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Somehow I missed this. The Liszt 6th Rhapsody was my BIG piece at uni back in the glory days, shortly before the shift to Thomas Cranmer and resultant liturgical high tides.
This is incredible playing. As much as I practiced, I never could match that playing at 1:23. Truly the playing of a Goddess.
Thanks for posting this Jason. Wonderful camera work. Such clarity and ease. Goddess indeed. She's quite young here and I get the sense that she's holding back a bit like she's keeping her fire in check...oh no wait a minute (or 5 min), there she is!
I totally forget to mention that when I was learning this piece, I had no knowledge of Argerich's rendition; it was Horowitz who was totally freaking me out!!
Now here's an oldish thread that I'm happy to see return, since I've started investigating the Hungarian Rhapsodies myself recently. Thanks so much for the original post.
In the name of great artists playing Rhapsodies that are multiples of 6, here's an astonishing recording I found a few days ago. Van Cliburn playing the 12th:
Now here's an oldish thread that I'm happy to see return, since I've started investigating the Hungarian Rhapsodies myself recently. Thanks so much for the original post.
The thread is not really all that old - it is certainly not past the expiry date.
And how do we determine the expiry date? Easy - it is by whether the participants in the thread are still active here, and are likely to be around to respond, should anything they have said in the thread trigger a comment. It's the way a forum works, after all.
All that seems obvious to me, but apparently it is something akin to an extremely advanced philosophical/mathematical proposition that causes some folks here to simply plotz, because their circuits have overloaded.
And how do we determine the expiry date? Easy - it is by whether the participants in the thread are still active here, and are likely to be around to respond, should anything they have said in the thread trigger a comment. It's the way a forum works, after all.
The decision as to whether an "old" thread should be resurrected requires the weighing of several factors:
1. Whether the original forum participants are still around.
2. Whether the contents of the original thread still has some value (e.g., whether the initial posts were insightful, thoughtful, articulate, etc.).
3. Whether the subject of the original thread remains viable (e.g., a thread on "favorite piano concertos" that primarily focuses on music that more than 50 years old would remain viable for many years into the future).
4. Whether the topic of the thread has become "dated" or was initially "time sensitive." For example, a thread on an "upcoming" 2008 NY Philharmonic concert would become obsolete once the concert happened, or otherwise became irrelevant.
5. Whether, notwithstanding the foregoing, it nevertheless makes sense to "reinvent the wheel" and simply begin a new thread, thereby ignoring all of the preserved content of any former threads.
And how do we determine the expiry date? Easy - it is by whether the participants in the thread are still active here, and are likely to be around to respond, should anything they have said in the thread trigger a comment. It's the way a forum works, after all.
The decision as to whether an "old" thread should be resurrected requires the weighing of several factors:
1. Whether the original forum participants are still around.
2. Whether the contents of the original thread still has some value (e.g., whether the initial posts were insightful, thoughtful, articulate, etc.).
3. Whether the subject of the original thread remains viable (e.g., a thread on "favorite piano concertos" that primarily focuses on music that more than 50 years old would remain viable for many years into the future).
4. Whether the topic of the thread has become "dated" or was initially "time sensitive." For example, a thread on an "upcoming" 2008 NY Philharmonic concert would become obsolete once the concert happened, or otherwise became irrelevant.
5. Whether, notwithstanding the foregoing, it nevertheless makes sense to "reinvent the wheel" and simply begin a new thread, thereby ignoring all of the preserved content of any former threads.
In fact, there is never a need to resurrect an old thread in order to accomplish any of the stuff you are holding out as excuses. If you are interested in something in the archives, just start a new thread and embed a link to whatever thread you think is worth our attention, with an explanation of why you think it is worth resurrecting. Or just quote the material of interest, if it is short.
And if it's one of those inane "your favorite" threads that everybody loves, who cares? Just start a new one. If somebody is desperately interested in the favorites of somebody who hasn't even been posting here for years, they may need psychiatric help.
This thread is over a month old! Come on guys, move on will you? Argerichfan hasn't posted here in over 24 hours! You're going to ruin the day of three people at pianoworld!
EDIT: I posted in the wrong thread, had multiple tabs open and wasn't paying attention, sorry...
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I'm not as big on this piece as I used to be, but I marvel at how Martha plays it. Wow.
Me neither these days, but it was the only Rhapsody I studied and performed. I think the 9th the best of the lot -and take your pick on yt- but I have always had a soft spot for the 4th. Alas, nothing much on yt.
