How To Use Liszt In A Sentence
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To the comment that the Orientalist composer's intoxicating minor mode—based on what is called the ahava-rabba mode in Hebrew cantillation and klezmer music—is virtually the same as the mode Liszt called the "Hungarian Minor" in his rhapsodies, Mr. Botstein says that "many scholars have pointed out that the same musical gestures end up as ethnic signals for any number of cultures.
Go East, Monsieur
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The critic and dictionary-maker, Fétis, declared that the whole affair was simply an advertising scheme of Liszt's.
The Love Affairs of Great Musicians, Volume 2
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The Liszt, a showpiece in any conductor's hands, but certainly one in Stokowski's hands, could be more demonic, however.
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Technical polish was too often sacrificed to visceral excitement and excessively schmaltzy rubato - in short, the sort of interpretation that suits the image of Liszt the vulgarian.
Pianists Andre Watts and Evgeny Kissin offer Liszt recitals
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Liszt tells the poet's story with music that is memorably melodious and dramatic; this is one of the highlights among the thirteen.
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If Richter's Brahms is a revelation, then his playing of Liszt is without equal.
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The ballade, perhaps an 1848 homage to Liszt's soon-to-be-dead friend Chopin, was played every bit as tempestuously as one could wish for.
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The present compilation combines aspects of both the flamboyant virtuoso and the profound spiritualist that together formed the personality of Franz Liszt.
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Vilter's economic thoughts were deeply affected by Liszt, a German economist.
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All his life he has remained faithful to his admiration of Liszt -- since 1858, when he dedicated a _Veni Creator_ to "the Abbé Liszt," until 1886, when, a few months after Liszt's death, he dedicated his masterpiece, the _Symphonic avec orgue_, "To the memory of Franz Liszt." [
Musicians of To-Day
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Liszt bit his lower lip, readying his roan horse for the long trip ahead.
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A spotlight cuts its way onto the dark stage, and, the crowd roaring, into the light bounds the glitzily dressed superstar - Franz Liszt.
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On this occasion he will be performing one prelude and fugue by Bach, a Hungarian Rhapsody by Liszt and ‘Airs of Spain’ by Albeniz.
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At the time Rachmaninov wrote, he competed with variations on the same theme by Liszt, Schumann, and Brahms.
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I thought for sure that "atonal" would first turn up in a discussion of Liszt's music, but "omnitonal" seems to be the phrase that his contemporaries — those who had the chance to hear pieces like the Bagatelle, at least — used.
Mod squad
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Liszt, that amiable critic replied that the word "grotesque" had no place in piano playing -- that they should properly be called jocose, or something of that sort.
The Masters and their Music A series of illustrative programs with biographical, esthetical, and critical annotations
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This scheme is similar to the structure of the Liszt Hungarian Rhapsodies in that the first section is generally slow, rhapsodic and lyrical, often in a parlando style, while the second section is fast and technically brilliant.
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And Liszt himself is redeemed as a lieder composer, underrated despite fascinating early efforts by Bernac and Poulenc to popularize his songs.
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His discography has included Scriabin, Shostakovich, Beethoven, Chopin, Liszt, Milhaud, and Rodrigo.
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Sardanapalus" [An opera planned by Liszt] (Italian) will most probably be produced next season (May) in Vienna.
Letters
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Unless you count the Halloween-ish stuff, like Moussorgsky or Liszt or Berlioz.
Rites of Autumn
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No. Walker's prologue and epilogue (a revealing look at various parries arguing over where Liszt should be buried) clearly frame the diary's events.
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‘Play it yourself then,’ said Liszt, rising from the piano, rather piqued.
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Berman gives a rip-roaring account of this more popular of Liszt's two piano concertos in 1976; a work which can only be appreciated live as here before a Turin audience.
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Denk deserves credit for using Beethoven's long-winded cadenza and giving it a blood and thunder performance out of a Liszt drawing room, which may have cemented his relationship with the audience.
Laurence Vittes: Jeremy Denk Meets Gustavo and Beethoven on the Hill at Mouse Hall
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The pianolist may now place Liszt's "Campanella" (Bell rondo) on the instrument.
