Week 2: Status Check!
Hello and welcome to the WEEK TWO Main Thread for this challenge! 
Alright everyone - this is the thread where we'll all be posting our daily updates.
Make sure you've read the rules before replying (<- click)
Twice a week I hope to be reading your daily updates in this very thread right here!
Here is this week's assignment!
1. Post a video of your practice!
As we have picked our pieces, let's share a "rough draft' of our current status. So that we can look back in 2 weeks and see the progress we have done!
2. Optional for Everyone: Listen to some of Liszt's non-piano music and let us know your favorites!
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Choral music has always been my favorite to listen to - probably because I grew up with a brother who was always practicing his singing in the room next to mine, and he had a marvelous bass voice. Here is a beautiful section of Liszt's larger choral work, "Christus," the "Pater Noster":
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Michelle R thanks for sharing this. I didn't know anything about his choral music and this is a great start!
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Ching Lee Goh late in his life, he apparently wrote a fair bit of choral music. I'm just getting started on it myself!
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Michelle R thanks for sharing this Michelle! I hadn’t realised that Liszt wrote choral music too. It’s gorgeous!
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Natalie Peh I just learned of his choral music very recently, too. It is rather amazing.
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I'll try to repractise in segments his Rigoletto Paraphrase which I had to replace with something easier for an exam programme. And see if I can put it all together at the end of 2 weeks. Here is the main theme which is the easiest part!
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Ching Lee Goh
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Ching Lee Goh what lovely playing! Thanks for sharing. I look forward to hearing more.
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Ching Lee Goh lovely playing! Look forward to hearing the other parts of this piece!
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Ching Lee Goh So happy to hear you play another virtuosic transcription
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Vidhya Bashyam thanks! We both love his transcriptions and looking forward to hearing yours soon.
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Ching Lee Goh Very nice playing of this piece!
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I'm not quite sure if this is the right thread to post it on, but I recently made a recording of Liszt's La Leggierezza.
Tim.
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Josh&Tim Fantastic! This was a lot of fun to listen to. Thank you for sharing.
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Josh&Tim love this! It sounds beautiful- wonderful playing throughout! Thanks so much for sharing the video!
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Josh&Tim Wow! Great playing!
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Josh&Tim Bravo!
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Josh&Tim Bravo Tim, great playing of this virtuoso piece
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Josh&Tim Great and virtuosic playing, Tim! I admire how you maintain and accumulate expressive tension in your interpretation. Bravo!
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Hi everyone, I am hoping to play two pieces for this challenge. The first is from the Years of Pilgrimage Part III in Italy and the second piece from that book. This is the opening of it;
https://youtu.be/7PgZnDrljDM?si=aFCuwAzpT66YVWq4
The second I will update tomorrow which is also from this collection,
Derek
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Derek McConville looking forward to hearing more. I enjoyed your playing, though am not familiar with the piece. Thanks for introducing it to me.
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Derek McConville Haunting piece and great playing, Derek! Looking forward to hearing more...
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Adding an attachment didn't seem to work, so here is a link instead that I hope will work....Here's my practice of the Intro to Gnomenreigen. Sounds nothing like the professionals. Is it where I put the accents that's wrong. The first try is with some pedal. The second try is dry, but I ended up going slower without it, for some reason...?. Which sounds better? In the sheet music, it is written a ton of pedaling. Maybe that was because Liszt played on a less resonant piano? https://drive.google.com/file/d/1YS7rTmdGNJX5z3xshKI883jOHFgbtHlN/view?usp=sharing
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Natale Farrell this is great for a start! I think you may just need to build up speed and find your pianissimo for it to sound more like “the professionals.” And among them, there is much difference in interpretation and placement of accents. Be sure to check out Asiya Korepanova’s lesson if you haven’t already.
I like it better with pedal; I’m pretty sure the pedal markings are Liszt’s. I would imagine part of the reason for the “ton of pedaling” is because of the less resonant piano.
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Natale Farrell Give me a call and we can practice together for a few minutes. I think I might have a couple of ideas we can both try…
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