Liszt Ballade 2 Bonn Beethoven-Haus Lisitsa on 97 keys

Finally a chance to use all 97 keys, live , on video :-)
In the original score , the decending broken octaves passage ( so-called martellato, around 8:00") is reduced in left hand to a single line at the bottom , when Liszt-times piano run out of keys to decsend. The effect of using the missing lower octave - particulalry in live setting - is simply stupendous. There is nothing that can match sound of roaring Imperial extra-low notes! It has to be heard live - or at least in analogue recording ( that I am going to make very soon , a "Liszt project " ) . This is the piano I am going to use :-) Bosy rules !!!!

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• Ballade
• Liszt
• Beethoven-Haus
• BonnGerd
• Finkelstein
• Boesendrofer
• Imperial
• 97
• keys
• Valentina
• Валентина
• Лисица

[foodiste]

I am so glad you have performed this. Im a Liszt fan and this is one i've never heard! And i like it too... Beautiful performance!

[ValentinaLisitsa]

@foodiste this is one of pieces that suffered a lot with advent of CD. It used to be very popular -but the impact it has in live performance , or on LP is 10 times as big as in digital. The sonority Liszt envisioned is just amazing.

[K189T]

To write the passage at 1:11, Liszt was to be nothing less than genius.

[123Scears123]

Wonderful! Thank you. I'm ashamed to say I've never heard this before.

[Oogabooga753]

I am certain this is the best performance of this piece that is out there right now. Somebody correct me if I'm wrong.

[kGmusicpage]

But really 7:50 -9:00 was fucking outstanding, the ending of that with the low octave keys sounded like thunder I bet live that was chills central

[kGmusicpage]

The best part of this video was 0:00 - 14:40

[kGmusicpage]

anyone get the impression especially the zoomed out view almost out of body like she isn't really playing it and something else is controlling her hands??

[kGmusicpage]

best piano player I have ever seen live or video

[FountainofFire]

me & my girlfriend had sex to this ballade. liszt for life!

[stewarttango]

Amazing!!



[ssprokofiev]

A brilliant performance of a great work! When one thinks of Ballade, the name Chopin comes to mind, but here is a work to stand alongside the four by Chopin. If I had to choose a handful of keyboard composers to take to a desert island, Liszt, Chopin, Beethoven, Brahms, Rachmaninov and Prokofiev would be the best choices.

[franknhonest]

Beautiful piece of music, super playing.