[tim_j_thomas]

Just picked up this CD -- fantastic. Any other recommendations for similar works?

Amazon.com: Liszt: Les Preludes, Mazeppa, Ungarische Rhapsodie No.4, Smetana: Vysehrad, Die Moldau: Music: Franz Liszt,Bedrich Smetana,Herbert von Karajan,Berliner Philharmoniker

 

[FalconP]

These are tone poems; Liszt wrote a dozen of them. For a complete set, go for the two Haitink 2-for-1s under Philips (here and here) or the Masur box.

For similar music, try the tone poems by Richard Strauss, the orchestral excerpts by Wagner, or tone poems by Tchaikovsky

 

[Facade19]

Liszt's Piano Concertos as well as Totentanz are wonderful.
If you want large scale orchestral work try his Dante and Faust Symphonies.
I have a Liszt CD released by DECCA where Solti and Lopez are conducting two of his tone poems (Les Preludes and Prometheus) as well as his Dante and Faust Symphonies. Really enjoy listening to it.

 

[mbhaub]

There's also the six Hungarian Rhapsodies in orchestral transcription. Fischer on Philips is tops. Les Preludes is certainly Liszt's most famous and popular work, and deservedly so. None of the other Symphonic Poems is quite on it's level. BTW, you happen to have what is generally considered the best recording of that work ever made.