The unofficial Tonebase-piano-wide Liszt Complete Transcendental Etudes project!
My dear piano friends,
It is with trembling hands that I am writing this. But this HAS to be done, if only because I'm getting old and in a few years I won't be able to tackle this repertoire anymore.
As you may have read in the other thread, I recently came up with this manic idea, but it's doable, isn't it?
The objective is to record and share performances of all 12 Etudes Transcendentales, between all of us, on volunteer basis of course, as a celebration of our love for the piano, Liszt, and Tonebase.
To stay within the existing formats, this could be officially launched as a community challenge in June, with the watch party being set for July 31st (Liszt's death anniversary, because I can't wait until October for such an exciting project!).
We know that Feux Follets is in Yihan's repertoire ( ), Paysage in Thurmond's ( ), Wilde Jagd soon to be in 's, and nos 1 & 2 soon to be in mine.
And we can count on and the other pros here to save the day if needed😁.
So, are you in? Suggestions/thoughts welcome!
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Hey guys! This is an amazing project that was started by
I just want to send my full ADMIRATION for all of you taking part in this!
If I have time, I want to try and participate too - TBD😂
But thank you so much for organizing this Noel!
I will schedule the community challenge in June, and Watch party on July 31st!
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That is an interesting idea!
I don't know if I will participate, but if I do, I will either contribute no. 9 or no. 11. If there wasn't already a volunteer, I would definitely contribute Paysage.
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Also, more potential projects/Community Challenges:
Schubert Impromptus op. 90 and 142
Liszt Schubert transcriptions
Complete Schubert Sonatas
Chopin Etudes, Nocturnes or Preludes
Debussy Preludes (either book 1 or complete)
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July 31st will be Liszt's 140th death anniversary. This has to be done.
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I can play No.10
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What a fun (and a little crazy) idea! I've been working on #4 (Mazeppa) 😅 one of the reasons I've been quiet on Tonebase for a while. It'll be far from perfect, but I think I can play it solid under-tempo from memory with another month or so of work.
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Liszt of participants:
No. 1 - "Preludio": Noel Nguyen
No. 2 - "Molto vivace": Noel Nguyen
No: 3 - "Paysage": Thurmond, me
No. 4 -"Mazeppa": Judy Kuan
No. 5: - "Feux Follet": Yihan
No. 6: - "Vision": Doug Weiss?
No. 7 - "Eroica": Volunteers needed
No. 8 - "Wilde Jagd": Alexander Weymann
No. 9 - "Ricordanza": Volunteers needed (I can volunteer if no one else does)
No. 10 - "Allegro agitato molto": Yuchao Zhou
No. 11 - "Harmonies du soir" Astrida
No. 12 - "Chasse-neige": Alexander Weymann