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> What's The Most Difficult Piano Piece?
DGA
post May 5 2005, 03:28 AM
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Which one? the ones that are really difficult in technique, I don't mean pieces that are extremely long and boring.
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Saxophonist
post May 5 2005, 04:39 PM
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flight of the bumblebee? I wouldnt know about the technique as I have never played it (or attemted it) I WISH!!!!
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Piano_Lady
post May 5 2005, 05:02 PM
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beethoven, moonlight sonata 3rd movement.
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chopet
post May 5 2005, 05:35 PM
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To name a few...
sorabji's opus clavicembalisticum
Godowsky 52 etudes on chopin etudes
Rachmaninoff third piano concerto
Balakirev islamey
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plarinet player
post May 5 2005, 05:46 PM
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My (unknowledgeable) guess would be Liszt cos al all his octaves? also Rachmaninov 3rd piano concerto....scary stuff....
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missfabflute
post May 5 2005, 05:56 PM
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QUOTE (Saxophonist @ May 5 2005, 04:39 PM)
flight of the bumblebee? I wouldnt know about the technique as I have never played it (or attemted it) I WISH!!!!

I love this piece! :wub:

anyway I think Piano concertos are difficult! :o

ohoh! and Chopin stuff like revolutionary etude and fantasy impromptu *dies*
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saxlover
post May 5 2005, 06:18 PM
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Rachmaniov 2nd piano concerto.........not that i will ever learn that!
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sarah-flute
post May 5 2005, 06:20 PM
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Probably ALL of the Rach concertos... and the Rhapsody...
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saxlover
post May 5 2005, 06:27 PM
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QUOTE (sarah-flute @ May 5 2005, 07:20 PM)
Probably ALL of the Rach concertos... and the Rhapsody...

yeah. but they're so beautiful...i wish id be good enough to play them ever
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Wobby
post May 5 2005, 06:32 PM
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Gaspard de la Nuit! Basically quite alot of Debussy and Ravel. Fantasie Impromptu and Flight of the Bumblebee aren't really as challenging as they sound when you actually sit down and try to play them, it's just getting it up to speed. I have heard of the opus clavicembalisticum, but unfortunately I've never actually heard the song itself - way too long, so no-one can put it on the internet.
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hannah
post May 5 2005, 09:04 PM
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Also Beethoven Hammerklavier Sonata, Liszt Bm Sonata, Prokofiev 2nd Concerto.....
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pianoplayer
post May 6 2005, 05:43 AM
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I agree with chopet. I will also add to the list

Chopin's Etudes, Ballades
Liszt's Etudes, Transcriptions
Rach Etude-Tableaux
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Kingbull
post May 16 2005, 01:19 PM
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You can also try Bugatti Step (very nice and difficult, by Jaroslav Ježek, not well known czechoslovak componist). If you´d want more details or even the score of this piece, I can send it to you...

kingbull@centrum.cz
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Petite Joueuse
post May 16 2005, 08:58 PM
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Surely the most difficult piece is the one you can play flawlessly in your living-room on your own piano, but when an examiner is listening in it feels as if you've never played the piece before!! Happens to me regularly!
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SteveHopwood
post May 16 2005, 10:57 PM
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For me Rachmaninov's 3rd concerto. I have performed many ridiculous pieces in my career, but this was the silliest. It nearly killed me.

Here is a story for you all. Cyril Smith was a leading British pianist of the 1930's,40's and 50's. According to a biography I read as a student in the 1970's, Smith was performing the piece regularly as a young man when he came upon a disc (presumably a roll) of Rachmaninov himself playing it. Smith listened to the disc and concluded that he was not good enough, so he fled to his parents' home and spent 10 hours a day, for a fortnight, learning to play the piece blindfold.

Ye Gods
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