Liszt: Reminiscences de Norma (Tozer)

[@jonathankurilan6047]

Every single moment in this piece is just gorgeous, but 11:48 is just an unexplainable beauty.

[@nezkeys79]

Yonatan Kurilan yeah i actually teared up at that part and i dont know what the piece is about lol only that it was beautiful

[@nezkeys79]

Yonatan Kurilan 14:27 to the end might be a contender to take that title though ;(

[@ethanmitchell9642]

Surely 6:55 - 9:02 would fit your description better? The tone quality Tozer gives to the arpeggiation at 11:48 and beyond doesn't make me think of 'beautiful' in all fairness.

[@fuckfuckiluvesex]

4:40 in my opinion is the best part of the song

[@pilaricaabaya7962]

Yonatan Kurilan ki

[@yingsteven2246]

This piece is so underrated, a lot of people go away simply because it's Liszt and the fact that it's 16 minutes long, but man this is just extraordinary, full of beautiful melodies and insane diversity. An absolute masterpiece.

[@yingsteven2246]

I mean it's based on Bellini's opera but with the amount of elegance in this transcription, I am absolutely dumfounded

[@code_magix1986]

True

[@Lisztomaniac1022]

I love Liszt pieces favourite is his Piano Sonata in B minor

[@Paganini-Liszt]

Not eveybody can play Liszt, and I understand that. Even I haven't done this myself yet. (I did it now)

[@radamik]

It is a magnificent work and played here so well - always stunned by how majestic it is and that ending - just beyond words.

[@marcocampus7943]

0:00 Sinfonia 2:38 Introduzione 4:19 Dell'aura tua profetica 7:53 Deh non volerli vittime 9:03 Qual cor tradisti 11:48 Commosso è già 13:23 Guerra guerra 15:15 Mashup between Dell'aura tua profetica (4:19) and Commosso è già (11:48)

[@conde2538]

Thank you very much!

[@ValzainLumivix]

Thanks

[@qalaphyll]

@@ValzainLumivix indeed

[@rainchen7846]

4:19 reminds me of the march of the puritains

[@leidannis9544]

How can you find that? I can’t find this in Google.

[@matthewhoffman3911]

15:16 brilliant interweaving of two melodies.

[@marcocampus7943]

Yes, between Dell'aura tua profetica and Commosso è già. A perfect combination between the first and last concertatos

[@guavaguy4397]

The hardest part about listening to this is trying not to move or become overwhelmed by emotion.

[@classicore22]

No need to feel embarrassed! Music is meant to inspire people.

[@rotatoe]

Let it flow brother

[@gligorvladimir1121]

Possibly my new favourite piece by Liszt.

[@MiorAkif]

This piece shows a lot of Liszt's sentimental side (instead of his usual gallantry). Its my new favorite of his as well.

[@samthepianoman]

Liszt ballade 1 all the way

[@samthepianoman]

Or this

[@samthepianoman]

I’m not sure

[@luizmelofilho]

@@MiorAkif jesus, this is not from liszt. It's a transcription. It's from Bellini!!

[@Tizohip]

14:27 one of the best parts in piano literature.

[@circularchallah3751]

A great piece to recommend to beginners

[@therealrealludwigvanbeethoven]

I agree.

[@epileptiquitopark7971]

hah! hah! to beginners? hah!

[@therealrealludwigvanbeethoven]

@@epileptiquitopark7971 Of course! All us composers learned this at the age of three!

[@circularchallah3751]

@@therealrealludwigvanbeethoven lmbo ludwig

[@makaan699]

Well, for listening, sure. What better to motivate you to try harder and practice.

[@dialex3755]

11:48 - Unbelievable beauty! Crying!!

[@marcocampus7943]

Final of Norma. Concertato: "Commosso è già"

[@NameNik223]

It is unbelievable how much beauty can be created on just one piano

[@pleasecontactme4274]

@@NameNik223 leave it to liszt lol

[@christophcloren4740]

An overwhelming pianistic firework ! But with beautiful melodic expression. It is as shame that this wonderful musician is no more alive !

[@peterwylliejohnston]

Geoffrey Tozer played this piece frequently in recitals in the late 1980s and into the 1900s, both in Australia and overseas, notably in Canberra (1987), in Ireland at the Wexford Festival (1986) and in Russia on tour in 1990, later recording it for Chandos. He sometimes listened to various recordings of the Callas Norma, to reflect on the need for vocal musicality in piano performance. (Peter Wyllie Johnston - Executor to the Estate of Geoffrey Tozer).

[@AndreiAnghelLiszt]

At 15:15, the combination of the 4:19 theme in the left hand with the latter 11:48 theme in the right hand is fucking genius.

