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.
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!)
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.
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
@@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!
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🎉
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.
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 !
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.
Thank you so much!
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!)
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.
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
@@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!
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🎉
Thank you so much for listening! It’s quite alright to skip right to the good stuff of course :-)
@TheIndependentPianist I generally do go back but I just love the playing so much!
i really appreciate these analyses thanks for making these
Thank you for watching!
Have you thought about playing any Scriabin? Love the great content and I hope you feel better!
Yes! I play some Scriabin and definitely want to get into some of that on the channel.
@@TheIndependentPianist awesome! I look forward to your videos every week!
2 in 1
I really hope you get better, man.
Thanks very much! Already much improved.
Was this piece what Brendel ended his concert career with?
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.
@@TheIndependentPianist Wow. Heavy duty
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 !
Heroic of you - we’d be ok if you skipped a sicky week !
Ah well, I appreciate that, but it wasn't too bad!