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Topic: For Liszt's birthday!  (Read 1187 times)

Offline ronde_des_sylphes

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For Liszt's birthday!
on: October 22, 2020, 10:04:13 AM
Obviously there is little prospect of recitals atm.. :(

So I recorded some home footage.

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Re: For Liszt's birthday!
Reply #1 on: October 22, 2020, 11:32:04 AM
I had no idea it was Liszt's birthday today! What a coincidence.

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Re: For Liszt's birthday!
Reply #2 on: October 23, 2020, 02:57:42 PM
Bravo ! ! !
very well played. . .
member on behalf of my son, Lorenzo

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Re: For Liszt's birthday!
Reply #3 on: October 23, 2020, 03:21:57 PM
There is always something that sounds very "pure" especially in your interpretation of Liszt (and contemporaneous) opera transcriptions which is very endearing.

Oh and btw that owl in the background looks kinda scary ;)

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Re: For Liszt's birthday!
Reply #4 on: October 23, 2020, 10:12:49 PM
Thanks  :)

There is always something that sounds very "pure" especially in your interpretation of Liszt (and contemporaneous) opera transcriptions which is very endearing.

Oh and btw that owl in the background looks kinda scary ;)

Haha re the owl. I try to play these pieces without being too mannered about them, I'm not sure if that's what you're alluding to.. I've certainly very much prepared them with an outlook of trying to project the melody as much as possible no matter what other flashy ornamentation is going on. I feel I could maybe have been a touch clearer in a few spots but a small room really isn't the ideal venue for big, in your face, flamboyant concert pieces like this.
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