[@luciferlyset7543]

Woah, I clicked on the 4:19 button when I was AT 4:19 xd.

[@monition5655]

Polyphony

[@saxy1player]

These reappearances of patterns in different roles is what I love so much about Liszt's music!

[@ucokcok3340]

@@luciferlyset7543 Lmao

[@Asymmetrization]

he does the same in danse macabre transcription too

[@thecozytrader00]

Back again, after Alkan, never heard any composer making a Piano sounding like an entire orchestra like this, magical, delvish as only Liszt could be in the Mephisto passages.

[@huangfrancis8717]

It's not just a show off piece. It's also a wonderful masterwork!

[@aymericd.6126]

Compared to the don Juan réminiscence, it seems to be a beginner piece 😅

[@huangfrancis8717]

Haha. You are right, but i love the melody of this piece.

[@vnwa7390]

@@aymericd.6126 Compared to Liszt's Magnificent "Symphonie Fantastique," which is 70 pages long, after Berlioz, both the Don Juan and Norma seem like beginner pieces. Add on his transcription works of ALL of Beethoven's Symphonies, especially the 9th, for piano solo; that which runs about 90 pages. Liszt's most difficult Operatic Transcription, the Lucrezia Borgia, also makes these pieces look like beginner pieces.

[@Asymmetrization]

@@vnwa7390 whilst i do partially agree, i think youre forgetting just how earthshatteringly difficult don juan is

[@vnwa7390]

@@Asymmetrization None of Liszt’s work is really “earthshatteringly” difficult; it’s the same romantic type of music over and over again, and especially when compared to many composers’ music, such as Sorabji, Finnissy, etc, tbh.

[@quentinferrao7719]

Liszt is actually really well known for his easily beginner compositions like these

[@kieraasahi8240]

@@jamesliu1001 u didnt understand the joke

[@simonlajcman4031]

@@jamesliu1001 that late? I sightread this when i first play the piano at 2 months. What asian Child you ARE haiya! !!!!!FAILURE!!!!!

[@Bussybus463]

@@kieraasahi8240 you didnt understand the joke

[@kieraasahi8240]

@@Bussybus463 u didn't understand what I meant

[@Max-yp1iw]

@@kieraasahi8240 ?

[@gergelykiss]

Without Liszt I would have never realized what an amazing genius Bellini was. Those melodies are drop-dead gorgeous, Norma is full of wonders - and not being an opera-enthusiast I wouldn't have thought of listening to it if not for this fantasy. Liszt manages to conjure up the atmopshere from the original scenes with his textures, harmonies, accompaniments and linking passages. And the way he introduces "Guerra, Guerra" is just fantastic - so energetic, creative and arises perfectly organically from Bellini's material itself. Brilliant - such a lucky coincidence that Liszt was a massive Bellini fan! He wrote a simple little piano piece 40 years after Bellini's death in his memory.

[@johnlaurencepoole6408]

The New York Metropolitan Opera offered Norma for free last night. I know nothing about the opera other than through the Liszt transcription which I have been working on for the last decade. It was a real experience to watch the opera and relate the passages of the piano work I know only to well. Themes I thought were Liszt's really are Bellini's, I am very anxious now to learn more about Bellini's other operas. Puccini's La Boehme has always been my favorite, but Norma could be a contender for that position. There is a sound-only version on KZbin featuring Marie Callas recorded in 1954. Stunning.

[@gergelykiss]

@@johnlaurencepoole6408 Norma is a fantastic work, and Bellini was a fantastic composer - Liszt's work is not so much a transcription as a fantasy on Bellini's tunes and an attempt to share his personal musical thoughts and memories regarding the opera. The themes and inspiration comes from Bellini, the finished product can be considered a posthumous collaboration. It is a beautiful thing. Good luck with your Norma-project.

[@catherinetypist2371]

I think Liszt promoted many of his fellow musicians through his transcriptions in his days. There was no youtube videos and recording during those time.

[@treesny]

How wonderful that Liszt led you to Bellini's masterpiece... and I think Liszt would have been happy to know that his music was the "bridge"! When I was in my early 20s, I had the great good fortune to work on the production staff for Beverly Sills's first go at the title role (she was spine-shiveringly sublime in her final plea to Oroveso) which is probably the best way to really learn a piece, short of performing it! When I heard Liszt's "recollections," it brought back the tremendous emotional impact of that first encounter. Tozer has really absorbed the "world" of Bellini's drama, a tremendous recording.

[@robert111k]

@@johnlaurencepoole6408, try Caballé's Orange 1974.

