Liszt - Grand Concert Solo (Part 1)

Grosses Konzertsolo S. 176 (1851)

Dedicated to Adolf von Henselt, the Grand Concert Solo was a large-scale virtuoso piece that baffled many of Liszt's contemporaries. Henselt himself declared that it was unplayable and the Schumanns similarly denounced it as a "bombastic" and impossibly difficult piece. It never received much attention in the 19th-century and continues to be neglected today.

Leslie Howard calls this work the Sonata in B minor "junior" and there is actually not as much empty technical display as found in many of Liszt's operatic fantasies and etudes. It is a stern even profound work of surprising lyricism, sonorous piano-writing, and arresting harmonic turns.

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• sonata
• minor
• henselt

[DEEZA95]

it's great, but leslie howard has something I don't know... i don't like his sounds...

[Hexameron]

I don't mind intelligent criticism, but when you kept making terse comments equivalent to "this sucks," I suspected you might be a troll hoping to spam my videos with such remarks.

I see now that's not the case. Thanks for clarifying your perspective.

[biselclassics]

a great work - unfortunately howerd plays it - as like many of his liszt works - in an very professoral ( might be called also "uninspired") way. Sometimes quantity and quality do not go hand in hand.

[Dominique1908]

@Democratura ciao con

[Democratura]

@Dominique1908 Du bist schwerhörig!:) Du hast kein feines Ohr für die Musik: ES IST NICHT "1/2 ton au dessus". Im Alter von neun Jahren, habte ich schon ein absolutes Ohr! Auf jeden Fall ist dieses Stück eine verrückte Scheiße!:) Ciao!

[Democratura]

@Dominique1908 bist du taub? Es ist nicht "1/2 ton au dessus". Mah! Chi genti!

[Democratura]

@Maspixxx Wenn dieses Stück so schön wie schwer wäre, ein schönes Stück sein würde. Aber dieses Stück ist nur schwer. Deswegen ist es nur wie die Nacht hässlich.

[FountainofFire]

this is AMAZING. i love this piece. one of my favorites from the great liszt

[loboris1995]

who is playing?