Liszt - Spanish Rhapsody, S254 (Hough) Audio + Sheet music

Franz Liszt's sunny Rhapsodie Espagnole, played by Stephen Hough. IMO, this performance is really playful, beautiful and elegant, spiced with the feeling of improvisation, from which this piece is very likely to have come out from beneath Liszt's fingers.

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[leoxThepianist]

I think the octaves from 10:50 are extremely difficult.... maybe technically the most difficult part of the piece

[madlovba03]

@leoxThepianist I don't think so. For me, such octaves are much easier than the scales and double notes. The part you mentioned is not very baneful; it is more spectacular than difficult (what else could represent this better than the fact that almost everybody, including Hough unfortunately, plays it too fast).

[PianoDaemon]

Stephen's performance is the best Rhapsodie Espagnole ever recorded, period.

[madlovba03]

@PianoDaemon I tend to agree :)

[FLR360]

4:13  to 4:42 my favorite part

[Laudan08]

Epic virtuoso part @10:18

[predoje]

Best performance of this composition.

[Rachmaninoffkid]

Octaves are easier and more showy than scales and double notes.

[JohnRift]

I think this might be one the most difficult pieces from Liszt, maybe harder than the hungarian rhapsodies.

[flicfan416]

Well, I've got a new favorite Rhapsodie Espagnole performance! Stephen Hough, you're a beast

[leoxThepianist]

@madlovba03 i'm totally agree with you, the part i have mentioned maybe should be played not so much fast....and listening again to the piece i can say is more spectacular than difficult as you say...i am misled by the speed..however in general i think this piece is very difficult both technically and for the interpretation!

[Victor1Piano]

Some passages (the "Allegro animato", for example) reminds a lot Schubert's Wanderer Fantasy!!!

[addeex1]

Awesome! But I wounder if there really should be a major dominant at 4:27. I think all scores indicates that it is a minor chord there.

[RWinkley02124]

There are some amazing riffs in this performance - off the page and off the chart! And I love his use of the pedal which in so many ways is used both coloristically (if such a word exists) and structurally - Bravo!