[@RedZed1974]

My God, I could listen to Liszt's orchestral/chamber transcriptions all day.

[@janmarkowicz4633]

"Qual cor tradisti...." theme variation starting at 10:22 - pure, unexplainable beauty

[@qntwshvl429]

Seldom people play in a proper speed at 15:15 like Tozer, he plays the section gracefully when many others play too rush and cannot control their both hands to make the two main melodies stand out.

[@stravinskyfan]

they obviously can, just not in their liking

[@JudeWeatherington]

at 13:04 i was bewildered by how beautiful the melody was but then i was reminded that i’m listening to liszt and he wants to do liszt things

[@pawncube2050]

Lol

[@Ea-Nasir_Copper_Co]

And two seconds later Jaws shows up

[@davidnoranavascues4489]

Actually my favourite part, didn't expect that

[@Mereaux]

[@marinadela1361]

That part ruined it for me.

[@LeLe-rb2fi]

Swear to God this is masterpiece.

[@blakeray9856]

Le Le absolutely, it certainly is!

[@gerardbegni2806]

@@blakeray9856 Listen however the quite simple transcription of the aria with corus 'Casta Diva' written by Chopin - nevertheless a virtuoso . This is quite another world. Chopin forgot his vituosity, and this transcription is honestly playable by a gifted amateur.

[@tonyping3678]

It certainly is!!!

[@otakuxgirl6]

@@gerardbegni2806 what do you mean

[@stacia6678]

@@otakuxgirl6 He’s just a Chopin hater. Don’t mind him.

[@heehaaification]

15:10 - 15:16 MY WHOLE HEART

[@pleasecontactme4274]

same lol

[@bateman7573]

reminiscent of chopin’s op10 no11

[@anthonyc6017]

Those rolls sound so amazing and not like a piano at all, it sounds like someone is speaking

[@heehaaification]

@@bateman7573 oh wow didn't make that connection! really enjoy that etude as well :)

[@amerain1729]

@@bateman7573 First time I heard a clip of that section on YT I thought it was Chopin

[@HajimeIshii-dn6mz]

I am a huge fan of opera and classical music. This piece is amazingly beautiful. A team of Vincenzo Bellini and Franz Liszt is just peerless.

[@nilsragnar1347]

11:48 Is just wow.... These are the moments that inspire us to practice and to always reach for higher levels of playing.

[@jarjuicemachine]

That is like almost the easiest part of the piece, cuz those are just fast arppegios (which are of course very hard but I think fast octaves are harder, especially for octave arppegios)

[@nilsragnar1347]

@@jarjuicemachine I know it's far from the peak in terms of technical difficulty, I just think it's very epic 🙂

[@BBB-hi4hc]

@@jarjuicemachine I struggle with that part more than the octaves part

[@navalbaguette784]

@@BBB-hi4hc It's... terrifyingly hard though it may look 'easy' on first sight (ofc it ain't). Currently putting practice on hold as I don't know how to properly synchronize left and right in that section, any advice? Need help. Also at 14:28, help, the original is better than the Ossia in my opinion (not to say it's 'bad' in any way)

[@BBB-hi4hc]

@@navalbaguette784 Just practice slowly at start and match left hand to the note of the arpeggios. I know it’s annoying but it’s the only way to do. Also practice right hand alone to get full speed arpeggio. After practice for a while til I used to the slower version, I will try practice by let my left hand flow without thinking about matching note since you should get a bit of rhythm and timing from the practice that I mentioned before. Then build up speed. At 14:28 just practice scale, same as arpeggio, start slowly then build up speed. I’m not a professional. I’m just practice piano as my hobby. I don’t know if these are good advice. All of these are from my trial and error lol

[@Epic-1224]

One of the greatest things that happened to classical mussic

[@charliegold3227]

I play this in my next recital. I’m so excited to start this piece

[@christianvennemann9008]

Good luck!

[@charliegold3227]

@@christianvennemann9008 thanks

[@hayopjsk0726]

how is it now? Have you finished the piece? Also,since I'm also starting this piece,can you give me some suggestions?

[@xevivr]

@@hayopjsk0726 idk but as always as these guy never respond after their comment

[@hayopjsk0726]

@@xevivr yeah lol

[@MrRudvant]

Non è solo eccellenza tecnica è anche grande arte! Qui Liszt fa letteralmente esplodere il pianoforte portandolo al limite massimo della sua stupefacente espressività! I motivi inoltre sono trattati in modo geniale, con un irresistibile trasporto romantico!

[@fryderykfranciszekchopin3711]

This was the same year I wrote the Op.48 Nocturnes. This is my favorite piece by Liszt Ferenc.

