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	Opening Day Recordings
		Etude 1: "Preludio" in C major: The shortest of the études, it is indeed a prelude and a warm-up to the next eleven blockbusters.
		Etude 2: in A minor: The "fate" motif appears relentlessly throughout this étude, which is also characterized by interlocking chords and octaves, leaping over the keyboard at vertiginous speeds.
		Etude 8: "Wilde Jagd" (Wild Hunt), in c minor is a wild ride for both pianist and the audience, who are swept along in its tumultuous wake.
	www.openingday.com /catalogue/9322.html (1712 words)

	Transcendental Etudes - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Transcendental Etudes (sometimes Études d'exécution transcendante or Transcendental Studies) is a series of twelve compositions written for solo piano by Franz Liszt, begun in 1826 and finalized in 1851.
		The etudes, particularly in their second-version form, are among the most difficult pieces for piano ever written.
		Liszt realized that his virtuoso piano technique, which influenced the composition of the etudes, was virtually unsurpassable; consequently the etudes in their final form are less difficult, but still pose incredible physical and technical demands for the performer.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Transcendental_Etudes (401 words)

	Étude - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		An etude (from the French word étude meaning "study") is a short musical composition designed to provide practice in a particular technical skill in the performance of a solo instrument.
		Etudes for other instruments have been written as well, for example Rodolphe Kreutzer's etudes for the violin and Villa-Lobos' etudes for the guitar.
		Some teachers have argued that etudes which are unmusical and serve only to develop the fingers are of no value, and may actually be harmful - Abby Whiteside is one example of a pedagogue who advocated the total abandonment of exercises in the Hanon and Czerny mold.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Etude (848 words)

	Liszt
		While undoubtedly useful for the purpose of developing technique, Liszt's etudes differ from Chopin's Etudes in that they lack the relentless, one-sided focus on a specific technical aspect that can be seen in the latter.
		An exception is paganini etude no. 3 - the famous "La campanella" - which in fact is based on one of Paganini's violin concertos.
		The paganini etudes are also preceded by earlier versions (composed in 1838), some of which are extremely difficult.
	pianosociety.com /cms/index.php?section=221 (1451 words)

	Twelve Transcendental Etudes, Version 3 - Free MP3
		There are three versions of what is today widely known as the "twelve transcendental etudes".
		Additionally, he provided most of the etudes with titles, and also to some extent adjusted the musical content to fit these titles (such as in the case of the fourth etude - Mazeppa).
		The two last etudes of the 1851 set - Harmonies du soir and Chasse-neige, are often regarded as the artistically most valuable of all Liszt etudes, while the fifth (Feux follets) has become infamous for its tricky double notes.
	www.lisztworks.com /works/S139.shtml (209 words)

	Amazon.ca: Liszt: The Complete Etudes: Music: Franz Liszt,Claudio Arrau,Nikita Magaloff (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		On the second etude, he even eliminates a few measures midway into the song, on the third (la campenella) dont know how to spell it, he changes the intoduction of the theme to octaves, and does a good bit of more improvising half-way through the piece.
		But the fifth is the worst of them all, halfway way through he does something different than what is written with the left hand, and at the end of the piece he messed it up so much that I couldn't even follow the music.
		The Sixth Etude is (like the fourth) no big deal since all he did to this one was add in a few repeats.
	www.amazon.ca /Liszt-Complete-Etudes-Franz/dp/B0000041NE (1126 words)

	Liszt Fiorentino CACD92022 [JW]: Classical CD Reviews- Dec 2002 MusicWeb(UK) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Not content with releasing a long delayed and previously unissued set of the Transcendental Etudes they now continue with the Paganini Etudes and bring the recital to over an hour’s worth of remarkable pianism with the three Petrarch Sonnets and the Two Legéndes.
		His playing of the Paganini Etudes is broadly consonant with his playing on that earlier disc of the Transcendental Etudes; greatly impressive if on a very slightly less majestic level.
		In the G Minor etude, the tremolo study, his powers of structural concentration are immediately apparent.
	www.musicweb.uk.net /classrev/2002/Dec02/Liszt_Fiorentino.htm (808 words)

