Musical Madness 2025! The defending champion is back for more!

[liszt-and-the-galops]

Link to the form for voting: https://forms.gle/hvrUfCtzK3VUand59

Pieces in the matches:
Liszt - Grand Galop Chromatique
Liszt - S. 137 no. 12 "Chasse-Neige"

Chopin/Godowsky - Studies on Chopin's Etudes no. 4 "Ignis Fatuus"
Chopin/Godowsky - Studies on Chopin's Etudes no. 36 "Double Thirds"

Ravel - Ondine
Albéniz - Iberia Suite no. 9 "Lavapiés"

Saint-Saëns - Op. 111 no. 6 "Toccata d’Après le Cinquième Concerto"
Alkan - Op. 35 no. 5 "Allegro Barbaro"


Current bracket: https://challonge.com/musicalmadness2025
Winners of the last matchups: La Campanella, Ballade no. 1, Wilde Jagd, Op. 268 mvt. 4
Results page on MM website: https://sites.google.com/view/musicalmadness-ps/voting-results
Matches/results spreadsheet: https://1drv.ms/x/c/373bca7cb13fd958/ERCeNi1RJdVCuYiYk2KhQlkBEpSOnfoDFbYla3MknPz-vA?e=oxosxa&nav=MTVfezAwMDAwMDAwLTAwMDEtMDAwMC0wMDAwLTAwMDAwMDAwMDAwMH0
Results will be added in a few hours. Check the bracket for the vote counts!
The schedule for matches on the website has also been updated. You can check when each match will start and end below:
https://sites.google.com/view/musicalmadness-ps/schedule-for-2025

This thread also doubles as the official discussion thread for these four matches and the results of the previous four.
Voting closes at 5:00 PM on March 18th, 2025 (US Eastern time).

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Really surprised about La Campanella winning versus Hammerklavier. I know it has an edge on reputation, but Hammerklavier has a difficulty reputation too and is much more difficult. The more I hear La Campanella the more comprehensible it gets. But Hammerklavier is one of the craziest non-Sorabji fugues ever written.

Also, you have the wrong video for the Chopin-Godowsky Double Thirds.

[liszt-and-the-galops]

Also, you have the wrong video for the Chopin-Godowsky Double Thirds.

Woops! Thanks for the heads-up, just fixed that.

Really surprised about La Campanella winning versus Hammerklavier. I know it has an edge on reputation, but Hammerklavier has a difficulty reputation too and is much more difficult. The more I hear La Campanella the more comprehensible it gets. But Hammerklavier is one of the craziest non-Sorabji fugues ever written.

No kidding, TBH I don't even remember why I picked La Campanella to win that matchup. I'm grasping at straws here but my best guess are that it won on bravura and popularity alone. Maybe the fact that it was a synthesia video had something to do with it too.
At this point I'm just hoping either Wilde Jagd or Op. 268 mvt. 4 knocks it out in the quarterfinals; no shot that it loses to B1.

[lelle]

Voted!