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I'm listening even as we speak to Claudio Arrau play Liszt's B minor Piano Sonata and the Trancendental Etudes.
As somebody who, in another life, wishes he would have done more with piano, it doesn't get much more amazing (or incredibly difficult technically) than these pieces. The second and fourth movements of the sonata are amazing, and the Mazeppa (no. 4) and Harmonies du soir (no. 11) are particularly standouts from the Etudes.
DEFINITELY worth downloading off of itunes, I think, if you want to hear just what a piano can be made to do in the right hands...
As somebody who, in another life, wishes he would have done more with piano, it doesn't get much more amazing (or incredibly difficult technically) than these pieces. The second and fourth movements of the sonata are amazing, and the Mazeppa (no. 4) and Harmonies du soir (no. 11) are particularly standouts from the Etudes.
DEFINITELY worth downloading off of itunes, I think, if you want to hear just what a piano can be made to do in the right hands...