I don't really know anything about your playing. You haven't really mentioned much.Daniel
If you:1) are good in fast double octaves2) have ability to create wonderful 30-minutes-music from few motifs3) can play page no.13 then I would give it a try.
It is a life-changing work, even if you just try to learn it.Good luck.
The difficulties of this sonata has nothing to do with technic.
Some of them do!Walter Ramsey
It has a lot to do with the technic...
This piece is of course technicly difficult to play. But if you are worried about technical issues than you are not ready for piece.
No am worried about its historic and political as well as its musical contenet, and Liszt psycological out-look on life when he wrote it, also on its harmonic musical and symphonic conitation along with its litral significance amongs the late 19th century and early 20th century writters, the tecknical part is the easy bit.
it isn't a piece hard to sight read(i did it often), it's a hard piece to interpret, and play VERY cleanly. Best of lucks
This is an interesting quote from the musicologist, composer and pianist Tovey, writing about the late Beethoven sonatas; however the idea is applicable also in this case!"...It is no use deferring the study of such music until you feel ripe for it... Those who recognise that they are unready for it must remember that experience cannot come except by experience; and therefore its foundations must be well and truly laid in youth. No criticism is so mean and mischievous as that which discourages young players from playing great music accurately because 'correctness is not enough.' Who supposes that? But when your accuracy has become habitual you will be able to think of the music without thinking of yourself..."
Of course reading for inspiration never hurt anybody, but I want to present the reverse side of the coin here: that music is in the end music, and can also be understood from its own point of view.
Great posts.I recomend everybody to read Alan Walker`s Liszt biography.It may scare you away from learning this sonata
. I'd start work on it today, if I were you.
The Liszt sonata is a massive massive piece.