Live 19/02/2010: (video)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nWxkQRuXGy8

Live 12/02/2010: (audio, better quality)

http://dannyknopfler.ic.cz/other/recital...20C%20major.mp3

This is maybe the hardest etude I have played so far. It has 17 pages btw...

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My two piano live albums (with pieces of Bach, Beethoven, Chopin, Liszt, Smetana, Prokofiev and more composers) are available here:

http://muj2.edisk.cz/stahnout-soubor/991...ar_85.66MB.html

http://muj7.edisk.cz/stahnout-soubor/410...ar_82.83MB.html

The third one will come very soon.

Thank-you Daniel. Many of us had no idea that Smetana would have written such a piece as this. It sounds very difficult. There are some internal voices that could stand out more, but it seems you have most of the really difficult passages under your fingers nicely.

Most non-pianists don't recognize the attainment of a piece such as this is almost the equivalent of a comparable athletic achievement. Daniel here will have to play this piece often enough to keep it in his repertoire where it will undergo a process of gradual transformation as it becomes part of himself. Should he neglect it for too long, he must begin again to recapture it. Such is the nature of pianism.

It seems likely though that this piece will get better under Daniel's practice and performances of it. Thanks again, Daniel.

Thanks very much, David.

Yes, I believe that it will get better. It is always very different, if you play piace such as this etude for half of year, or three years...