[@nowitskevin3951]

me too chopin. me too. and you're my favorite composer jussayin you're a genius

[@kronoxd9697]

Practically there's nothing wrong here, but something doesn't match here

[@LudwigvanBeethoven11]

Glad to see the boys grown up :)

[@donsancho6690]

Ludwig van Beethoven me Me and the boys pioneering maximalism in music

[@bilyanaconsulova405]

Unfortunately Ferenc didn't compose this.

[@kristian.kalmanlehto]

Liszt’s wonderful way to interpret other music on the piano is just so great.

[@anthonycolucci5421]

Greatest pianst.Monumental superiority regarding complexity and technical brillance.Was he really human! or something we are not allowed to understand!

[@tackontitan]

Tozer is a beast of a pianist but I can't help but marvel at how Leslie Howard recorded a 99 disc collection of all of Liszt's piano music including this and all the other Reminiscences. Just wow!

[@RobertSmith-le8wp]

Very true. Leslie Howard is an amazing Liszt historian on top of being a fantastic pianist

[@tomowenpianochannel]

Leslie Howard achieved what no one else is likely to... also as a top class pianist, and a scholar. His 99-disc set should find a place in every serious library in the world, from Washington to Brasilia, from Paris to Moscow, Cairo to Mumbai, Beijing to Jakarta. And this is because Liszt represents the whole of piano music (from Bach, Beethoven, Schubert, through to anticipations of Debussy and Prokofiev), the whole of the 19th century, and is also superb and exciting to hear and to play as a pianist. There are few other composers as accessible to the ear, and as satisfying to master when you have got your eyes and fingers around the text.

[@thatromanticpianist3177]

From 7:17 up to 7:42... it is so beautiful. Reminds me of Chopin in a mesmerising way; just pure emotion.

[@jerrywang2185]

I would have to disagree, the passage sounds almost as light as a feather, but so dark at the same time much like what French composers of the 20th century wrote like Poulenc

[@zombieperson620]

More like 6:44 up to 7:53

[@amirmoshir2239]

Chopin was unique in piano although i like liszt and then other composers pieces too.

[@mazeppa1231]

Liszt always has stuff like this in his fantasies and reminiscences. Sonnambula, Niobe, Lucrezia Borgia, Juive etc.. there is always that one section in the middle that has something that could really captivate you, and this is one of them.

[@zombieperson620]

mazeppa1231 Thanks for the piece recommendations:)

[@mikemason6069]

11:49 has to be the most beautiful B natural in the repertoire. Prove me wrong!

[@philip.stigaard]

Brahms Ballade no 2, the middle part in b major is really beautiful

[@ponteacampata]

Scriabin's fantasia has its climax in b major and its ridiculously beautiful

[@piano345]

Wow stunning performance so passionate and emotional. I would have loved to have heard it played by Liszt players such as Cziffra, Horowitz or Cherkassky as it needs a big technique, emotional response and a feeling for space and grandeur.

[@alkanliszt]

There is the Bolet live recording. Really beautiful sound, but from the three-hand section on the listener becomes uncomfortably aware of how ill he was at the time of the performance.

[@MegaPianogenius]

I love hamelins performance

[@ioannispetropoulos478]

There is no better than this. Tozer is simply the best, he is the Liszt expert and one of the best pianist of all times!

[@donkgated8074]

@@ioannispetropoulos478 Tozer is utterly incredible here. It's unbelievable how little his home country Australia cares - why he wasn't more prominent in the Australian music circle is stupid and reeks of tall poppy syndrome. Instead people like Gerard Willems and Stephanie McCallum who can't play the piano for peanuts are celebrated. What a joke.

[@heleninlawrence2217]

Davidherzberg has the splendid Lewenthal up

[@janmarkowicz4633]

It has to be musically the best one-movement piano piece ever composed, I must say!!!

[@williambunter3311]

Jan Markowicz, I agree completely. If I could play just one piece of virtuoso music, it would be this one. Sadly, I can only dream!

[@janmarkowicz4633]

@@williambunter3311 I'm an amateur pianist but I can play even more advanced pieces, like Chopin's harder works (Ballade in G minor, many Polonaises, Barcarolle etc.). Hovewer this masterwork is so challenging that there are only single pianists in whole world who can play it. Sadly for it's only a dream for me also :3

[@maryd4369]

what about liszt bm?

[@samthepianoman]

Which bm

[@maryd4369]

Stonefish b minor sonata

[@lunar.6091]

The ending gets me every time

[@СергейРахманин-б7я]

В музыке Листа такой сплав красоты и мужества с самых широких смыслах этих определений. Как жаль, что ничего подобного человечество больше не встретит...