	Xah: Classical Keyboard Music
		The Transcendental Etudes are said to be the most difficult pieces to play in all piano literature.
		Etudes are study pieces, where the composer explores a particular finger technique or theme.
		Liszt's transcendental etudes are romantic like Chopin's, yet, paradoxically, they are extremely cold like Bach's.
	xahlee.org /ClassicalMusic_dir/classicalMusic.html (588 words)

	Old School Muse Edition 2
		Certainly Liszt was enormously concerned with the piano and its potentialities; the Twelve Transcendental Etudes and Six Etudes after Paganini stand as evidence of his achievements both as virtuoso performer and as composer.
		The genesis of the Douze Etudes d’Exécution transcendante is to be found in a set of 12 studies, Opus 1, written by the 15-year-old student in Paris, dedicated to Mlle Lydie Garrella – the two later sets of etudes bear an inscription to Carl Czerny – and published by Bisselot in Marseilles, 1827.
		In this early set of the etudes one finds not only technical problems isolated and expanded for study, but musical ideas and themes, often crudely handled, which form the basis from which the two later editions derive.
	www.minstrelmusic.co.uk /press/muse02.htm (1059 words)

	The Franz Liszt Page at MIDIWORLD
		A shorter piece using the same thematic content was included in the 1838 Etudes d'Execution Transcendante d'apres Paganini (Etudes for Transcendental Technique after Paganini).
		Also composed in this period were the 12 Grandes Etudes (Liszt later rewrote these into the 12 Transcendental Etudes in 1851).
		In 1851 he published a revised version of the 1838 Etudes d'Execution Transcendante d'apres Paganini, now titled Grandes Etudes de Paganini (Grand etudes after Paganini), the most famous of which is La Campanella, a study in octaves, shakes (trills) and leaps.
	midiworld.com /liszt1.htm (1432 words)

	Amazon.com: Liszt: Etudes (12) D'Execution Transcendante: Music: Franz Liszt,Claudio Arrau (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The Transcendental Etudes, like their name suggests are studies in uplifting and virtuosic piano music.
		The Transcendental Etudes are actually reworkings of pieces Liszt began composing at age fifteen, in the early 1930s.
		Liszt was only in his 20's when he wrote the Transcendental Etudes, which he revised periodically for the next 14 years or so until 1851.
	www.amazon.com /Liszt-Etudes-12-DExecution-Transcendante/dp/B0000040Y5 (1908 words)

	Xah: Classical Keyboard Music
		Etudes D'Execution Transcendante, S139/R2b: I. Preludio in C: Presto 2.
		Etudes D'Execution Transcendante, S139/R2b: V. Feux Follets (Will O' The Wisps), in B Flat...
		Etudes D'Execution Transcendante, S139/R2b: X. Etude in f: Allegro Agitato Molto 11.
	xahlee.org /ClassicalMusic_dir/naxos_liszt.html (231 words)

	INKPOT -- Erno Dohnanyi, Franz Liszt - Works for Solo Piano - Korevaar, Ambrosoli - Ivory Classics and KNS Classical
		One admires them as tones poems; the transcendental virtuosity merely a means to an end.
		There are many excellent recordings of Liszt’s Transcendental Études, notably by Lazar Berman (on Melodiya), Georges Cziffra and Vladimir Ovchinikov (both EMI Classics) and Freddy Kempf (BIS), all of which marry poetry, drama and virtuosity to a degree that makes the listener forget they are studies.
		Young Italian pianist Alessandro Ambrosoli (born 1969), the latest to join the queue, is thankfully is not cowed by the technical and interpretive challenges.
	inkpot.com /classical/dohnanyiliszt.html (1252 words)

	CD Baby: CHRISTOPHER TAYLOR: Etudes d' execution transcendante
		Liszt understood the appeal of virousity, and it was rare for him not to impose great demands on the pianist.
		Within these Twelve Etudes there is such a variety of musical expression, it can be said there is truly something for everyone's varied sensibilities.
		I have heard many performances of the transcendental studies of Liszt, and it would be easy to think that all has been said.
	www.cdbaby.com /taylorc (392 words)

