berberry writes:
Have you ever seen Franco Zeffirelli's film version of La Traviata? It stars Placido Domingo and Teresa Stratas. Magnificent!
Nope.
My dad is a pianist. That's probably why I am a pure classical person.
Regarding Liszt's hungarian rhapsodies, my sister is the only one of us young'uns that could play them musically. She actually won 1st place in a piano competition at her college by playing one of the liszt's monsters... can't remember which one though. That was 6 years ago. I think the judges just gave it to her because the piece was so damn freaking hard.
Anyway, I love piano, but I'm a clarinet person. If you think Liszt is hard for the pianist, you should listen to the Neilsen Clarinet Concerto. Every clarinetist known in the history of the world has to stumble and skip a note here and there to get through the concerto.
I wish I could find the recording of my performance of the Mozart Clarinet Concerto with my orchestra. Been looking for it for the last year or so. Damn.
Anyway, time to go listen to Rachmaninov's 2nd piano concerto.
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