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« Reply #50 on: June 23, 2008, 06:32:26 AM »
The preludes of Debyssy.
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« Reply #51 on: June 23, 2008, 02:56:00 PM »
o rly?
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« Reply #52 on: June 29, 2008, 09:19:12 PM »
Quote from: Etude on June 23, 2008, 02:56:00 PM
o rly?
Does a fragmented French airport really have an indelible connection to the piano preludes of one of that country's great composers?...

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« Reply #53 on: June 30, 2008, 02:16:04 AM »
That was an abbreviation (and internet meme) of "oh, really?".

And I would say that those preludes are definitely not the hardest piano pieces. Not by a longshot.
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« Reply #54 on: June 30, 2008, 03:12:27 AM »
How many more "hardest piece" threads do there have to be before people realise that there isn't an answer to this question...  especially when there are pieces out there for solo piano that aren't even physically possible to play (like Cogluotobusisletmesi or Evryali).
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« Reply #55 on: June 30, 2008, 03:33:36 AM »
Quote from: Etude on June 30, 2008, 03:12:27 AM
How many more "hardest piece" threads do there have to be before people realise that there isn't an answer to this question...  especially when there are pieces out there for solo piano that aren't even physically possible to play (like Cogluotobusisletmesi or Evryali).

Some people play Evryali, no?
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« Reply #56 on: June 30, 2008, 04:02:29 AM »
Yeah, many people do. I saw it performed once by Gloria Cheng, who basically is one of those pianists with a superhuman technique.
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« Reply #57 on: June 30, 2008, 04:29:45 AM »
Quote from: thierry13 on June 30, 2008, 03:33:36 AM
Some people play Evryali, no?

I meant impossible to play 100%.  eg. Henck played Cogluotobusisletmesi, but left out half the notes. 
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« Reply #58 on: June 30, 2008, 06:24:25 AM »
Quote from: retrouvailles on June 30, 2008, 02:16:04 AM
That was an abbreviation (and internet meme) of "oh, really?".
I knew that, actually. Oh, never mind...

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« Reply #59 on: June 30, 2008, 07:32:55 PM »
Ahinton's sense of humour is obviously not understood by everyone Tongue
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« Reply #60 on: June 30, 2008, 09:27:45 PM »
I didn't actually know it was an airport.  I had merely known that it was a city.
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« Reply #61 on: July 03, 2008, 05:35:05 PM »
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« Reply #62 on: July 05, 2008, 02:08:29 AM »
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« Reply #63 on: July 07, 2008, 07:02:06 PM »
Standard rep?  Prokofiev and Rachmaninoff and Bartok concerti make the highest physical demands, whereas Brahms 2 pushes difficulty in terms of awkwardness in addition to very high demands.
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« Reply #64 on: September 21, 2008, 11:20:12 PM »
Satie's "Vexations"

Can't think of anything harder than that...
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« Reply #65 on: September 22, 2008, 10:49:22 AM »
grrrrr....
another one of these!
why is it never the most beautiful piece? or something like that...
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« Reply #66 on: September 22, 2008, 01:16:40 PM »
Because people are obsessed with competition.
It's an animal thing, being the alpha male and all...

"What is hardest?", "Who is fastest?", "Who has the largest middle finger?"

It's all pretty pointless if you ask me

But there actually is a "Most beautiful piece" thread
http://www.pianostreet.com/smf/index.php/topic,25297.0.html
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« Reply #67 on: September 22, 2008, 01:55:14 PM »
Everything is a competition these days isn't it?!
There are plenty of differences is the wird "hardest". There is Balakirev: Islamey, which is one of the hardest pieces techniqually... Uhm... Then there is Chopin's forth ballade, which is very difficult (maybe not THE most, but still very hard) musically, and techniqually. and so on...
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« Reply #68 on: September 25, 2008, 11:50:01 AM »
stuff from xenakis and finnisy.
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« Reply #69 on: September 25, 2008, 11:58:23 AM »
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Quote from: mephisto on June 30, 2008, 07:32:55 PM
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You speak for yourself (no one else is likely to do so).

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