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Topic: [Vid] Liszt SECOND Mephisto Waltz... from my all-Liszt album  (Read 1422 times)

Offline furiouzpianist

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I'm currently recording a second all-Liszt album.... the Sonata is done, next session will be in October....

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Re: [Vid] Liszt SECOND Mephisto Waltz... from my all-Liszt album
Reply #1 on: September 15, 2021, 12:47:20 PM
bravo ! i am jealous of your clean and precise playing. you make a good case for this second meph. waltz, the others have never struck me particularly, not even the bagatelle sans tonalite. somehow i am more attracted to the manic inventiveness of the first waltz and cant reconcile that with the textures of the later works which seem more 'square' to me for lack of a better word! even though the harmony is further out. just my thoughts on the piece itself. bravo

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Re: [Vid] Liszt SECOND Mephisto Waltz... from my all-Liszt album
Reply #2 on: September 15, 2021, 12:53:12 PM
Fantastic playing! I think you did well to bring out the constantly changing characters in the piece.
Made a Liszt. Need new Handel's for Soler panel & Alkan foil. Will Faure Stein on the way to pick up Mendels' sohn. Josquin get Wolfgangs Schu with Clara. Gone Chopin, I'll be Bach

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Re: [Vid] Liszt SECOND Mephisto Waltz... from my all-Liszt album
Reply #3 on: September 15, 2021, 05:53:41 PM
It sounds a lot like a Harry Potter movie soundtrack (the main theme, as well as some of the variations). It's interesting, I never realized that Liszt played around with these kinds of textures.

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Re: [Vid] Liszt SECOND Mephisto Waltz... from my all-Liszt album
Reply #4 on: September 16, 2021, 10:24:11 PM
The playing has a very carnival-like vibe, but also some feminine moments (but I wanted more salon effects in those passages, I don't like the current conservatory sound as much).  The critique would be that it often feels so rigid, as if afraid of rubato or maybe like the lack of expressiveness is somehow deep.  It reminds me of almost a Romantic-French-music interpretation, like how someone might play Massenet.  But the piece is kinda light on ideas, so maybe there's just not much to be done with it.

The opening was the nicest, a very tinkling sound.
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