"...Alex McDonald had fire and brimstone bouncing off the walls ...McDonald handled Liszt's dense layering of notes with breathtaking fury, that included recoloring the normal chord sonorities by sustaining them for several bars at a time, with dramatic fluency..." Harold Duckett, Knoxville News-Sentinel

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Exploring History through Music:

A tireless advocate of the works of Franz Liszt, McDonald recently presented all-Liszt recitals in New Orleans, Dallas and New York to show Liszt as the ultimate Romantic. He is now looking into the endless diversity of works from composers who lived in the U.S.S.R.: from Rachmaninoff and Prokofiev to Schnittke and Gubaidulina.