Wallenstadt is one of the few pieces I can set aside for years and still sit down and play it from memory. Thank you for this series on Suisse. It’s the best of the Annees volumes and I think the most musically substantive collection Liszt ever wrote. Lovely performance.
@TheIndependentPianist
Жыл бұрын
Thank you so much!
@grahamtwist
Жыл бұрын
Another fascinating commentary with analysis, Cole, followed by two exquisite performances of some beautifully crafted music which seems to me to come from the heart as I sense overflowing love in a charming landscape. Just brilliant - bravo! (I loved the video clip with the Swiss cow bells! I'm lucky enough to have enjoyed some wonderful holidays in Switzerland and the sound of tinkling bells in the mountainous landscape is wonderfully enchanting!)
@johnrock2173
Жыл бұрын
Thank you soooo much for this episode. I'm a big Liszt fan and love especially his first collection from that time Album d'un Voyageur especially that first version of Les Cloches do Geneve is so lush and melodic and tender. I'm also fascinated with his piece Apparitions which I think is 1833 s.155 such a great time. Did you know there is also an early version of Harmonies Poetiques et religieuses from 1847? Really fascinating. There's a recording on Naxos by Wojciech Waleczek. Very interesting pieces not included in the later 1851 version and also germs that became greater pieces. Thanks again.
@TheIndependentPianist
Жыл бұрын
I love the apparitions as well, and the early Harmonies (later Pensées de mort) is also really fascinating. Although generally I find that Liszt improved his pieces as time went on, occasionally he regularized things which were more daring in the original. Some of the rhythmic things in Harmonies are like that, and certain notational experiments in the Apparitions are also really effective
@johnrock2173
Жыл бұрын
@@TheIndependentPianist Thank you for the reply. I do know that piece that became Pensees de mort so fascinating. But there is also an entire collection that wasn't in Humphrey Searle's original catalogue that is now catalogued as Harmonies poetiques et religieuses II S. 172a. It has some amazing pieces in the collection like Litanies de Marie and a lot of versions that changed as they became the well-known 1850s collection. Naxos has a recording in its Franz Liszt Complete Piano Music vol. 53 Wojciech Waleczek pianist. Thank you again love your work!
@cholo2215
Жыл бұрын
i really appreciate these analyses thanks for making these
@TheIndependentPianist
Жыл бұрын
Thank you for watching!
@Bigblackpiano
Жыл бұрын
I admit to skipping directly to the lac Wallenstadt and will hear the analysis later. Your performance is superb, both placid and sparkly. What a beautiful rendition🎉
@TheIndependentPianist
Жыл бұрын
Thank you so much for listening! It’s quite alright to skip right to the good stuff of course :-)
@Bigblackpiano
Жыл бұрын
@TheIndependentPianist I generally do go back but I just love the playing so much!
@abusedhyena
Жыл бұрын
Have you thought about playing any Scriabin? Love the great content and I hope you feel better!
@TheIndependentPianist
Жыл бұрын
Yes! I play some Scriabin and definitely want to get into some of that on the channel.
@abusedhyena
Жыл бұрын
@@TheIndependentPianist awesome! I look forward to your videos every week!
@thenotsookayguy
Жыл бұрын
2 in 1 I really hope you get better, man.
@TheIndependentPianist
Жыл бұрын
Thanks very much! Already much improved.
@neilkilleen3911
Жыл бұрын
Cole - here is a suggestion for a video. It’s a bit out of the box and may not appeal to you. I think all your recordings on this channel are made with some flavour of digital piano. Despite their sophistication, I think one feels and plays and interprets differently with an acoustic piano. My challenge to you is to record something you already did on your digital piano with an acoustic piano (upright : grand I don’t care as long as it’s good enough to represent your talent). Then objectively (!) analyse the two and see what you did differently. I’m mainly interested in the musical interpretation differences than the purely technical I can think of many reasons why this idea may be difficult to sensibly realise! Over to you for thought 😉 you may simply disagree with the proposition !
@johnrock2173
Жыл бұрын
Was this piece what Brendel ended his concert career with?
@TheIndependentPianist
Жыл бұрын
Yes, this was the one, his last encore at the Musikverein. He played Mozart K 271, and two encores, Bach-Busoni Nun komm der heiden heiland and Liszt Au lac de Wallenstadt.
@johnrock2173
Жыл бұрын
@@TheIndependentPianist Wow. Heavy duty
@neilkilleen3911
Жыл бұрын
Heroic of you - we’d be ok if you skipped a sicky week !
@TheIndependentPianist
Жыл бұрын
Ah well, I appreciate that, but it wasn't too bad!
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