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Liszt — The 3 Piano Concertos and Hungarian Fantasy — Review

Liszt -- The 3 Piano Concertos and Hungarian Fantasy -- Review Franz Liszt, along with Rachmaninoff, holds a special place in classical music as having been 2 great Classical/Romantic composers who were also super-titans of the piano -- arguably the greatest, or 2 of the greatest of all time. Of course, one thing which separates them is that Liszt died in 1886, 2 years before the video camera technology aka First Video Image in 1888. In contrast to Rachmaninoff, who died in 1943, so as you may have already surmised, we have umpteen recordings and live performances of Rachmaninoff on the piano, so as my aunt used to say, "you can't tell me any stories" i.e., we are unequivocally certain from videos and recordings that Rachmaninoff was a super-pianist, but not of Liszt. That said. Historical accounts and consensus are sources we use to research and denote past events as well as historical accounts, and all these point to Liszt having been a super-pianist -- as great as Rachmaninoff -- some may argue even greater than Rachmaninoff. Take your pick?!?! In his day, Liszt was considered so inordinately great at the piano, and his skills in such high demands, that he was booked non-stop like no other concert pianist [performing mostly performing the music of other composers] before him and arguably since him. As you may have hypothesized, he had little to no time for composition. This is why you'll notice Liszt started to compose his piano concertos, years, sometimes even decades before being able to complete them. Liszt retired from the concert stage in 1847, leaving him plenty of time to compose and to subsequently finish compositions he had started many years prior. PC. No 1 Genesis/idea of which was started in 1830, but not completed until 1855. Cutting edge work, somewhat of closeted mini-triangle concerto -- a percussion instrument that up until that point had mostly been used in orchestral compositions, now becomes the piano's delightful sidekick in this concerto -- some may argue the piano is the triangle's side kick in this concerto?! Take your pick. FYI: This is Liszt's most famous aka big tune piano concerto. PC No. 2 Again, like the prior, Genesis/idea started in 1839, but not finished and performed until 1857, and then revised in 1861. Imho, more of a symphonic poem than a piano concerto. One could say this work, metaphorically, is one in which composers [in this case Liszt] divulge their musical ideas and at times return back to it and reuse its material to create other works. This is how I'd describe this piano concerto. A unique work. PC. No. 3 was published posthumously. However, and as previously discussed. Genesis/idea started in 1839, but many sources say Liszt finished it in 1847, which would have been the year Liszt retired as a concert pianist. However, this still wouldn't explained why it wasn't published nor performed for the first time until 143 years later. Different anecdotes have circulated -- some say Liszt's students may have taken parts of the score, around the time of Liszt's death? All said. This work of Liszt's remains an enigma. Both this concerto and No. 2 are 1 movement piano concertos. Hungarian Fantasy for Piano and Orchestra aka Fantasy on Hungarian Folk Melodies for Piano and Orchestra. What do you do when your daughter [Cosima] is be-trothed to a very gifted young pianist and conductor who comes from one of the wealthiest and most illustrious of all German families? You give him a gift. You got it. Liszt rehashed his 14th HR, which he composed around the same time and reworked it for Piano and Orchestra, --and viola. On a personal note. This is my favorite composition Liszt wrote for piano and orchestra. It was composed in 1852, premiered in 1853, which would have been 4 years before Cosima and Hans von Bulow got married in 1857. John Sarkis