#Liszt transcription beethoven symphony 5 plus#
On the plus side, if you need to practice your eighth and sixteenth notes over triplets, this is a great piece for that, because it repeats the same eighth and sixteenth patterns over triplets, using the same notes, over and over and over again. Now, I know this is supposed to represent Beethoven's unwinding while going into the woods and getting away from the stress of civilization, but that doesn't make it musically interesting, at least to me. I was surprised by how repetitious it was. It is very repetitious, playing the same motives over and over again. The development, though, is surprisingly bland.
It works musically, the great theme is there.
My mind would start to wander, after being enthralled by the first half. In fact, that happened to me with the second part of the 1st movement also. The rest of the movements I'd sort of zone out and lose focus when listening (usually in my car). I'm not super familiar with the symphony, but the only movement that really wowed me was the 1st. Peters edition of Beethoven Symphonies 6-9, edited by Otto Singer, largely for the 6th. I will be seeing Frederic Chiu perform the Beethoven-Liszt 5th Symphony in concert in a few days. It has finally been purchased by someone else, but I do not find my procrastination troubling, even as I'm sure Katsaris would easily eclipse any other set.Why would I listen to Beethoven's Symphonies on the piano when I have recordings of Furtwänlger, Scherchen, Szell, Klemperer, Weingartner, Mengalberg, Asahina, Abravanel, Krips, Munch, Monteux, Kleiber, Koussevitzky, and others conducting fine orchestras in perfomances of far more expressive power? I use the Liszt transcriptions as a means for my own private access into this world without currently being a conductor and having access to an orchestra, and there is their merit. Every time I went in I thought of buying it, but instead walked out with other material. In a local second hand shop, I had seen for a number of months, a sealed copy of Katsaris's recordings of all the Symphonies for a very reasonable price. I'd love to do the 3rd, but.here I may make my own transcription, for in Liszt's writing, as in many of the others, the Symphony simply does not translate well to the piano. I've often times played around with the 7th and it has reaped musical awards, but the scherzo and finale are quite imposing for these pianistic short comings.
It's just my opinion that the Liszt-Beethoven Symphonies are very unpianistic.easily the most unpianistic thing he realized.
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