Liszt Recommendations Please

[nicko124]

Hello

For the future i basically need to know (from anyone who can help) some of Liszt's best enjoyable works. I already know the following so don't bother mentioning them:-

- Un Sospiro
- Le Leggierezza
- Liebestraume No 3
- Au Bord d'une Source
- Eglogue
- Mephisto Waltz

I like all of the pieces up here but i really want to know more pieces that are considered pretty essential playing and/or listening.

Thanks

[hodi]

Piano Concerto No.1
Totentanz
Wilde Jagd Etude
La Campanella
Hungarian Rhapsody No 2

[viking]

Tarantella
Grade Gallop Chromatique
Piano Concerto no.2
Gnomenreigen (Dance of the Gnomes)
SAM

[Daevren]

Not a orchestra piece if you are never going to play with one.

Furthermore, I don't know which Liszt pieces you like so how could I answer?

But if you want to play MY favorite piece, I like Chasse Neige.

[nanabush]

---Mazeppa, excellent but looks intensely difficult...
---Gnomenreigen as mentioned above means Dance of Gnomes?  Go figure...
... that's one crazy pregnant cat piece, combo of grace notes and what I believe ppl call semi quavers, but 32nd notes acting like grace notes but not quite.  My teacher played that piece for me, it's also very intense and fast.
---Petrarch Sonnet 104, very beautiful and difficult at the same time.

[thalbergmad]

Transcendental Etude no10 in F Minor
Mephisto Waltz No3
Hungarian Rhapsody no12

[etudes]

Mazeppa
Feux Follets
Wilde Jagd
La Campanella
Etudes de paganini no.6 in a minor Theme and Variation
Gnomenreigen
Hungarian Rhapsody no.2 6 7 12 15
Don Juan transcription from mozart

[Goldberg]

How about Tarantelle uber "La Muette de Portici" from Auber? It's a strangely flawed work, BUT I think that a virtuoso (look no further than Cziffra, for this piece) can do wonders with the work. Or how about the waltz paraphrase from Gounod's "Faust"? A tremendous piece! Along the same lines you might consider the "Concert Waltz on Two Themes from Lucia and Parisina" (Donizetti) and the shockingly overlooked "Reminisces de Robert le Diable" from Meyerbeer's opera...one of those aggressively macabre pieces...for something a little more mainstream, maybe you could look into the "William Tell Overture" transcription, or "Reminisces of Norma," neither of which is TOO difficult (that is to say, not as difficult as Don Juan).

For original compositions, try one of the Polonaises--I like the c minor one the best, but the one in E major is growing on me--one of the Ballades (both are excellent), one or both of the legends, one or all of the final three transcendental etudes, Les Jeux d'Eau a la Villa d'Este, or one of the HR's like: 1, 4, 6, 7, 9, 10, 11, 12, 17 or 19--or a mixture.

And don't forget either about the waltzes or the Schubert song transcriptions. I just heard "Hark, Hark the Lark" for the first time on Saturday and actually thought it was pretty charming and funny but with some good technical displays.

[donjuan]

A while ago, we got together and talked about a variety of Liszt pieces and their difficulties on this thread:

https://www.pianoforum.net/smf/index.php/topic,3568.0.html

See if there's anything there that interests you
donjuan