Franz Liszt, Hungarian Rhapsodies no. 3 and no. 17 (VIDEO)

[pablosalaco]

Hello Friends, here are the performances of two of my favorite Hungarian Rhapsodies by Liszt! No.17 is not well known and rarely perform, plus is a late piece and Liszt's shortest Rhapsodie!
Hope you enjoy them as much as I do.

ALSO...QUESTION?
Anyone have advise on how to practice octaves that are not parallel, as you can see my octaves are a mess. I am good with parallel octave but not when they are not, such as the number 17 Rhapsodie

Thanks!

Pablo .S.

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[abbyes]

Woooah !!! Someone else playing the 17th hungarian rhapsody !! Hahaha, it's one of my favourite late work from Liszt also.

I really enjoyed your perfomance, but the allegretto part was a bit slow for my taste. But I really liked the Lento part ^^.

In the part in 1:36, I wouldnt slow it or play it with rubato ( pierde la gogia de la pieza así jeje ), it's a section where the tension is growing gradually, it's like " come on, come on, come on, resolve it already !!! ". So It'd be like a race. But to be honest, I also played it like that also back then when I was practicing the piece. But well, It's your interpretation after all ^^

Regarding those octaves, I had the same problem. I had a lot of tension in my wrists and couldnt play them correctly. What I did was to practice them slowly for 10-15 minutes per day, and in each repetition I would make it faster gradually. Now I dont have any problem with it !!

At last, in the section "un poco piu animato" you have "ff" but you play it way to forte, you have to keep it for the "fff sempre" at the end.

Anyway I really loved it ! glad to see you playing it !

Unfortunately I do not have any recording of me playing it, I would like to share it with you. I'll try to record it this week ^^.

I have one from 7 months ago, back when I was practicing the middle section, where I had tons of problems hehe, take a look look at it if you want  :

[pablosalaco]

Thanks! yeah I definitely took it slow! I was trying to go with the Richter tempo, where he starts slow and goes crazy fast at the end! haha (did not pull it off) Very cool video btw! also I am a sucker for late Liszt Pieces. On this particular recital I performed only Late pieces and a friend of mine played only Chopin pieces! The name of our recital was Liszt+Chopin BFF's! lol