Week ONE: Choosing your piece
Hello and welcome to the WEEK ONE Main Thread for this challenge! 🤩
Alright everyone - this is the thread where we'll all be posting our daily updates.
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Twice a week I hope to be reading your daily updates in this very thread right here!
Here is this week's assignment!
1. Pick a Piece of Liszt to study and let us know!
Check here for suggested repertoire pieces
3. Optional for Everyone: Listen to some of Liszt's non-piano music and let us know your favorites!
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Great challenge, Dominic!
A few months ago I played the Consolation n3 in D flat major; I think this challenge will be an opportunity to recover it and go deeper by applying what we have learned in the intensive course of how to play cantabile. So, that's my choice.
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I am going to give the Schubert-Liszt transcription Der Doppelgänger a try- also a good opportunity to work on more cantabile playing (but of a dark dramatic nature).
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I will be leaving for Germany on 10/14, so as much as I would love to see this challenge through to the end, I won't be able to because my parents' cheap, old baby grand is not suitable for playing very much at all anymore, let alone Liszt. But I agree with Vidhya Bashyam that the Etude No. 9 is lovely; I think I'll start working on that a little bit. My last teacher occasionally plays the second half of the Transcendental Etudes (No. 7 - 12) in his recitals and considers the final incarnation of No. 9 ("Ricordanza") among the hardest, so it's wonderful for me to now have a relatively easy and manageable version of that amazing piece to enjoy.
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I will try Consolations numbers 1 and 3. (Unlike Juan Carlos, my version of 3 will not be note perfect.)
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I’m learning the Liszt transcription of “Ave Verum Corpus” - if transcriptions are ok, then I can do this for the challenge.
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I’m learning études 1 & 3. I don’t think I’ll ever get 1 up to full tempo, but learning this will be beneficial even so 😊. We are out of town at the end of this week, and have a busy couple of weeks, so my submissions may be a bit delayed. So far I’m really enjoying these études. As someone said, they’re playable for normal people 😊