[@kavi9391]

Поэтому это так важно понимать, уважать, любить и ценить! ЛИСТ ЖИВ!)

[@Liam-vs9vg]

So this is how perfection looks like 😮

[@lookitsnick8164]

4:19 is literally the best part to listen to!

[@antonygonzalez1672]

Look! IT'S NICK I agree I always try and find a part I look forward to just to keep me motivated through the unknown and that’s the part I look forward to for this piece. Other parts now too because I’m more familiar with the now but before it was true.

[@Pedro-yc1nt]

Otra obra maestra del Gran genio de la música que fue Franz Liszt.

[@CarmenReyes-em9np]

Trnscripsion. de la ópera de Masaya Komei.

[@epileptiquitopark7971]

min 5:22 Liszt tried to depict in everybody's mind a very beautiful spectacular woman, musically, that is what i always have listening this masterpiece

[@asd-du3ey]

Help. I can't stop listening to this

[@cristianmunteanu7071]

Bruh me neither

[@DynastieArtistique]

@@thenotsookayguyyes, but the operas they’re based on are much better. Go listen to Norma

[@Dylonely_9274]

Thank you Bellini and Liszt.

[@christianvennemann9008]

0:59 "I thought love was only true in fairy tales."

[@rowanwild8445]

3:41 to 4:11 oh god, such exquisite textures

[@relaxpoweryt2707]

6:27 its like an introduction to something that is gonna be amazing and you know it.

[@duncanrichardson2167]

Who here will acknowledge the length and beauty of Bellini's melodies, on which this (double) masterpiece is founded?

[@DynastieArtistique]

No one apparently. Looks like no one here even knows who Bellini or Norma is, neither do they know that these are not Liszts themes and that it’s his musical commentary on Norma

[@lukasmiller486]

13:20 This is the first time I heard the piece but when it got to this part I said “Oh boy, I know what’s coming!” since I’ve heard the opera before.

[@aymericd.6126]

"Gerra, Gerra !"

[@mikehungus813]

JAWSSSSS

[@samthepianoman]

What happens in the opera

[@ValzainLumivix]

@@samthepianoman Guerra guerra

[@giannidifrischia3374]

Geoffrey was an incredible Master, too young to die, he was able to play practically everythin. From Bach to Gershwin, passin by Medtner 'n Bartók. And for many interpretations he's really second to none.

[@tcluster1217]

My first Liszt operatic metamorphosis. I love Norma and this is a revelation. It’s wonderful to see the music too. I too wondered where Casta Diva was but I’m guessing that Liszt found it too difficult to integrate its lines into this piece. I’ll have to look at more Bolet playing Liszt. Thank you Mr. Kumar!

[@momosky6062]

Just to let know, the style in this piece is a shamed copy of Thalberg Rossini Moses transcription.

[@AndreiAnghelLiszt]

@@momosky6062 What the heck are you on about? That's like saying composers who wrote fugues after Bach copied Bach. Also Thalberg's opera fantasies are limp, pusillanimous crap in comparison to Liszt's.

[@momosky6062]

@@AndreiAnghelLiszt bro, it's your opinion. Maybe you're wrong,maybe not.

[@pomelo9518]

For me, Casta Diva is moving but for Liszt it may have been not lyrical enough to put in the piece. Casta Diva means a lot in the opera, expressing the struggle between peace and war. But the melody...

[@3hm5]

Personally I think this is the best piano piece ever written!

[@GTDC-group]

3:45 to 5:02 is a best masterpiece that I listen in asiana airlines all the time. It feels like we are succeeding in future

[@artje123]

Wow very great recording. Rediscovered this piece for myself after listening to a new recording by Deutsche Gramophone / Giuseppe Albanese . I remember Mr Tozer though from some old Chandos / Medtner recordings. Just googled him, he passed away in 2009, too early. May he Rest In Peace. Thank you for this recording as accompanied by music score.

[@treesny]

Geoffrey Tozer's whole CD of Liszt transcriptions (from which this is taken) is certainly worth hearing, with a lovely performance of the Six Polish Songs of Chopin in particular.

[@therealrealludwigvanbeethoven]

Congratulations on 100K subscribers!

[@thecozytrader00]

7:06 Gorgeus, Liszt. Thanks for this heavenly theme.

[@DynastieArtistique]

WAKE UP. It’s not Liszts theme it’s Bellinis

[@calebhu6383]

Liszt didn't write any of the themes in this piece.

[@christianwon572]

My favorite opera fantasy!

[@MrRudvant]

Inoltre bravissima la pianista!! Grazie!!

