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Yeol Eum Son's recital from last week. She was just too good. Perfect.
Also the program was kind of weird but refreshing, with a lot of rare pieces and piano transcriptions.
My favorite was Liszt's 9th Transcendental Etude, Rach's Prelude 32-13 and Weissenberg's Etude. (Yes, Alexis Weissenberg's original composition)
She also played Weissenberg and Earl Wild's transcriptions. And 4 encores!
This recital was recorded and filmed so I guess they'll upload it on YouTube soon.
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Apparently the video of Yunchan Lim's recent recital has been blocked everywhere so now it's unavailable to watch again. It is not a copyright strike, just a content ID match with the original Verbier footage - and the copyright holder seems to have decided to block the video everywhere - so that only they can upload it.
You can go watch the recital again on medici.tv, and I guess their official channel - either medici or Verbier - will upload the full performance on YouTube later.
Still, I'll be making a full score video of the whole recital.
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I joined a discord server (score video community) and now I have my own server!
Feel free to join - I even take requests all the time so just leave a link to the performance then there is a very high chance I'll be making a score video of it.
Check the "Active Score Channels" tab and my channel will be there.
discord.gg/5bKkXHPSs3
Also, I might have forgotten some requests so it is absolutely fine to request it again and again.
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Just saw Dmitri Shishkin play Bach-Busoni, Franck, Tchaikovsky, Liszt, Scriabin, Rachmaninoff, and Prokofiev. He even played Medtner in one of his three Encores after the recital! He is just too good.
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Just saw Blechacz play Chopin, Debussy, Mozart and Szymanowski. His Polonaise Op. 53 and Clair de Lune was phenomenal.
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Currently working on Yunchan Lim's Rach 3 performance with the Boston Symphony Orchestra, performed exactly a week ago. (Live radio) His performance is even better than the Van Cliburn one, along with his powerful Ossia Cadenza and perfect "Rach-spilled-ink" passage in the 3rd movement. And his final descending octaves are faster than Argerich's! Stay tuned.
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Went to see Lugansky play Rach 3 & 4.
Rach 4 was good, cried at all movements.
Rach 3 was phenomenal. I think I cried 5 times. And he just nailed the entire concerto. Cadenzas, 3rd mvt, the "black ink" passage of the 3rd mvt, final descending octaves.. (He played the original cadenza btw.)
For an encore, he played Rach's prelude Op. 32, No. 5 and HALF OF THE 3RD MVT AGAIN. Crazy.
(Right after the "black ink" passage, where it begins with slow and quiet 10th(I suppose) chords. Some pianists roll them or hit the lowest note and then go up if their hands aren't big enough.)
He played Rach 1, 2 and Paganini on Wednesday but unfortunately I couldn't go there so I listened to the radio.
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What are your favorite piano concerti you would recommend? I've been listening to the same pieces for a while now and I'm planning to discover new pieces. Any recommendation along with the performer would be appreciated.
I currently listen to : Rachmaninoff 1 & 2 & 3 & 4 & Paganini(not really a concerto though), Liszt 1 & 2, Chopin 1, Scriabin, Schumann, Grieg, Ravel(G), Prokofiev 3, Tchaikovsky 1, Moszkowski 2, Saint-Saens 2, Bortkiewicz 1.
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Does anyone recognize these chords? I find these chords almost everywhere on Liszt's works.
The pattern is 5-2-5 semitones up, which makes an almost-10th-chord. For example, (Ab, D, F, B), (Bb, E, G, Db), (C, F#, A, D#) and so on. Is there a name for this specific chord? Or is it just Liszt using them a lot?
The pieces below are S. 139/11 Harmonies du Soir, S. 139/4 Mazeppa, S. 139/10, S. 514 Mephisto Waltz No. 1, and S. 125 Piano Concerto No. 2.
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** Requesting help from Liszt Fans **
I am planning to make a "Selected Works by Franz Liszt" video which is a compilation of noteworthy(mostly piano) works by Liszt.
Although I am a huge fan of Liszt, I might be missing some pieces that are worth being included in the video.
I will leave my current list which will be mashed up in a single video, in opus number order. If any of you have recommendations of pieces that should be added, or if you think some pieces in the list are NOT worthy, please let me know.
S. 124 Piano Concerto No. 1
S. 125 Piano Concerto No. 2
S. 125a Piano Concerto No. 3
S. 136 12 Etudes (All)
S. 139 Transcendental Etudes (All)
S. 141 Paganini Etudes No. 3, 6 (La Campanella, A minor)
S. 144 Concert Etudes No. 3 (Un Sospiro)
S. 145 Concert Etudes (All)
S. 160 No. 6 Vallee d'Obermann
S. 161 No. 5, 7 (Sonetto 104, Dante Sonata)
S. 162 No. 3 (Tarantella)
S. 169 Romance in E minor
S. 170 Ballade No. 1
S. 171 Ballade No. 2
S. 172 Consolation No. 3, 6
S. 173 No. 3 Benediction de Dieu dans la Solitude
S. 175 Legende No. 2
S. 178 Piano Sonata
S. 199 Nuages gris
S. 207 En Reve
S. 213 Valse Impromptu
S. 216 Mephisto Waltz No. 3
S. 216b Mephisto Waltz No. 4
S. 218 Galop in A minor
S. 219 Grand Galop Chromatique
S. 223 Polonaises (All)
S. 244 Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2, 4, 6, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 15
S. 253 Spanish Fantasy
S. 254 Spanish Rhapsody
S. 394 Reminiscences de Norma
S. 514 Mephisto Waltz No. 1
S. 515 Mephisto Waltz No. 2
S. 525 Totentanz
S. 534 Die Zelle in Nonnenwerth
S. 541 Liebestraum No. 3
S. 555 Danse Macabre
S. 558 No. 4, 12 (Erlkonig, Ave Maria)
S. 566a Widmung
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