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Offline chopin2015

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Etudes
on: May 17, 2013, 02:17:58 AM
Which one is the longest? I am starting mazeppa/Liszt and it is 14 pages...

Anyone care to tell me about how you practiced this or would practice? Maybe share a link to a flawless and tasteful performance?

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Re: Etudes
Reply #1 on: May 17, 2013, 02:21:41 AM
Quote from: chopin2015 on May 17, 2013, 02:17:58 AM
Which one is the longest?

Alkan Op 39 No 8. 72 pages. 29 minutes. More bars than the entire Hammerklavier.
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Re: Etudes
Reply #2 on: May 17, 2013, 05:22:42 AM
Quote from: j_menz on May 17, 2013, 02:21:41 AM
Alkan Op 39 No 8. 72 pages. 29 minutes. More bars than the entire Hammerklavier.

Thank you! I think I'll make it my senior project.    :o  :D  :-*


(...because I hate myself, obviously)
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Re: Etudes
Reply #3 on: May 17, 2013, 05:33:09 AM
Quote from: chopin2015 on May 17, 2013, 05:22:42 AM
Thank you! I think I'll make it my senior project.    :o  :D  :-*


(...because I hate myself, obviously)

If you do that one, you have to do the next two as well, because together they make up his Concerto for Solo Piano.
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Re: Etudes
Reply #4 on: May 17, 2013, 08:54:04 AM
No. 75 (Passacaglia) from Sorabji's 100 Transcendental Studies runs the Alkan fairly close in terms of size and no. 100 (Fugue) from the same set  probably exceeds it; all will finally be revealed when Fredrik Ullén's recordings of the entire cycle is complete; it is anticipated to take up 6 CDs altogether (each available separately) and, to date, the first three have been out for some time and these include nos. 1 - 62.

Best,

Alistair
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Re: Etudes
Reply #5 on: May 17, 2013, 02:26:17 PM
Quote from: ahinton on May 17, 2013, 08:54:04 AM
No. 75 (Passacaglia) from Sorabji's 100 Transcendental Studies runs the Alkan fairly close in terms of size and no. 100 (Fugue) from the same set  probably exceeds it; all will finally be revealed when Fredrik Ullén's recordings of the entire cycle is complete; it is anticipated to take up 6 CDs altogether (each available separately) and, to date, the first three have been out for some time and these include nos. 1 - 62.

Best,

Alistair

  :o :o

Brutal!

Thank you!
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