The Pianolist A Guide for Pianola Players
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To the comment that the Orientalist composer's intoxicating minor mode—based on what is called the ahava-rabba mode in Hebrew cantillation and klezmer music—is virtually the same as the mode Liszt called the "Hungarian Minor" in his rhapsodies, Mr. Botstein says that "many scholars have pointed out that the same musical gestures end up as ethnic signals for any number of cultures.
Go East, Monsieur
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Berlioz tried such a depiction at the end of the Damnation, and in spite of the strange vocabulary of the chorus, “Irimiru Karabrao, Sat raik Irkimour,” and other pretty tricks, he succeeded no better than Liszt.
Musical Memories
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I was therefore able to rejoice Liszt with the following laconical protest which I sent him from my Swiss resort: 'Stahr is wrong, and Lohengrin is right.'
My Life — Volume 1
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Franz Liszt was prominent in the European music life in 19~ ( th ) century.
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In Beethoven's music any note from the semiquaver to the minim is capable of functioning as the main beat, and such virtuosos as Liszt and Paganini simply played some of their own music as fast as possible.
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Time to have the tissues on stand by to dab, what we reckon, will be a short spell of weeping in the company of Liszt.
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There is no need to tell you what immense pleasure and instruction Liszt gives his silent and attentive audience.
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Ladies and gentleman, this is Linda Liszt.
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Even a decade later, Schumann claimed that Liszt's pianistic flair would always overshadow his compositional achievements.
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Of course, some will assert that the inclusion of these transcriptions in this cycle is completely unnecessary, since the music is more Beethoven's than Liszt's.
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At the time Rachmaninov wrote, he competed with variations on the same theme by Liszt, Schumann, and Brahms.
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The propulsive contours Liszt assigns to the left hand all but vanished, thus attenuating texture and the work itself of its internecine dramas.
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Liszt returned his attention to where Caroline was, but he saw not the girl, but an old parlourmaid of the queen.
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In fact Liszt himself played Mendelssohn's brand new First Piano Concerto, sight-reading the far-from legible manuscript in the Erard piano showrooms in Paris, much to Mendelssohn's amazement.
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Your dear letter has brought me still nearer to you in the crisis of the estro poetico, which the "Hungaria" [One of Liszt's symphonic poems.] brought forth in me; and, thanks to this good influence, I hope you will not be dissatisfied with the composition.
Letters
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Your charming, gifted illustration of my little Quelle [spring] [Liszt's "Au bord d'une source" (Annees de Pelerinage), for three violins concertante (Schott, Mainz)] delights me anew.
Letters
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a depiction at the end of the Damnation, and in spite of the strange vocabulary of the chorus, "Irimiru Karabrao, Sat raik Irkimour," and other pretty tricks, he succeeded no better than Liszt.
Musical Memories
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Paganini's 24th caprice for solo violin, itself a variation on an original theme, was creatively diversified by Brahms, Liszt, Szymanowski and, most lyrically, Rachmaninov.
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Liszt felt a part of him crumble and dissolve, and he suddenly felt empty.
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Although Jarnot delayed his arrival to Washington by two days to combat the flu, vocal coarseness was seldom heard in his full program of songs by Wagner, Liszt, and Duparc.
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But he seemed ill at ease in Liszt's flamboyant Spanish Rhapsody, which in his hands wanted for inflection, contrast and affective intensity.
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It was followed by an explosively dazzling Liszt Hungarian Rhapsody No 11, which affirmed her purposeful and communicative pianism.
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The heady progress of Liszt's career was brought to an abrupt halt by the unexpected death of his father in 1827.
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He has harmony without melody; he invents and executes marvellous variations upon verse; he has footed the tight-rope of the galliambic measure and the swaying planks of various trochaic experiments; but his resolve to astonish is stronger than his desire to charm, and he lets technical skill carry him into such excesses of ugliness in verse as technical skill carried Liszt, and sometimes Berlioz, in music.
