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Offline lisztomania

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Which is the hardest? overall
on: November 06, 2013, 02:40:49 AM
Totentanz concerto (all), Rach 2 (first mov only), or Rach 1 (first mov only)
please rank them
thanx guys
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Offline j_menz

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Re: Which is the hardest? overall
Reply #1 on: November 06, 2013, 02:49:58 AM
Apropos nothing.....



Who's gonna prove me right?
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Offline david456103

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Re: Which is the hardest? overall
Reply #2 on: November 06, 2013, 03:29:17 AM
rach 2 is hardest
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Offline j_menz

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Re: Which is the hardest? overall
Reply #3 on: November 06, 2013, 03:35:14 AM
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Offline redbaron

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Re: Which is the hardest? overall
Reply #4 on: November 06, 2013, 08:04:12 AM
You've been told to stop posting these threads...
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Offline perfect_pitch

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Re: Which is the hardest? overall
Reply #5 on: November 06, 2013, 02:28:22 PM
Quote from: lisztomania on November 06, 2013, 02:40:49 AM
Totentanz concerto (all), Rach 2 (first mov only), or Rach 1 (first mov only)
please rank them
thanx guys


That's easy...

THEY'RE ALL F***ING HARD!!!

Does that answer your question???
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Offline cabbynum

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Re: Which is the hardest? overall
Reply #6 on: November 06, 2013, 03:05:56 PM
Just go with your favorite, you'll play it better anyway.
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Offline classicalnhiphop

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Re: Which is the hardest? overall
Reply #7 on: November 07, 2013, 02:15:09 AM
I'd say that Rach 2 is hard mostly because of its 3rd movement.  Rach 1 is probably harder if we are basing it only on first movements.  Totentanz is AS hard, though longer, because it deals with very normal techniques like octaves and glissandos.  But it is FAST.
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Offline mjames

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Re: Which is the hardest? overall
Reply #8 on: November 07, 2013, 06:22:51 AM
they dont even compare to the fantasie impromptu
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Offline classicalnhiphop

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Re: Which is the hardest? overall
Reply #9 on: November 07, 2013, 12:04:11 PM
are you saying fantasie impromptu is harder than all of them?
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Offline redbaron

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Re: Which is the hardest? overall
Reply #10 on: November 08, 2013, 08:01:58 AM
Quote from: classicalnhiphop on November 07, 2013, 12:04:11 PM
are you saying fantasie impromptu is harder than all of them?


No, he's taking the piss. He's suggesting that this thread doesn't deserve to be taken seriously. Which it doesn't...
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Offline chicoscalco

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Re: Which is the hardest? overall
Reply #11 on: December 01, 2013, 02:10:16 AM
They don't even compare to circus gallop
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Offline lisztmusicfan

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Re: Which is the hardest? overall
Reply #12 on: December 04, 2013, 03:37:17 AM
Twinkle-twinkle little star takes the cake.
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Offline ahinton

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Re: Which is the hardest? overall
Reply #13 on: December 04, 2013, 08:10:30 AM
Quote from: chicoscalco on December 01, 2013, 02:10:16 AM
They don't even compare to circus gallop
Of coure they don't - but then why would they, given that Circus Galop is for player-piano and therefore not for human performance?

Anyway, in answer to the question posed in this tiresome recycling of a thread type here - yes. Or maybe no.

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Offline chicoscalco

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Re: Which is the hardest? overall
Reply #14 on: December 04, 2013, 09:02:59 AM
Quote from: ahinton on December 04, 2013, 08:10:30 AM
Of coure they don't - but then why would they, given that Circus Galop is for player-piano and therefore not for human performance?

Anyway, in answer to the question posed in this tiresome recycling of a thread type here - yes. Or maybe no.

Best,

Alistair


I was making a joke  ;D
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Offline fftransform

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Re: Which is the hardest? overall
Reply #15 on: December 04, 2013, 09:59:27 PM
Please don't ask questions that other people were liable to ask, or they'll yell at you for it.


Comments to this thread = irony.
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