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The coda to Frédéric Chopin’s Fourth Ballade, Op 52. This Ballade is the ultimate curate’s egg, featuring Chopin at his best juxtaposed with his absolute worst. Pf: Aidan Módica

Vingt Regards sur l'Enfant Jésus: Regard XI Pf: Aidan Módica

Pf: Aidan Módica

I am overjoyed to share this excerpt from Liszt's Sonata played on my newly-acquired 1901 C.Bechstein Model 3 in rosewood with inlay. I went the distance to get it, and it was worth every effort. Liszt was an advocate for the Bechstein piano manufacturers, and no company makes pianos like this in the modern day. If you are interested in this piano, Paul from The Derbyshire Piano Workshop is a s...

Pf: Yekwon Sunwoo

This study by Alkan is often cited as the first piece of music based on a train journey, with the steam engine chugging along, happy passengers riding, and complete with train whistles and sirens. Pf: Mark Viner

This piece contains the most dissonant chord of the nineteenth century: a polychord of an obstinate C augmented over an F diminished chord. The ascending melodic motif in the lowest voice here of E, F, B is all in the same pedal, creating this acute dissonance. It has been fittingly described by Peter Raabe as the sound of a prisoner banging on his cell wall, knowing full well that nobody can h...

From a live recital I performed on 3rd November 2023 in Christ's College, Cambridge, on a Steinway B. Pf: Aidan Módica

The finest and most beautiful page of music ever penned. This is from a live recital I performed on the 3rd November 2023 in Christ's College, Cambridge, on a Steinway B. Pf: Aidan Módica

Ludwig Uhland’s poem "Hohe Liebe" speaks of the heaven on earth that has come from being drunk in the arms of love. Liszt's transcription here is one of his best, and my favourite of this particular set. Yet again, uploads shall be slow as I embark on the next exciting chapter of my educational (and musical) journey. Pf: Kathryn Stott

The best and noblest of the rhapsodies. (Friska is a tiny bit scrappy, apologies, but I hope it is convincing enough.) Pf: Aidan Módica

Thank you for 2000 subscribers!! We have Liszt to thank for the title which has clung, with Wagner’s approval, to the last scene of Tristan. Of course, this would be the last opera that Liszt heard before his death, and it had been close to his heart from its inception. A short phrase taken from the second act duet introduces a transcription of Isolde’s Love-Death which manages to convey not ju...

0:00 - I. Allegro con spirito 5:57 - II. Andante un poco adagio 10:46 - III. Rondo (Allegretto grazioso) Pf: Aidan Módica

Jean Sibelius - Le Sapin, Op 75 No 5 (Módica)

Béla Bártok - 15 Ungarische Bauernlieder, Sz.71 (Kocsis)

Clara Schumann - Ich stand in dunklen Träumen, Op 13/1 (Módica)

Frédéric Chopin - Fantaisie-Impromptu, Op 66 (Módica)

Franz Liszt - Sonnambula de Bellini: Große Konzert-Fantasie, S.393iii (Bellucci)

Franz Liszt - Grand Solo de concert, S.365 (Howard)

Kaikhosru Shapurji Sorabji - Prelude, Interlude and Fugue, KSS25 (Habermann)

Franz Liszt - Am Grabe Richard Wagners, S202 (Jandó)

Franz Liszt - Festpolonaise, S.230a (Kamieniak)

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Franz Liszt - Zwölf Lieder von Fr. Schubert No 8 "Gretchen am Spinnrade", S.558a/8

Franz Liszt - Don Sanche, ou Le château d’amour, S.1 [Full opera]

Franz Liszt - Sonetto 104 del Petrarca, S.161/5 (Módica)

Franz Liszt - Sursum Corda, S.163/7 (Módica)

Justin Hurwitz - Mia & Sebastian's Theme