Figures of Several Centuries
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Liszt was sitting with Madame Mayendorff on the settee behind me.
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Liszt returned his attention to where Caroline was, but he saw not the girl, but an old parlourmaid of the queen.
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Liszt's transcriptions of other composers' music are as highly regarded as his original piano works.
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Raff became Liszt's musical assistant for six years, profiting greatly.
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His recent CD recording of Liszt's piano music received critical acclaim.
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Liszt's "At the Spring" is a charming composition somewhat in the same style as the "Campanella," but instead of describing silver-toned chimes of bells, reproducing the purl of a bosky spring.
The Pianolist A Guide for Pianola Players
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Liszt developed a physical virtuosity for the instrument and transcribed for it, sacrificing musical subtlety to an astonishing mechanical technique.
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Ai orlsew am habbing de loliday an de liszt of stuff ai hab tew do befoar ai goes is sew looong dat ai wunder iffits wurth it.
Kittehs Vs. the Easter Egg - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger?
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The pieces were a Schubert-Liszt transcription and a study by Scriabin.
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I was overwhelmed by his commanding, assured musicianship in Bach, Haydn, Chopin, Smetana, Liszt, and Grainger.
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Moreover there are pieces of which the Liszt "Campanella," the Mendelssohn "Rondo Capriccioso" and the "Rosamunde" impromptu of Schubert, are examples, that, when played on the pianola by a musical person, sound just as well as if they came from under the fingers of the greatest living virtuoso -- possibly better.
The Pianolist A Guide for Pianola Players
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Last week at the Royal Festival Hall he tackled the twin peaks of Liszt 1 and 2, each time arriving at the summit as calm and relaxed as if he had merely been for an agreeable ramble down a sun-filled country lane.
Così fan tutte; Dream Hunter; Commotio; Stephen Hough, LPO/Alsop – review
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Surrounding these new works were solid interpretations of Liszt, Debussy and Granados ripe with coloristic variety and prodigious technical execution.
Donna Fish: Artists to Watch
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They have done several biographical works on Mozart and Liszt.
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Liszt's piano music presents an enormous technical challenge.
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He calls Verdi "the last naïve master of Western music, in an age given over to the Sentimentalisches" - the self-conscious, subversive "sentimentalists," such as Wagner, Liszt and their modernist followers, whose agenda-laden art has held sway ever since.
Hopes Dashed at City Opera As Dead Man Walking Disappoints
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The critic and dictionary-maker, Fetis, declared that the whole affair was simply an advertising scheme of Liszt's.
The Love Affairs of Great Musicians
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Liszt's piano music presents an enormous technical challenge.
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Just as the Marquand Chapel and its organ will be a good fit for Mr. Suzuki's early-music repertoire come April, he said, so too were the grander 2,695-seat Woolsey Hall and the Newberry organ suited for epic pieces like Mr. Preston's concert closer, Liszt's Fantasy and Fugue on the Chorale "Ad nos, ad salutarem undam.
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Read together with my matter-of-fact statements, Liszt's hyperbolical and circumlocutional poetic prose will not be misunderstood by the reader.
Frederic Chopin as a Man and Musician
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The same goes for the Tannhäuser pieces, though Liszt's transcriptions work better here.
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Liszt's piano music presents an enormous technical challenge.
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After the death of Liszt in 1888, there was contention among the critical hierarchy over the musical value of his works.
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Liszt's piano music presents an enormous technical challenge.
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It is a great pity that Maag did not find time to explore the wide oeuvre of Liszt's symphonic poems as on these two accounts, he was a born interpreter in this field.
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Chopin, "the poet of the piano, " was as great an innovation in the pianistic world as Liszt, whose dazzling spectacular virtuosity was the antithesis of Chopin's more refined genius.
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Liszt transcribed Beethoven's symphonies, as well as a myriad other vocal and instrumental works, for piano.
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Cziffra's affinity with Liszt is strongly evident on four of the eight discs.
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A series of Liszt transcriptions of Schubert lieder found Gekic at his most poetic.
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Liszt's piano music presents an enormous technical challenge.
