Liszt Sonata

[ralessi]

Hey all! Been a while since I have been around, hope everyone's holiday season was a good one.  Anyway, I have been out of school for a while, which has given me some great "me" time, and I have started working on the Liszt sonata.  Saying starting working on the sonata actually does not even begin to describe what I did.  I COMPLETELY immersed myself in the piece collecting any recordings possible, reading the wonderful "Liszt Sonata in B minor" book, any analysis of the piece I could find (which weren't many), and really just ANYTHING I could find about the piece of music.  It truly is one of the greatest/most important pieces of music written, given all of the circumstances.  Anyway, does anyone have anything on the piece at all they would be willing to share with me? Only finding 1 good analysis accompanied by a few articles and things really is uncool and I want so much more than what I have.  Anything at all would be so greatly appreciated.  Another question that I have is; Does anyone know of a publishing of the piece with Liszt's own marking/fingerings? Thanks for any help!

Cheers!
Rick

[etudes]

Welcome to the club!
I love this piece (played and performed it myself) and crazy about this piece for years. I also collect some of the recordings (as many as I could) and I have more than 100 versions of this great sonata.If you wanna trade or share or whatsoever just PM me!

[mike_lang]

Does anyone know of a publishing of the piece with Liszt's own marking/fingerings? Thanks for any help!

Dear Rick,

I believe Henle's urtext contains what fingerings Liszt left behind - it is the case for the scores of Chopin and Beethoven, and I assume it would be likewise for those of Liszt.

Regards,

Michael

[steinway43]

I have played this piece for some 25 years now and it never gets old. It is indeed a masterpiece, maybe even, sometimes I think, the greatest thing ever written for piano.

I've always found "analysis" to be too academic to be of any use. Learn it, listen while reading the score, let it speak to you, as it were. It's really quite self-explanatory.

[cstotlar]

The Liszt Sonata is a terrific piece.  I've been playing it - and admiring it - for all of my professional life and teaching it as well.  The problem is the same as all the Liszt repertoire, not technical but musical.  The Sonata asks for a strong technique, agreed, but the people who fail to play it as it should sound have missed its point completely. The Sonata goes to prove once again that speed in Liszt is not the factor.  Not at all!  An interesting recording of the Eb Concerto can be found by Emil von Sauer and Mengelberg, both former students of the master himself.  It is both slow and noble and an important key to the Sonata.

Curtis Stotlar

[stoudemirestat]

Ignoring the fact that the OP was in 2008...the Liszt Sonata is simply my favourite piece of music. Bar none.