Liebestraum #3 (the one you know)

[arensky]

Hi y'all what do ya think of this one?

Favorite Records?

Hated Records?


Your opinion of the piece in general or in deatail.....funny stories about it? (there must be a few)

[viking]

I used to like it.  Then I heard an aweful performance of it in a competition.  I dont like it much anymore.  I would rather learn something else than waste my time on Liebestraume.
SAM

[Etude]

It's ok.  I would like it much more if it wasn't so overplayed/well known.

[nanabush]

I like it because it was my entrance point to Liszt, and is still the most difficult piece I can play by him... That piece is the reason I wanted to play more of Liszt stuff, too bad it's all so f**king difficult..

[marinated tofu]

Yeah I played this piece.  It was my first Liszt piece also.  I am not a huge Liszt fan; virtuositic: yes, anything else: not so much (In my less-than-knowledgable opinion of course).  Despite it being overplayed it is a lovely piece.  My teacher couldn't understand the german poem, so he made up his own words and sang along while I played.  Mostly he just sang "Oh my love, my love, my looooove, I love you so much my love".  Now I can't listen to it without hearing that (kinda like the g- fugue bk. 1 "My socks are dirty, and I don't give a damn.")  In conclusion:  nice piece, but wouldn't play it again, or recommend it.   

[thierry13]

I am not a huge Liszt fan; virtuositic: yes, anything else: not so much

If Liszt was only virtuosic and would have only wanted to show-off, he would have written way,WAY harder stuff. It is "virtuosic" for us who look at him like a technical master, but for him, it was technically easy to play. He looked at his music like if it was pretty easy (for him). He never wrote something that was at the limit of his technical capacities. Allways remember that. He wrote music for the sake of music, not virtuosity for the sake of it.

[pita bread]

Concurred.

[arensky]

             

                                     I second that