[@abbasilly]

i just cant stop lisztening to liszt

[@김평기-z8d]

진짜 리스트는 천재다 ㅎㄷㄷ 어떻게 이런 음악을 만들수가 진짜 대단하다

[@DynastieArtistique]

He didn’t make this music. It was Bellini

[@marcalexandrefontenay9801]

Le melodiste Bellini dans son chef d’œuvre Norma repris et enjolivé par le maître absolu du piano Liszt cela donne cette pièce grandiose épique et bouleversante restituée par ce virtuose G Tozer dont j’apprends par un commentaire qu’il nous a quitté trop jeune 🥲🥰

[@SeigneurReefShark]

Oui, Geoffrey Tozer était un pianiste absolument incroyable.. Il a enregistré toute l'œuvre de Medtner, et toujours avec excellence et raffinement. Il est malheureusement mort d'une maladie au foie, si je me rappelle bien..

[@quoiquand2888]

This is so beautiful and under rated, like why is it not that popular as other songs?

[@samthepianoman]

Cheesey Kake is is an excellent piece, and VERY under appreciated 😔

[@Liszthesis]

actually this is one of the more popular operatic transcriptions by Liszt tho

[@quoiquand2888]

@@Liszthesis I mean I was talking about it in this video, but that was an year ago and it didn't have half a million views like it does now 6 hours ago when you replied to my comment

[@Liszthesis]

@@quoiquand2888 oh

[@quoiquand2888]

@@Liszthesis yes

[@shishirth]

A great performance

[@Prometeur]

This piece is perfect! It's so gorgeous!

[@Awesome-oh7op]

Brooooo😭😭 liszt is such a geniusss ahhh

[@baghirovali2361]

7:13 really breathtaking

[@animalistiktiero3835]

I love the Theme at 4:18 so much. It is so lovely :)

[@carloshumbertocacaofiguero7556]

Es una de las piezas más facinantes escritas para piano. Resulta que cuando la escuché por primera vez, había dejado el reproductor en modo aleatorio, mientras hacía mis tareas. Me quedé dormido, cuando esta pieza sonó. En mis sueños escuchaba quellos impetuosos acordes, aquellas escalas vertiginosas, aquellos cambios de tonalidad abruptos. En mi sueño percibía toda esa armonía fantástica. Confieso que ha sido una de las experiencias músicales más hermosas que he tenido.

[@trucoalaspardasalaspardas30]

Y que hermoso es cuando a uno inesperadamente le pasa. Se de lo que hablas!

[@CarmenReyes-em9np]

Es divina !!!!Lizst.

[@tomowenpianochannel]

Tozer deserves more recognition, he really was a genius and master pianist, and was neglected within Australia (not known for their support of the arts, as sport is key to life). His Medtner recordings are testament to his talent.

[@affettozo]

Time line 0:00 part1 4:20 Alegro disco 7:54 part2 11:48 three hand Effect 13:24 part3 ----------------------- Part 0:00 part1 7:54 2 13:24 3

[@rattywoof5259]

6:30 - OMG just look at all those accidentals! By the time I'd worked out what notes to play, he'd be five pages further on.

[@duffman7674]

They are chromatic, so after you read one, you can just play the next one one half tone step lower.

[@antonygonzalez1672]

DuffMan you’re smart😂

[@antonygonzalez1672]

egil larsen yea once you get accustomed to reading it I know it’s not difficult

[@CumCarvalho]

Its not a hard piece. I am a beginner, and i learned it with "sintezia". See my video

[@CumCarvalho]

@@duffman7674 as a beginner, i learned it in 2 days with "sintezia". Its not so difficult...believe me

[@antonygonzalez1672]

That little section at 7:13 is so romantic and beautiful

[@r0mmm]

I you Like that, you would adore Rachmaninoffs Op. 16 No 3

[@antonygonzalez1672]

@@r0mmm did you just like your own comment?😂 also sure I’ll check it out

[@r0mmm]

@@antonygonzalez1672 yes 😂

[@antonygonzalez1672]

@@r0mmm ok so it’s his musical moment no.3 lol I love all of them I forgot it was his opus 16 I haven’t listened to them in a whileeee due to having them replay forever😂 and the no.4 is so overplayed it really lessens it I feel

[@Liam-vs9vg]

@@r0mmm thank you for the discovery !

[@gerardbegni2806]

This Liszt's hyperbolic style, which one may love or hate, is in sharp contrast with the transcciption that Chopin wrote from the famous aria with chorus 'Casta Diva'. Just as Liszt was, Chopin was a great virtuoso (however less eccentric), but his transcription of the music of his dear friend Bellini is quite simple and can be honestly played by a good amateur.

