Liszt - Au bord d'une source (Cecile Licad, 2002)

This live performance of Ms. Cecile Licad was held in Singapore in 2002.

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Music

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• Licad
• Liszt
• Argerich
• Kissin
• Langlang
• Cziffra

[grdiii]

Do you play this piece? Considering your remarks, I think not. This is not the first version, which would sound more like an ocean on a modern piano . It is "By a Spring" not "A Spring". The spring would be one in the Swiss Alps but the piece is not about the spring. I do play this piece and I think that Licad plays it wonderfully. If you played it, you would be appreciate her consumate artistry much more. It is tremendously tricky to pull off. The rubato is perfect.

[danbar73]

danbar 73

A wonderful lyrical Liszt. Bravo!!! Thanks for posting.

[tsukun999]

:D



[Pischnaholic]

A meditative, reflective, rather wistful reflection on a gentle, trickling spring. Very lovely in its own way.

I do prefer Horowitz's more energetic, refreshing view of a younger more more forceful kind of spring, but that may be because I have been used to it for sixty years.

Cécile Licad is an artist of the highest rank. I love and respect all her playing, and enjoyed this alternative view of Au bord ... immensely.

[camaysar222]

I do hear imitations of flowing and falling water, and undulation of landscape in Liszt's piano writing here. That does color my conception. It's true that his first of 2 versions are generally denser (well, the etudes have 3), but I don't know the first of Au bord, Do you know where her unusual readings in a couple of spots come from? I've never heard them before. Is there an alternate version? By the way, I like her interpretation the more I hear it! Peace to you and yours.

[camaysar222]

Interpretation is a personal thing. I shouldn't have blankly said what I did. I did acknowledge that others love her performance. She is a fine pianist. I just differ in my own conception. Actually, my comments might be expected from one who does play the piece. I posted it here (shortly before I heard Licad) though it was recorded on my computer's microphone. I hope you like it, though it may be too straightforward for your taste.

[camaysar222]

Too much rubato. A spring flows smoothly, whether it is a trickle or a torrent. Interesting text, with some unusual notes. Is this the first version??? Must be. I do like Cecile Licad, but she's got this one wrong. But others love her playing here, so it's just me. And that's a good thing.

[whenultra]

quiet is better in this piece, chases away the demons that can be found in much of liszt's music, fine performance, "see a landscape in my head that is like a fine poussin,seeming small yet large.

[pianochem]

Very nice. I love your interpretation!