Loudest piano piece ever...

[comme_le_vent]

im listening to horowitz playing his transcription of liszt's hungarian rhapsody no 15, its VERY VERY loud, and VERY VERY good.
out of curiosity, what are the loudest piano pieces ever composed?

Yours Bombastically,
Comme Le Vent

[xtopher]

Maybe this can sound weird but i read a book which said that Chopin was the composer who has the loudest music (talking about piano music).

[Clare]

I know what the loudest piano piece ever is. It was my sister pounding out Take Me Out to the Ballgame fffffffff style seventeen million times in a row.
Man, those were dark days.

[thracozaag]

im listening to horowitz playing his transcription of liszt's hungarian rhapsody no 15, its VERY VERY loud, and VERY VERY good.
out of curiosity, what are the loudest piano pieces ever composed?

Yours Bombastically,
Comme Le Vent

That's 'cause you haven't heard mine yet.

 Loudest thing I've ever heard:
Horowitz playing the 3rd movement as an encore from a bootleg recital from 1969..it's incomprehensible how someone of that advanced age can wreak such havoc.

[comme_le_vent]

3rd mvt of what?

by the way - this is a serious thread, make jokes if you will, but dont ignore the point at hand

please?

other candidates - horowitz - stars and stripes forever trans,
parts of ornstein's wild men's dance

over to you.........

[thracozaag]

3rd mvt of what?

by the way - this is a serious thread, make jokes if you will, but dont ignore the point at hand

please?

other candidates - horowitz - stars and stripes forever trans,
parts of ornstein's wild men's dance

over to you.........

 Sorry..3rd movement of the Rach. 2nd Sonata.  The final interlocking chordal passage was so loud, I couldn't even discern what notes he was playing.  Just a wall of sound.
 Honorable mention also goes to his Liszt Scherzo and March, St. Francis Walking on the Waves and Rach. 39 #9 Etude Tableaux.

[allchopin]

Totentanz starts loud,
Chopin's Etude #10 in B minor is non-stop sans the lyric middle section,
Heroic Poloniase is semi-loud (more constantly f), & Chopin's Prelude #24 is radical and chock full of decibels.

[Clare]

OK, I won't be silly anymore, I promise.

There is a piano trio by Gaspar Cassado which I've heard goes up to FFFFFFF (seven fs) and is really fast at the end. Maybe that's one of the loudest ever written. The loudest piece ever PLAYED, however is another matter.

[liszmaninopin]

I second Horowitz's Rach Sonata 2; he also gets pretty loud in those chord passages at the end of the second page, first movement.

Also, I've heard some performances of Ive's Concord Sonata that were bombastically (that's a fun word) loud.