Need your opinions

[brsmpianist]

Hello,

Question; which concerto would you consider to be TECHNICALLY harder, the Grieg or Liszt Eb?  I know they have the same kind of technique involved, but which is more difficult?  I would preferably like opinions from people who've played these concertos... thanks guys!

ps... i have small hands.

[thierry13]

Liszt, undoubtly.

[apion]

Liszt

[kreso]

Liszt of course!!

In Grieg you have some places which sounds very hard, but there are not so hard..
And in Liszt everything is hard, especialy if you have the small hands-the starting octaves are not piece of cake...

[jas]

Just to be original ... Liszt.

[alzado]

Well, I don't mean to seem negative or to make light of your concerns.

However, really, who cares?  You either can play it or you can't.

I only write this because so many posts seem to sound out forum members on "list the difficulty of these ____  pieces."

Is this a "boy scout merit badge" school of piano playing, where one gets "points" for playing a piece slightly harder than another?

Moreover, there are pieces that SEEM easy, but are often badly played because they demand an interpretive finesse in the performance.  When you say "more difficult" do you refer to just hitting all the keys?

As I said, you can either play one of these pieces or you can't.  You either want to play it very much, or you don't.  Whether it is 0.1333 percent more or less difficult is "macht nicht." 

Sorry if I may have offended-- wishing you well.