F. Liszt Funerailles

[doxy]

F. Liszt
"Funérailles" from Harmonies Poétiques et Religieuses
Impromptu recording session

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Many thanks for listening!

[pianistimo]

i think it's too loud.  basically because the 'buzz' is there.  i was told never to play to the point where the piano has extraneous noises of buzzing or rattling.  so that means everything else (all the other dynamics) have to be cut down to size.  interestingly - it works.  i mean playing softer.  it's just more subtle. 

i like the religious part.  your pianissimos are very much to my liking.  and wow- this is gorgeous.  wait - the ending is too loud again for me - but wow - this is peaking like some kind of supercharged cell in a thunderstorm.

ooh.  my favorite part - the 'crazy' section.  you play this so amazing!  your octaves would be so much easier to play if it were slightly less loud - but no matter.  doxy has morphed into 'the being.'  i mean - the being of liszt.  i think he was semi-irreligous to write this and think it had spiritual significance - but no matter - he was a crazy nut like the rest of them.

this is amazing playing, doxy.  really - i don't know why i bother to write critiques for you.  perhaps it's my way of unloading what alistair dumps on me about talking too loudly about the bible.

[prongated]

i don't know why i bother to write critiques for you. perhaps it's my way of unloading what alistair dumps on me about talking too loudly about the bible.

...awwwwww

...mmm wow I thought the beginning is a march procession...not a mass of suicide bombers 'parading' around the streets! The staccato-marked notes in the slow minor section isn't particularly stylistic either...the slow major section is again too fast to my liking, but this one at least makes some sense.

...otherwise this is quite a good effort! Strong hands and fingers in that octave section...