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Old 08-30-2011, 09:17 AM   #21 (permalink)
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I've started to listen to piano pieces by Franz Liszt after a conductor mentioned that Liszt composed piano pieces as if the piano were an orchestra, while Chopin composed orchestral pieces as if an orchestra were a piano. This comment made me curious about Liszt.

While randomly listening to some of Liszt's music online, I found this cello - piano version of one of his famous "Liebesträume" piano pieces (Liebesträume - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia). Below is a lovely video of Liebestraum No. 3 with cello and piano, followed by a video of the piece with piano alone, as Liszt originally intended.

Wikipedia says Liszt wrote the three Liebesträume pieces about saintly, romantic, and mature love, with No. 3 inspired by a poem by Ferdinand Freiligrath about mature, unconditional love: "Love as long as you can! The hour will come when you will stand at the grave and mourn" ("O lieb, so lang du lieben kannst"). Depressing but good advice.

Franz Liszt - "Liebestraum No. 3" -- cello and piano
Performed beautifully by Cellist Seeli Toivio and her brother, pianist Kalle Toivio.




Franz Liszt - "Liebestraum No. 3" -- piano
Performed by Justin Lamb (Justin Lamb), who created the following video that he said was played by "me." I thought that was cute and it made me want to learn more about who this "me" is. Justin Lamb's last.fm account says, "Justin Lamb is a composer, pianist, and guitarist. He writes primarily piano works, however, he also writes orchestral works and progressive rock pieces. He is influenced by both classic composers (Bach, Beethoven, Chopin) and by modern composers as well (Philip Glass, John Williams, Carl Orff, Jean Sibelius)."

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