Franz Liszt’s vir­tu­osic skill at the piano seemed to so entrance lis­ten­ers that both crit­ics and pub­lic attrib­uted satan­ic pow­ers to him. With the famed Mephisto Waltz no 1, the Gretchen piano tran­scrip­tion and the dev­il­ish­ly dif­fi­cult Sonata in B minor, pianist Jan Michiels illus­trates Liszt’s fas­ci­na­tion with Faust: the leg­endary schol­ar who makes a pact with the devil.