	RECITAL REVIEW: Ukrainian-Style Bravura By Heuwell Tircuit (Dinara Nadzhafova, Ilya Petrov, February 19, 2006)
		Chopin's two volumes of 12 etudes each are among the most fiercely difficult things in piano literature, real knuckle busters.
		She could roar through the stormy first and final “Revolutionary” etudes, bring fairy tinkle to the “Black Key” and “Butterfly,” but turn around into the dark Romantic musings of the E-flat minor Sixth Etude with equal aplomb.
		The more overtly flashy horrors of the C-sharp Minor didn't seem to phase her; it was as though she were breezing through a lesser piece of Erik Satie.
	www.sfcv.org /arts_revs/guzik_2_21_06.php (1212 words)

	Classics Today.com - Your Online Guide to Classical Music (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Nowhere does Vanguard Classics indicate that the Liszt performances gathered for this reissue respectively date from the early 1970s (Russell Sherman's Transcendental Etudes, which first appeared on an Advent cassette in 1974, reissued by Vanguard as a two-LP set in 1977) and from 1968 (Earl Wild's "The Demonic Liszt" recital).
		Russell Sherman has played the Liszt etudes splendidly in concert, where even his stop-start motivic manipulations and penchant for foisting secondary material under the interpretive microscope never detracted from a genuine sense of Liszt's sweeping rhetoric and drama.
		On disc, however, you get all the eccentricities and virtually none of the long line, compounded by tempos that are generally too slow for the music to take wing.
	www.classicstoday.com /review.asp?ReviewNum=7581 (433 words)

	Piano Street: Collection listing
		Franz Liszt - Etudes for Transcendental Tech :
		Etude in G minor no 1 (2383 Kb)
		Etude in E Major (version 2) no 4 (2592 Kb)
	www.pianostreet.com /search/searchcollection.php?id=59 (168 words)

	Amazon.ca: John Ogdon Plays A Liszt Recit: Music: Franz Liszt,John Ogdon (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Etudes D'Execution Transcendante D Apres Paganini, S.140: No.2 in E flat
		Transcendental Etudes (6) after Paganini for piano, S140 No.2 in E flat
		Transcendental Etudes (6) after Paganini for piano, S140 No. 03 in G sharp minor
	www.amazon.ca /John-Ogdon-Plays-Liszt-Recit/dp/B0000067UK (279 words)

	Twelve Trancendental Etudes
		In these Etudes, equal weight is given to musicality as to
		Within these Twelve Etudes there is such a variety of musical expression,
		LD101 - Franz Liszt - LISZT and the CROSS, a lecture recital
	www.lisztdigital.com /discs/ld005_transcendental_etudes.htm (281 words)

	Great Masters: Liszt—His Life and Music
		During these years, Liszt wrote his Etudes en douze exercices, which he would rewrite as the Grand Etudes in 1838 and as the Transcendental Etudes in 1851.
		After his father died in 1827 and a nervous breakdown over the ending of a love affair, he stopped practicing the piano and did not write any music.
		Transcendental Etude No. 10 in F Minor (1851)
	www.teach12.com /ttc/assets/coursedescriptions/758.asp (1190 words)

	Classical Net Review - Liszt - Sonata, Harmonies poétiques, Transcendental Etudes
		Funerailles gets better and better after a slightly matter-of-fact start, and Richter invests all the necessary doom and gloom, sublimity and drive to make this extremely impressive.
		The selection from the Transcendental Etudes from Moscow 1956 (he never played the whole set, but these are all the pieces he did play) are a first release, in atrocious sound but valuable since these are the only 1950's performances of Nos.
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	www.classical.net /music/recs/reviews/p/pal00537a.html (464 words)

	Amazon.com: Schumann: Fantasy; Liszt: Transcendental Etudes: Music: Franz Liszt,Robert Schumann,Evgeny Kissin (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		I am sorry but the technique in the etudes here are beyond any other rendition that I have heard.
		My personal oppinion is that, nobody plays the Etudes better than Evgeny does, and the only person who plays the Fantasie better is Rubinstein.
		My first exposure to the Transcendental Etude #10 was with Andre Watts as recorded on his Liszt album.
	amazon.com /Schumann-Fantasy-Liszt-Transcendental-Etudes/dp/B000003FY4 (1936 words)

