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Lord Byron
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« Reply #30 on: 08:57:57, 15-03-2007 »
Yea, heard some lastnight, liszt is coooool Smiley

Much better than I thought, but of course, have some 'i know my stuff' person at radio 3 picking the tunes Smiley
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« Reply #31 on: 20:33:04, 16-03-2007 »
I am listening to Via Crucis - les 14 stations de la croix by Liszt (COTW). I am so surprised that it sounds sometimes like Frank and a few times even like Messiaen.
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« Reply #32 on: 20:50:28, 16-03-2007 »
Via crucis - Fantastic piece! Agree about some of it sounding like Messiaen - uncanny - but some early Messiaen (l'Ascension) sounds a bit like Franck too...
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Tony Watson
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« Reply #33 on: 21:34:42, 16-03-2007 »
I heard Liszt's piano concerto no. 1 today for the second time in three days on Radio 3. Not that I'm complaining; it's a great piece. I sometimes wonder what Mozart, perhaps the foremost pianist of his time, would have made of Liszt's music and piano technique. Would Mozart have been able to play it all? Of course, his piano was not as technically advanced as Liszt's and some of Mozart's music was written for beginners, pupils and the amateur at home but even so...
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« Reply #34 on: 21:41:12, 16-03-2007 »
I think Liszt revolutionized piano technique after he heard Paganini. I think that starting with Beethoven piano technique was much more difficult that Mozart's. Beethoven demanded more sound from the piano and used more arm weight than Mozart (or before).
But Liszt pushed technique even more out of amature's reach.
I think Mozart would find Liszt vulgar and stamping. Mozart loved gracious playing. He said that one pianist (I think she was to become Pleyel's wife) was too hard on the piano. He would give her a hanker chive   and make her prictice on the piano through it.
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