection to offset the overriding sense of monumental awe.