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Cue up Yekwon Sunwoo’s recent recording, Liszt, and brace yourself for fireworks. What comes first instead is song. For more than half an hour, nearly everything centers on melodies that once had words, Liszt’s textures, from lace to thunder, spun around them. The first selection is a song borrowed from a 19th-century duke. Three meditations

Settle into your seat as the lights go down. Onstage, the piano gleams in a pool of light, its lid raised like a sail. Then the first chord rings out, and the story is underway. A roomful of strangers becomes, for a little while, one audience, leaning in together. The protagonist of Corvallis-OSU Piano International’s