Musical Madness '25! Feux Follets & El Contrabandista face off in Semifinal #2!

[liszt-and-the-galops]

Link to the form for voting: https://forms.gle/jTjNqSyVJJQAmuBz6

Pieces in the matches:

Match #62 (Semifinal #2)
Liszt - S. 137 no. 5 Feux Follets (1837)
Liszt - S. 252 Rondeau Fantastique "El Contrabandista"


Current bracket: https://challonge.com/musicalmadness2025
In the Finals: Czerny - Op. 268 Sonata mvt. 4.
Eliminated in the semifinals: Saint-Saëns - Op. 111 no. 6 "Toccata d’Après le Cinquième Concerto."

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 one.
Voting closes at 5:00 PM on April 11th, 2025 (US Eastern time).

UPDATE: I will be posting the final match 24 hours later than I intended to, due to some last-minute changes to the voting form. All remaining voting deadlines (Match #62 and Match #63) will not change.

[skysaileight]

This is a surprising and refreshing twist—Czerny doesn't always get the recognition he deserves, so kudos to the voters for giving him a shot at the title!

[transitional]

This is a surprising and refreshing twist—Czerny doesn't always get the recognition he deserves, so kudos to the voters for giving him a shot at the title!

Czerny's not in this round. Sometimes necroposts contribute to the existing discussion a while later, but in this case, what are you doing here 2 months later? You can definitely find a Czerny thread somewhere else.

[liszt-and-the-galops]

Czerny's not in this round. Sometimes necroposts contribute to the existing discussion a while later, but in this case, what are you doing here 2 months later? You can definitely find a Czerny thread somewhere else.

Similar thing happened last year where two of the MM threads were necroed in late May by users with only 1 post: copy/pastes of earlier messages in the MM threads.
This is slightly different because it's not a copy/paste, but it is a single-poster necroing the thread well after the vote is over.
Also, I think they were referring to the fact that Czerny being in the finals was revealed here, but that still doesn't make sense. I mean, if you're going to post that message, why not do it in the final results thread where it's revealed that the Czerny won the whole tournament?