http://www.metafilter.com/tags/balakirev Posts tagged with 'balakirev' at MetaFilter. Sat, 06 Jan 2007 08:54:50 -0800 Sat, 06 Jan 2007 08:54:50 -0800 en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 60 http://www.metafilter.com/57547/Showoffs%2Dand%2Dknucklebusters <a href="http://forums.abrsm.org/lofiversion/index.php/t6557.html">What's the most difficult piano piece?</a> Opinions <a href="http://www.sputnikmusic.com/forums/showthread.php?t=260023">vary</a>. Is it <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Campanella">La Campanella</a>, written by Liszt to show off what only he could do? (<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dqvWBbKMh9g">performance</a>, <a href="http://www.sheetmusicarchive.net/dlpage_new.cfm?composition_id=774">score</a>) Is it Balakirev's <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islamey:_an_Oriental_Fantasy">Islamey</a>, which even Balakirev struggled to play? (<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YDOCXcaNdjk">performance</a>, <a href="http://www.sheetmusicarchive.net/dlpage_new.cfm?composition_id=1107">score</a>) Or Ravel's <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaspard_de_la_nuit">Gaspard de la Nuit</a>, written to top <i>Islamey</i>? (<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ez1s9JCzvQg">performance</a>, <a href="http://www.sheetmusicarchive.net/dlpage_new.cfm?composition_id=1332">score</a>) Does Godowsky double his points by reconfiguring the already-difficult Chopin for the left hand? (<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oc-aOYgw3-E">performance</a>) And if someone plays all four hours of Sorabji's <i>Opus Clavicembalisticum</i>, written across four staves to fit the extra notes, will anyone listen? (<a href="http://www.bis.se/naxos.php?aID=BIS-CD-1062-64">perfomance excerpts</a>, <a href="http://www.opusclavicembalisticum.blogspot.com/">score excerpts</a>)</a> tag:metafilter.com,2007:site.57547 Sat, 06 Jan 2007 08:54:50 -0800 balakirev classical difficult godowsky lizst music piano ravel sorabji virtuoso argybarg