tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1727760322430110049.post4133896277866455921..comments2024-03-24T18:39:05.017-05:00Comments on Musical Musings: Liszt - Grosses Konzertsolo For PianoAlan Beggerowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09319550956740738799noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1727760322430110049.post-38908529212034882212015-01-20T18:47:12.759-06:002015-01-20T18:47:12.759-06:00I've just mastered this piece and frankly I do...I've just mastered this piece and frankly I don't think it's all that hard--except for the length perhaps. Remember, Franz Liszt was a piano virtuoso so everything he wrote is playable for the piano. Every pattern fits the hand comfortably and nothing is awkward or out of place. If you're having trouble playing Franz Liszt it means you need to practice your scales, chords and arpeggios on a regular basis.<br /><br />I can see why some people would dislike the Grand Concert Solo--it does lay pretty heavy on some of the embellishments in the accompaniment in the second part--and I found it a little jarring too but like Anonymous has said, the more I listen to and play Liszt's music the 'empty virtuosity' (I can see where Clara Schumann where coming from) doesn't bother me that much because of the layers upon layers of details.<br /><br />If you want less showy Liszt listen to his Six Consolations and Two Elegies.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08300017945753306158noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1727760322430110049.post-79484664890053294972014-07-25T17:20:00.089-05:002014-07-25T17:20:00.089-05:00Thank you for calling this work to the public'...Thank you for calling this work to the public's attention. The more I listen to Liszt and have come to appreciate his particular art, the less the "empty virtuosity" rap seems to pertain, really. The work under discussion is a case in point: it is quite rich and repeated listenings open up its richness little by little. I really can't find any "empty virtuosity" here or elsewhere. Clara Schumann could not quite get away from her understandable fixation on Robert's work and that of Brahms, (the latter who operated on a much narrower scale than Liszt.) Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com