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> What's The Most Difficult Piano Piece?
Car Expert
post May 17 2005, 06:06 PM
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I'm doing Grade 2 and the hardest piece I had to do was Ripstitch Rag (especially the middle bit!).
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post May 19 2005, 11:58 AM
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I'm DYING to listen to the 3rd Rachimanoff concerto...I've heard tens of tales it's one of the most difficult pieces, but there's no classical music store in the place where I live...
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post May 19 2005, 12:08 PM
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QUOTE (DGA @ May 19 2005, 11:58 AM)
I'm DYING to listen to the 3rd Rachimanoff concerto...I've heard tens of tales it's one of the most difficult pieces, but there's no classical music store in the place where I live...

By online DGA :D

I know you can get it from www.crotchet.co.uk (I know 'cos I just checked). Type 'Rachmaninov concertos' into the search box then scroll down to no 7 of the results page. There are several to choose from.

I bet Amazon have copies if you are not UK based (www.amazon.com).

Enjoy. The concerto is absolutely fantastic.
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post May 19 2005, 06:06 PM
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Scarbo by Ravel (last piece of Gaspard de la Nuit). It kills my hands :(
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post May 19 2005, 06:38 PM
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my top 3.

Liszt piano sonata in b minor.... for its emotion and monstrosity,
Chopin Piano sonata in b minor no.3....its has 10 themes in the 1st movement! enough said!
and....not that its as difficult as some other pieces, but its still very hard...schumanns Kreisleriana....very clever piece.
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post May 21 2005, 07:58 AM
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Certainly the Liszt's Transcendental Etudes
and Rach's Etudes-Tableaux~ (Op. 39 No.1 the most terrible)-*,
and the sonata mentioned above.
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post May 25 2005, 12:21 PM
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In my opinion, there's no such thing as a most difficult piece. Each hard piece is hard in its own way so it's a matter of personal taste for different people!
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post Sep 6 2006, 07:38 PM
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L a Campanella - Liszt.

AAAARRRRGHGGGGGGGHHHHHHH!!!!!
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post Sep 6 2006, 07:49 PM
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Yeah , Liszt Pagannini etudes! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/ph34r.gif) How do they play it?! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/blink.gif)
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post Sep 6 2006, 08:43 PM
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There is a video on Youtube where Yundi Li is playing La Campanella. It's amazing! He mucks it up in the end which is a shame but it's still very good. There are other people playing it as well but I saw him (I think) the other day at Regent Street in Central London but wasn't too sure. I sort of stared at him a bit but he didn't notice so I was ok. He had HUGE flowing black hair and a glamourous looking girlfriend. His clothes looked very expensive and his style was typical of Chinese celebs. Is he peforming here or is he on holiday?

I'm kind of kicking myself now because I didn't get an autograph. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/mad.gif) (IMG:style_emoticons/default/ph34r.gif)

Sorry I've gone off-topic.
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post Sep 6 2006, 08:46 PM
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The revolutionary etude isn't too hard. I learnt it when I was 15 and if you spend a long time learning the note patterns it all fits into place quite nicely.
Gutted about the autograph noodelz, I'm such a celeb spotter.
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post Sep 6 2006, 09:07 PM
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I think Bach is very very difficult - extremely complex fingerings and harmonies - turns one's brain to mush.

Although some of Debussy's art music is also similarly mind-crushing, but not in the same way...it takes more to paint the picture the composer is trying to portray.
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post Sep 6 2006, 09:28 PM
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QUOTE(Oddball @ Sep 6 2006, 09:07 PM) *

Although some of Debussy's art music is also similarly mind-crushing, but not in the same way...it takes more to paint the picture the composer is trying to portray.

Can't agree more. When learning any of Debussy's pieces , it doesn't take me so long to get it right technically . But who said Debussy is just notes to play. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/rolleyes.gif)
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post Sep 6 2006, 11:25 PM
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QUOTE(Oddball @ Sep 6 2006, 10:07 PM) *

I think Bach is very very difficult - extremely complex fingerings and harmonies - turns one's brain to mush.

Although some of Debussy's art music is also similarly mind-crushing, but not in the same way...it takes more to paint the picture the composer is trying to portray.


I tried to quote La Chopiniste's subsequent post as well, but I still haven't figured out how to get two or more quotes into the one post - all help gratefully received... (IMG:style_emoticons/default/ph34r.gif)

Anyway! At one point, I think before the arrival of baby no. 4, I was working for a second performance diploma (which I never did), and was playing Bach's Italian Concerto. The first and third movement I had pretty well sussed, but I could not, for the life of me, make a job of the slow movement - which is sight-readable. My point is that "difficulty" is a subjective thing. The other two movements are much more technically demanding, but when they're there, they're there. But the difficulty in getting the cantabile and the mood of the middle movement just right, without romantasizing, really daunted me. I felt so exposed. The difference between it sounding childish, and it sounding fantastic, was so small, yet so immense.
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post Sep 7 2006, 02:54 AM
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QUOTE(tremolololo @ May 25 2005, 08:21 PM) *

In my opinion, there's no such thing as a most difficult piece. Each hard piece is hard in its own way so it's a matter of personal taste for different people!


agree. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)


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