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a miscellaneous mixture of Liszt's Transcendental Etude No. 8 and several others

pop music of it's time. great pop music, mind. don't be droll about this stuff. it's supposed to be fun.

Well I'd like to go listen to Appassionato rather than a follower's piece😂

These comments are kinda harsh. I kinda don't care about the harmonic complexity. It's clearly not what Alkan wanted to highlight anyways. I personally hear the marching, almost menacing rhythm and the interesting textures. The ridiculously virtuosic nature of it, coupled with the primitive underlying material actually produces a pretty comical effect. Not a masterpiece by any stretch of the imagination, but still a great miniature piece that I appreciate for what it's trying to achieve.

People saying this is musical forgot that this is an ETUDE

Is that the 9th symphony from Beethoven? Amazing.

And imagine that this isn't the real speed which this piece should be played with, but like exactly x1.25 of this speed 😅

«Bravoure» is «virtuosity» in English, isn't it?

Richter and Minoru Nojima are great for this!

3:14 to 3:44 almost unbelievable that these are not two hands playing :)

Early Thalberg without the three handed effect.

I want to hear this on a player piano.

Unnecessary difficult

This sounds like Czerny trying to write an actual piece that isn’t just an etude, which he never managed to do.

5:12 - what kind of sick, twisted, psychopathic sadist would write such fuckery???

These transcriptions as well as his Bach transcriptions are good examples that in order to be truly great you have to be a tireless worker. I can’t even begin to imagine how much effort it must have taken to complete the full cycle.

petition for Alkan Vs Liszt

damn i wish I could play it on my digital piano 😢

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This would be better on the organ. The piano is too thin for this.

This is also one of my favourite nocturnes, although op. 48 no. 1 still stands out to me as one of his greatest this one is certainly close! The whole set of op. 27 really feels a small ballade to me, and for this one there’s that bittersweet feeling to me throughout the whole piece, with that absolutely amazing fioritura in the middle… Chopin had surely created something special, even compared to his own pieces…

If I never knew about this virtual playing project before this I would never believed if someone told me this is by a computer! But then, it brings a different level of thoughts I have never found in other performances nor never thought possibly in this pure virtuosic show-off piece, and I also never heard the trio being able to be played at such a speed with the immense difficulty, truly interesting.

5:12 Is it easier to do no jumps in the right hand and 5 octave jumps in the left hand, or 2 octaves in the right and 3 in the left simultaneously?

WHY so fast???? So unmusical ... so un-Beethoven.

The sudden stop into the Furioso (1:27) is outright terrifying

Credo che alla fine nonostante abbia voluto mettere qualcosa in più sia comunque una semplificazione della versione del 53 di Listz, figuriamoci la versione di Listz del 38, molto più difficile,forse tiene botta ma non del tutto la trascrizione di hamelin

2:24 those 8 bars are the true definition of pain 😭😭

When your cat walks on the keys...

Good heavens! It’s like being stabbed in the ear by all that banging of high notes.

Hamelin is that one nerd that learned every country's capital city + flag by heart.

If anyone wants a human version in the same speed go check out Yi-chung huang's version

You need to get out more - but then so did Alkan

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What if instead of Rudepoema, we had 𝓯𝓻𝓮𝓪𝓴𝔂poema and instead of having a tonal portrait of A. Rubinstein, we had a freaky portrait of M.A Hamelin with his hands smashing the keys.

Pieces* Come on, now.

0:30 That part is just amazing, that G Major section surprised me a bit

Let’s be honest. Op 27 no 2 is beautiful, but we all know that if you put it in front of a non musician(who doesn’t listen to Chopin nocturnes) vs op 9 no 2 it would probably lose 😭

Astounding! Love the drama & energy. Also love the voicing on this piano! And brilliant playing!! ♥️👏

Amazing!! ♥️👏🏅

You deserve danger money if you are going to attempt this beast of a concerto.

Jokes aside, it was a pretty amazing performance by the Hamelin. Surprised this, despite the immense dissonance, did not sound like a mess. The voicing was very sound.

I like Hamelin's interpretation of Ornstein - Danse Sauvage more than this.

I think knowing that this was Alkan overture by literally have an imaginary audio in my head play when I saw the score probably means I know this piece a little bit too well 😅

Bass sounds autistic and that last downhill sounds very Mozartian.

It's impressively virtuosic, and well-performed. But I rarely find any Alkan that moves me. I know there are many that idolise him, and I would love to 'get it' - and get switched on to him, but I remain just impressed at the technique more than the music.

The fact that alkan solo piano concerto can be played but not this just makes it more cursed😊😊😊

hail to Inessa Davydova

0:51 the climax This is why i like a Alkan piece, Honestly

I wanna see Hamelin dance 🕺

ah yes, a march