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@pianolover34 Maybe, but your ears, your opinion and your ego are only your own. I'm happy people are listening to Liszt with whatever ears they've got.
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@hd26R601 ah yes, Vikingur!
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Did he beat a record for the fastest Norma?
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Beatiful playing, breathtaking mastery of piano music! Bravo!!!
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I heard him play Shostakovich's piano concerto earlier this month and it was breathtaking, his mastery and ease at the keyboard are inspirational!
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Bravoooooo!!!!!!!I really like it :-) Beutiful .
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And I assure you he is an incredibly lovely person.
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@PSearPianist ... I'm not sure fellows like Alkan took to pianists improvising on their throughcomposed stuff! I also know that 4 staves is needed to make any sense of the 9-part fugue in Quasi Faust.
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Actually there is something very unmusical about scores for which the music is so complex that it has to be put on 3 or more staves. It creates an obstacle to spontaneous performance and leads one to wonder if it would be better presented in some simpler manner to be improvised on by the performer.
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@PSearPianist .... Agreed.... it is such a fabulous introduction to one of Bellini's great operas.... Wasn't it Raymond Lewenthal who recorded it? Methinks I had that record once, and I also found the music in some junkstore on the Bowery. A lot of the score (like the Henselt piano concerto and Quasi Faust by Alkan, both played by Lewenthal) was written on 4 lines...
He's outstanding!!
vv268 2 years ago 10
I like the way he projects what is important in this piece and keeps the accompaniment subservient. I remember when I was at school my music teacher bought the score of this along one day as an example of a piece he thought virtually unplayable. I am pleased that all these years later he is being proved wrong!
PSearPianist 2 years ago 8