The word 'listen' contains the same letters as the word 'silent'.

Since the 1970s Brendel has recorded for Philips Classics Records. He called it "The Fugue In Piano Literature" and as well as fugal works by Johann Sebastian Bach Johannes Brahms and Franz Liszt it included some of Brendel's own compositions. Brendel gave his first public recital in Graz at the age of 17.