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Great Pianists' Technique: Repeated Notes

A collection of some memorable moments in repeated note-playing. This video can also be seen as a hymn of gratitude to Sebastien Erard for inventing the double escapement. And since Liszt greatly admired Erard's pianos it will not come as a surprise that most of the examples in this collection are Liszt's (we should perhaps blame Chopin for using the stiffer Pleyel's pianos :-) ). It is a really sad fact of life that 15 min. is such a short unit of time and regrettably many other interesting excerpts (like Chopin Etude op.10/7) were left out. This is NOT meant to be a comprehensive catalogue of all repeated notes appearing in piano literature. 1) Moszkowski Caprice Espagnol Hofmann (1916); (The eternal question of "Who is the greatest pianist ever?" will always remain elusive. But if we slightly change it into "Who is the pianist with the greatest repeated notes ever?" then the answer can only be "Josef Hofmann". In the Moszkowski's Caprice he dispatches the thorny long sequences of repeated notes at a whopping speed of 120 a dotted crotchet! Even a tremendous virtuoso like Eileen Joyce does not get close to Josef's stupendous rendition of repeated notes (Eileen's sensuous recording can be found here:    • Eileen Joyce: Moszkowski Caprice Espagnol  ). I bet that Josef could play faster repeated notes on an upright piano than most pianists could on a good grand piano. I tried to include as many of Josef's excerpts as possible but regrettably I had to leave out the live performance of the Caprice from his golden jubilee concert in 1937 and Schubert-Liszt's Erlkonig.) 2) Liszt Tarantella (from Venezia e Napoli) Hofmann (1916) 0:43; 3) Liszt La Campanella Hofmann (1923) 1:23; 4) Liszt Rhapsody No.2 Hofmann (1922) 1:54; 5) Liszt Rhapsody No.13 Busoni (1922) 2:20; 6) Mendelssohn Scherzo op.16 No.2 Risler (1917) 2:40; (The repeated notes are not very challenging here but Risler's lightness of touch is miraculous. "Eduard Risler has an inimitable soft touch. He has discovered those last delicate nuances which lie precisely between tone and silence. His tones seem not to begin and not to cease; they are woven out of ethereal gossamer." from Oskar Bie, "A history of the pianoforte and pianoforte players" 1899.) 7) Scarlatti Sonata K.141 (L.422) Argerich Live 3:02; (I think that the interpretation of this toccata would benefit from a slightly slower tempo; this said Argerich's repeated notes (116 a dotted crotchet) are truly phenomenal.) 8) Ravel Scarbo Argerich Live (1978) 3:37; 9) Schumann Carnaval Reconnassaince Michelangeli Live (1957) 4:01; 10) Ravel Ondine Michelangeli Live (1959) 4:18; (Arturo's supreme control makes the impossible possible, realizing Debussy's utopia of making the piano sound "like an instrument without hammers".) 11) Debussy Etude No.9 ("Pour les notes repetees") Bavouzet (2008) 5:08; 12) Liszt Transcendental Etude No.2 Berman Live (1976) 5:42; complete performance: http://www.youtube.com/user/Stockhaus... 13) Wagner-Liszt Tannhauser Overture Bolet Live (1974) 5:56; 14) Scarlatti K.96 (L.465) Zecchi (1937) 7:05; 15) Scarlatti K.455 (L.209) Horowitz (1962) 7:26; 16) Liszt Rhapsody No.6 Horowitz (1947) 7:54; (there are many other great performances of this famous passage so the choice was hard; Argerich and Cziffra in particular are both wonderful and play this excerpt slightly faster and perhaps more excitingly; but in the end I opted for Volodja's who marvelously captures the capriciousness of this passage.) 17) Thalberg Grande Fantasie on Rossini's Semiramide Earl Wild Live (1981) 8:44; 18) Liszt Rhapsody No.9 Gilels (1951) 9:16; 19) Liszt Reminiscences des Huguenots Cohen (1996) 9:37; 20) Liszt Totentanz (version for solo piano) Cohen (1996) 10:29; 21) Alkan Concerto for piano solo, first mov. Hamelin (2006) 10:57; (this is just a small excerpt from what are perhaps the most gargantuan repeated notes ever penned.) 22) Rzewski "The people united will never be defeated", Variation XXIV; Hamelin (1998) 11:32; (Your new alarm clock...) 23) Liszt Rigoletto Paraphrase Bellucci (2001) 11:48; 24) Schubert-Liszt Erlkonig Richter Live (1949) 12:16; (the terrifying repeated notes of Erlkonig are not Liszt's invention but already appear in Schubert's Lied; Schubert's predilection for this technique can also be seen in the finale of his Trio in E-flat D929. ) 25) Liszt Mephisto Waltz No.1 Richter Live (1958) 13:06; 26) Scriabin Piano Sonata No.9 RIchter Live (1966) 13:40; 27) Ravel Alborada del Gracioso Richter Live (1965) 14:13; 28) Prokofiev Piano Sonata No.8 Richter (1961) 14:38