	Ovation Magazine review - Dimitris Sgouros plays Liszt
		The seven of the twelve Transcendental Etudes which Sgouros plays also display extraordinary technical prowess and musicality.
		Yet we should not dismiss the original Opus 1 on which they are based: while the various items show the obvious pedagogical influence of Czerny, they also display a brilliant ability to exploit the keyboard from end to end, as well as a natural gift for the sparkling treatment of melodic form.
		The fifth Transcendental Study is entitled Feux follets and gives an impressionistic picture of the elusive 'Will o' the Wisp', built up on rippling sheen of subtle and intricate fingerwork.
	www.sgourosmp3.com /lisztreview.html (1046 words)

	Masterpieces for Solo Piano; Hungarian Rhapsodies- Sonata in B minor; Paganini Etude- Valse oubliee- Transcendental ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Masterpieces for Solo Piano; Hungarian Rhapsodies- Sonata in B minor; Paganini Etude- Valse oubliee- Transcendental Etudes by Franz Liszt at Audio Lunchbox
		Masterpieces for Solo Piano; Hungarian Rhapsodies- Sonata in B minor; Paganini Etude- Valse oubliee- Transcendental Etudes
		Transcendental Etudes- No. 11 in D flat, "Harmonies du soir" (Evening Harmonies)
	www.audiolunchbox.com /album?a=540 (444 words)

	Amazon.com: Complete Etudes for Solo Piano, Series I: Including the Transcendental Etudes (Complete Etudes for Solo ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		This is a valuable book for anyone interested in Liszt and his rare, hard to find, first edition of the famous Transcendental tudes.
		Including the first and second versions of the transcendental etudes (Etudes en Douze Excercises, and Douze Grandes Etudes), which you will not find in any other book, it includes 36 songs on over 250 pages.
		It is an excellent deal, and along with its partner, the second volume, they are a valuable addition to your repertoire.
	www.amazon.com /Complete-Etudes-Solo-Piano-Transcendental/dp/0486258157 (1039 words)

	MusicalSelections.com > Composers > Franz Liszt > Biography
		Also composed in this period were the 12 Transcendental Etudes.
		He fraternized with such noted composers of his time as Frédéric Chopin, Robert Schumann, and Richard Wagner, the last of whom his daughter later married.
		In 1851 he published a revised version of the 1838 Etudes d'Execution Transcendante d'apres Paganini, now titled Grande Etudes de Paganini (Grand etudes after Paganini), the most famous of which is La Campanella, a study in octaves, shakes and jumps.
	www.musicalselections.com /composer-8.html (1344 words)

	Longboat Observer (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Although he has played other composers and recorded many other programs (including Chopin’s preludes and Beethoven’s complete piano sonatas), Sherman has continued to return to the composer who started his career.
		In the mid-’70s, Sherman recorded “Twelve Transcendental Etudes” and received attention worldwide for this recording.
		He re-recorded the études in 1990 and will be playing this version on Tuesday.
	www.longboatobserver.com /showarticle.asp?ai=518 (349 words)

	YouTube - Liszt "12 Transcendental Studies" No. 12
		These are programmatic pieces of the romantic period in every respect and the Etude aspect of them (especially these ones by Liszt) is totally in the background.
		Actually, since these are etudes, they need not be "musical" and yes, the faster and more accurately you play it the better; though not necessarily for the sound.
		Franz Liszt Transcendental Etude no. 10 in F minor
	www.youtube.com /watch?v=lCJJYG_ZIRs (237 words)

	Liszt sheet music
		Solo - 12 Etudes of 14-year-old Liszt, Op.
		Solo - Grandes Etudes de Paganini: No. 1 ’Tremolo’ (Arr.
		Solo - Grandes Etudes de Paganini: ’La Campanella’ (Arr.
	everynote.intissite.com /composer_Liszt.html (674 words)

	CD Spotlight
		It seems that in 1972, Bolet had been asked to record material for an all-Liszt two-LP set but had never finished the project.
		Around 1960, he had already made a single disc's worth of Transcendental Etudes for RCA Victor (LM-2291), a fine example of the earlier Bolet both at his blazing and poetic best, and many of the same features are prominent on this new release.
		If the piano reproduction, slightly thin in the treble, does not compare in singing tone and sonic depth with the richness heard on Bolet's later Decca/London discs, it still is clean and certainly serviceable.
	www.mvdaily.com /articles/2001/09/bolet.htm (456 words)

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