[@gergelykiss]

Transcription is transcription, fantasy is fantasy. :) The sharp contrast is as much in the genre as it is in the composer. Liszt wrote plenty of "simple" transcriptions: many of his transcriptions of Beethoven, Schubert, Rossini, Mendelssohn, Franz, the Schumanns, Berlioz, Wagner etc are straightforward and can be performed by good amateurs. Fantasies have a thoroughly different aim to transcriptions, a classic case of apples and oranges.

[@gerardbegni2806]

@@gergelykiss In my opinion, things are more in between. Consider for instanc the wonderful transcrpotion of the 'Isolde Liebestod', one of the greatest Liszt's score in mly opinion. Wagner's orv chestra writing is very dense, and Liszt cannot transcrpibe it without finding pianistice equivalents, which are of a great virtuosity. This is for sure whet you classify as 'transcrpiptions', but is nevertheless a highly virtuoso piece, even in the very beginnig, with the hree trombones, the celli divided in 4 parts, and the bass clarinet.. Liszt cannot transcribe that without using quite touchy legatissimo tremolos. Look at the score, for instance on IMSLP.

[@gergelykiss]

@@gerardbegni2806 Yes, many of Liszt's transcriptions are very demanding, like the Liebestod or the Tannhäuser ouverture or the Symphonie fantastique. But many others are playable for good amateurs like many of his Schubert or Beethoven settings or his Chopin Polish Songs transcriptions. But regardless of their difficulty they are all transcriptions and they serve very different purposes to fantasies. There are many "simple" and playable transcriptions by Liszt, as well as straightforward but extremely difficult ones. My points were that A: one doesn't need to go to Chopin to find a simple, easy transcription - there are plenty of those from Liszt as well, and B: the current piece is not a transcription, so it might not be fruitful to compare it to one.

[@treesny]

@@gergelykiss Excellently put. And one might add his wonderful Verdi paraphrases, again a slightly different genre, somewhere between a transcription and a fantasy. Liszt did an incredible amount to promote the music of his time (and just before it); his Schubert song transcriptions in particular played a big part in popularizing that composer's music beyond Vienna. Great generosity as well as great genius!

[@bammam5988]

For those of you who haven't seen a video performance of this, go find one and check out the section that starts at 14:27. Ridiculously difficult

[@nandovancreij]

realistically its just scales but ya looks pretty flashy

[@chwu04-ne2df]

That section is actually pretty easy for me compared to the section right before with the hand-crossing jumps and the section earlier in the piece with all the jumping LH octaves.

[@Prometeur]

I agree - the “Ite su colle” part is a lot harder, as well as “Guerra, Guerra”

[@chwu04-ne2df]

@@Prometeur Exactly. The rest of the piece isn't too bad, but these two sections are just pain. Maybe it's quite a bit easier if you have huge hands and extremely good octave technique, but for me they're definitely harder than any chopin etude, most of the transcendental etudes, and anything in the b minor sonata.

[@Shining3737]

I gotta thank the KZbin algorithm for putting this in my recommended.

[@Tizohip]

yes same

[@benjaminsawyer1292]

I just tried sight reading this piece and it is really quite difficult (for me at least!). It helped me appreciate how much effort must have gone into performing this marvelous piece. I mean, at times it does feel that it divulges into sentimentalism, but Liszt does it with incredible class (however contradictory that might sound at times). It is drama at it's best. I love this piece - the emotion is immense.

[@themusicalcorner4086]

Umh. Simply wonderfoul! Great!

[@isivalenti]

wonderful....simply wonderful....!

[@christopherpawlowskimusic8388]

Need to learn this, what a beauty

[@radamik]

Magnificent piece but the ending especially has such incredible grandeur.

[@pmlouisjuste]

wow. just wow.

[@norwalltino]

FANTASTIC!!

[@CarmenReyes-em9np]

Que belleza 😍 de obra y que bien interpretada. y difícil.

[@maltehenrikgohr]

I love this piece and Liszt! He must have sold his soul or something to compose like this!!

[@calebcollins8886]

It's called get gud kid.

[@jonashasageremtkjrjensen]

He just improvised over the themes and wrote the improvisation down. That's how good he was.

[@treesny]

@@jonashasageremtkjrjensen Liszt worked extremely hard to perfect his craft as a composer, both in his piano and orchestral music... not to mention his wonderful songs and other vocal pieces. Hence the numerous revisions, both before and after publication. The amazing thing is that after all the recomposition and re-thinking, his music retains the feeling of great emotional spontaneity and improvisation. That's genius + discipline!

