The debut album by BBC New Generation artist Lukas Sternath is a two-disc set featuring works by Franz Schubert and Franz Liszt, released on NO SILENCE RECORDS, the new label founded by Igor Levit. Sternath first came to international prominence when he won the 2022 ARD International Music Competition, taking home an extraordinary seven prizes. Levit, Sternath’s teacher at the University of Music, Drama & Media in Hanover, Germany as well as a close mentor and friend, gave him complete artistic freedom in shaping the program. The first disc brings together five Schubert songs in Liszt’s celebrated piano transcriptions alongside Schubert’s Wanderer Fantasy. The second is devoted entirely to Liszt, featuring “Deuxième Année: Italie” from Années de Pèlerinage, culminating in the vast and visionary Fantasia quasi Sonata: Après une lecture du Dante. Lukas Sternath makes his solo recital debut at Chicago Symphony Center in December.