This is absolutely amazing. Been waiting so long to see live performances of more obscure Liszt pieces, and this was played beautifully. This definitely beats Leslie Howard's recording.
i wish the quality was 1080P or even 4K but other than that. this was played incredibly. i can play to about 8 minutes before i start to die lol, i truly love this song and i love that this guy was able to play it! goodjob
Liszt's influence on music in general is enormous. Inventions like the symphonic poem, bringing piano technique to a new level, showing what is possible with just one instrument, all this stuff is going to make him be unforgotten. And by the way, he is one of, and probably the best pianist there ever was and will be. This "note diarrheoa" as you call it, is the perfection of harmony and piano technique. So, try to stop down a bit, Liszt is for the piano what Paganini is for the violin.
@@geckogra1747 Are you talking about me? It was just a joke mate lol. Liszt is ny personal favourite composer(after Chopin, i always say there's special place for his music in my heart)
I'll be frank here, and say that I personally am more fond of this than the one by Sergio Fiorentino. The Fiorentino version had an excellent intro but I guess the recording quality wasn't that good, I couldn't hear the intricate lines very well. Here, there's a lot more color used, and we see his hands. The only thing that I would be looking for would be a more furious temperament - this one's a little careful. But over time I think he can easily pull it off.
Absolutely not. This was the showy, young, and frankly, mediocre side of Liszt. The dark side would be the later portion of his career, like the Mephisto Waltzes, Totentanz, Scherzo and March, the Piano Sonata in B minor, and the very late works.
@@SpaghettiToaster On further consideration, it's not accurate to describe the Sonata as dark, though I would say there is much "darkness" before the introduction of the second subject.
@@AlexAlcyone No, really. You like this, you like some of the lowest-quality Liszt. We're talking like the second-worst tier. Even some of what he produced as a child was better. Truly, what he produced is more interesting to see how is style improved. Even in this regard, the Étude en douze exercices (Study in twelve exercises), S.136. are a better means of comparing Liszt's growth, and yet still having more artistic merit. If we were to divide all of Liszt's opera descriptions based on their merit, this fantasy would be about equivalent to middle tier, or the mediocre ones, maybe even the second-worst tier.
