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Offline donjuan

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Liszt: Ballade No. 2 Live recording
on: December 09, 2006, 06:50:56 PM
Recorded in concert June 10, 2006.  Feel free to comment.  :)

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Re: Liszt: Ballade No. 2 Live recording
Reply #1 on: December 10, 2006, 11:57:54 AM
Aside from the recording quality I find it a very good and musical performance.  :)

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Re: Liszt: Ballade No. 2 Live recording
Reply #2 on: January 14, 2007, 12:40:28 AM
this is a monster piece.  probably a monster to record the first part, too.  once it got out of the bass - i could hear what you were doing.  it takes a lot of time to learn it well, and the soft melodic parts (to control them as you hear them in your head).  good job.  the piece keeps growing on you - but you have to keep practicing it.  i let this one slip out of my fingers after i performed it.  it would be nice to still have it.

you really race around in that middle section.  wow.  fast fingers!
 

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