[@ceesmulder7427]

Whatever the magnificent work Liszt has done in these Reminiscences, the apparent simplicity and brilliance of the melodies created by Bellini stands as non-equaled in the art of (belcanto) music. We can only guess what Bellini would have created if he had lived longer than 34 years….

[@kentario888]

7:53 is so beautiful

[@brianmcdonagh8477]

‘Please let the light that shines on me, shine on the one I love,,,,,,,’

[@mydog1871]

No way is this live, nobody coughed!

[@スシチャンそう]

My Dog there was no clapping at the end. It should not be a live

[@treesny]

@@スシチャンそう I assume this derives from Tozer's excellent studio Liszt CD (Chandos).

[@samthepianoman]

Probably

[@thatsEforEveryone]

This must be in Asia where they have more class when it comes to classical music 😂😂😂

[@ΠαύλοςΚ-σ2ο]

@@thatsEforEveryone it's because every Asian is forced to play an instrument anyway

[@stefanoolcese]

Impressive!! Thank you for sharing!!!

[@lifestyleastherapyafterstr9423]

Personal timestamps: 1:22 dark melody you remembered 2:14 brilliant RH trill and LH song transition(2:33 notice RH 32nd rest, it's because C# corresponds with LH 4th beat, except RH has psuedo-32nd notes) 4:02 RH gliss voice sound 6:17 clean RH run 8:57 quasi timpani triplet gliss octave section start Flying at 11:57 (LH zip 11:59), oh he achieves that effect by glisisng the LH, see in 12:21 12:46 Liszt omits E in RH octaves because it is doubled in LH 13:24 satisfying gliss

[@CarmenReyes-em9np]

Felicidades!!!!!!! La verdad. 🎹🤩

[@wandahelenagorecka-fichten9258]

Przepiękne pełne ekspresji wykonanie utworu Liszta na temat Normy przez Tozera

[@CarmenReyes-em9np]

Exelente pianista. México. 🙏✝️🎼🎶🎶🏅

[@ruyfaco]

As much as I like Bellini, this is better than Norma itself.

[@napoleonicwarfare4621]

Ruy Facó I’m going to have to disagree but this is probably Liszt’s best work. I’m not the biggest fan of Liszt but his reminisces are wonderfully written and very emotionally captivating.

[@gergelykiss]

@@napoleonicwarfare4621 I agree that this is arguably Liszt's finest operatic fantasy, certainly my favourite. Probably many would prefer the Don Juan reminiscences, which is another masterpiece. But as wonderful as these fantasies are, there are many Liszt works that are generally considered to rank alongside the greatest works of his contemporaries: the b-minor Sonata, Orpheus, the Faust Symphony, Les jeux d'eaux à la Villa d'Este, Via Crucis - if you are unfamiliar with these I would honestly suggest you give them a try. :) Via Crucis is unique in the whole Romantic Era, without precedent or proper comparison. Try to check out Reinbert de Leeuw's recording with the Netherlands Chamber Choir. It's on Spotify. It's mindblowing.

[@treesny]

@@gergelykiss As is his recent, second recording with Collegium Vocale Gent (on Alpha-Classics): even more intimate - just 16 singers, who also take the solo parts - and profoundly moving. Plus, he also recorded the piano-only version! (There's a live video of him playing it on KZbin.) Extraordinary piece, extraordinary pianist/conductor. :-)

[@vnwa7390]

@@gergelykiss Liszt's "Lucrezia Borgia" is by far his most difficult Operatic Transcription and blasts this, the Don Juan, (3 Verdi), and other transcriptions out of the water for me, not to mention that I prefer the musicality there too. If you haven't yet, Katsaris' performance of Liszt's transcription of LVB's 9th Symphony is absolutely astounding.

[@suremate]

Ruy Facó Not even close.

[@carmen6169]

Bravo !!🇮🇷❤️ 🖐️🇮🇷 México.

[@donkgated8074]

"...more bravura and excitement than in Leslie Howard’s" That's faint praise. Leslie Howard's Liszt recordings mostly sound like he's just sightreading and playing the notes, nothing more.

[@samthepianoman]

Tru

[@suremate]

His Norma is actually one of the best ones at least from a musical standpoint.

[@jacobsimonson9040]

His Liszt recordings are quantity over quality

[@Schubertd960]

4:19 Sounds VERY like Liszt's Allegro Martiale Tema section he wrote for Hexameron

[@hokomong]

13:30 진짜 온 몸에 소름 ........ 리스트는 진짜 신이다

[@markito3311]

Hamelin's 2020 recording is excellent.

[@kwongscofield4306]

Definitely one of the tops of the romanticism

[@mikebott6940]

Thank you, Ashish.