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Topic: Who performed Liszt's 12 études d'éxécution transcendante in concert?  (Read 1787 times)

Offline end

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Hi,

I'm just curious. I know of Berezovksy, because I've seen it on Youtube.

So, do you know of another pianist who's performed all 12 in one concert?

I guess several people recorded them, but that's not what I'm asking.

Offline daro

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Ferruccio Busoni, and not just the transcendentals, but sometimes the 6 Paganini etudes along with them on the same program.

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Thank you, Daro.

I've looked him up on the internet.

Anyone else??

Offline point of grace

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Arrau did. i downloaded the cd from taringa.net i think...
definitely not my favourite..
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Chopin Polonaise Op. 53
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Offline minor9th

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Lazar Berman. There's a CD of an Italian concert when he played all 12 plus Rachmaninov's Moment Musicaux...and played Liszt's "Orage" as an encore!  https://www.qualiton.com/mm5/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&Store_Code=QILTD&Product_Code=IDI+6497%2F8&Category_Code=

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Tzimon Barto has made a habit of performing the set. Probably there are many others in addition to those mentioned. 
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I heard John Ogdon play them in Auckland in 1967. He was a lather of sweat at the end. One trouser leg was stuck half way and he was unsteady taking a bow. I am so pleased now that I heard him at his best, I almost didn't go. He was unforgettable in the ones demanding a full sound - Chasse Neige, Harmonies du Soir and Vision - eclipsing any recordings I had of them. He produced an astonishing effect in Mazeppa by crushing all the grace notes in the last two fast variations - no attempt at flicking them at all. I have never heard anybody do that before or since - quite effective once you get used to it.

Next day the critic in the paper wrote really embarrassing comments about how Liszt's music was "bombastic" and "hollow". Funnily enough, twenty-four years later this critic rear-ended my Mini on the motorway and insisted on taking photos in case I diddled him with the insurance. Needless to say I wasted no time in telling him exactly what I thought of his musical understanding.
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I heard John Ogdon play them in Auckland in 1967. He was a lather of sweat at the end. One trouser leg was stuck half way and he was unsteady taking a bow. I am so pleased now that I heard him at his best, I almost didn't go. He was unforgettable in the ones demanding a full sound - Chasse Neige, Harmonies du Soir and Vision - eclipsing any recordings I had of them. He produced an astonishing effect in Mazeppa by crushing all the grace notes in the last two fast variations - no attempt at flicking them at all. I have never heard anybody do that before or since - quite effective once you get used to it.

Next day the critic in the paper wrote really embarrassing comments about how Liszt's music was "bombastic" and "hollow". Funnily enough, twenty-four years later this critic rear-ended my Mini on the motorway and insisted on taking photos in case I diddled him with the insurance. Needless to say I wasted no time in telling him exactly what I thought of his musical understanding.

Thanks Ted, I really enjoyed that.
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Next day the critic in the paper wrote really embarrassing comments about how Liszt's music was "bombastic" and "hollow". Funnily enough, twenty-four years later this critic rear-ended my Mini on the motorway and insisted on taking photos in case I diddled him with the insurance. Needless to say I wasted no time in telling him exactly what I thought of his musical understanding.

HAHAHA that's gold-as ted! ;) ;D

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*smash!*

*klunk*

Critic: "Uh, sorry I rear-ended your car mate...uh, that's not too bad, so I'd better take pics and...hang on, here's my driver's license...now where's my insurance..."

ted: "Oh, you're that retarded music critic?! You remember 24 years ago you said John Ogdon's concert was full of hollow and bombastic music? Well let me tell you what music is! ..."

Mini: *sob sob* "My beautiful, beautiful bumper! Please hurry up and get the insurance sorted! I can't look like this in public for long!"

Offline rienzi

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I have heard these done 3 times in recital. As well as Berman and Ogdon, already mentioned above, Louis Kentner also played the lot in one go. Kentner's other selection was the Chopin 2nd Sonata, whereas Ogdon chose "Pictures at an Exhibition" and Berman Prokofiev's 8th Sonata on the occasions I heard them.

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steve drury's done it. (on a recital shared with cage's etudes australes...)
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