Musical Madness 2025! Dark horses collide in Semifinal #1!

[liszt-and-the-galops]

Link to the form for voting: https://forms.gle/zrvAYy95RTxrQVjZA

Pieces in the matches:

Match #61 (Semifinal #1)
Czerny - Sonata op. 268 (mvt. 4)
Saint-Saëns - Op. 111 no. 6 "Toccata d’Après le Cinquième Concerto"


Current bracket: https://challonge.com/musicalmadness2025
In the Final Four: Liszt - S. 137 no. 5 Feux Follets (1837) and Liszt - S. 252 Rondeau Fantastique "El Contrabandista"
Eliminated in the Elite Eight: Chopin - Ballade no. 4 and Liszt - Etudes d'Exécution Transcendante d'Après Paganini no. 4b.

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
Full results will be added in a couple hours. In the meantime, check the bracket for vote counts!

NOTE: The duration of the semifinal matches has been changed on the Musical Madness website.
This thread also doubles as the official discussion thread for this match and the results of the previous two.
Voting closes at 5:00 PM on April 9th, 2025 (US Eastern time).

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I'm really surprised with these results, especially Saint-Saëns in the semifinals, which I consider to be around the same difficulty as Chopin's thirds etude. Excited for what this means for my bracket, though, because I don't see any of these pieces (maybe the Czerny) beating El Contrabandista. It would be really crazy if Feux Follets made it to the finals.

[liszt-and-the-galops]

I'm really surprised with these results, especially Saint-Saëns in the semifinals, which I consider to be around the same difficulty as Chopin's thirds etude.

It's all in the bravura. Going to call it right now, Op. 268 mvt. 4 is going to be the champion.

Excited for what this means for my bracket, though, because I don't see any of these pieces (maybe the Czerny) beating El Contrabandista. It would be really crazy if Feux Follets made it to the finals.

As I am now eliminated from podium contention, I wish you luck.