LIAPUNOV

[bet33]

anybody hear his stuff???

im trying to track down his 12 trancendental etudes... in honor of liszt...

they are said to be interesting...
opinions?

[thracozaag]

anybody hear his stuff???

im trying to track down his 12 trancendental etudes... in honor of liszt...

they are said to be interesting...
opinions?

 Great pieces, vastly underrated composer.  Louis Ketner made two complete recordings of them, excellent playing.

koji

[DarkWind]

His Lesginka is marvelous, to say the least. I even made a composition in it's honor on sibeliusmusic.com . Not as good though. If anyone could post a link to the rest of the etudes, we'd be eternally grateful.

Edit: Nevermind, found them : https://www.naxos.com/scripts/newreleases/naxos_cat.asp?item_code=8.223491&memberID=145407

[Nu-Steinway-Player]

Just one funny memory I have about Liapunov -- when I was in high school back in the early 80's, the University of Oklahoma was having what they called a "Monster" concert, with all piano faculty performing on two new Steinway Ds.  One professor was to play 3 Liapunov Transcendental Etudes.  I was so looking forward to hearing this man play.  I was actully studying with him at the time.  However, he came down with some horrible flu and was not able to play them, but instead played some Mendelsohn Songs Without Words, because he had no energy and had been in bed for a week -- I know, not much help; but I've never had any place to share that story.

[Troldhaugen]

Liapunov is one of less known Russian composers (which is a shame). I think his best-known works are his twelve Transcendental Etudes (guess whose influnece Liapunov was under.... . Yes...I love Lezginka too!! I actually learned this piece while learning Islamey. They go so well as a pair since both pieces are based on the same themes.         

[pianowelsh]

His 12 etudes are extremely hard!! I don't know many of his other pieces although we have a few scores in the lib here they look very tuneful! Does anyone have a complete catalogue of his work for piano they could publish here?