Aaaahhhhh… even da xsdc mofo zightfuckd this a few months ago!
It’s great, but it’s so hard to find a good performance of it. I might be forgetting someone, but I think I settled on Cherkassky’s studio recording in the end.
Yeah that would sound good. Aside from that summer, which was 2013 or so, I haven’t done any serious work at the piano in well over a decade. But I still find that it comes back relatively quickly if I just sit there a few evenings, both tech - to some degree - and previously learned repertoire. At the moment I’m in ruins however (as the Liszt study I posted earlier this year should have convinced you of…), and the Alkan was also seriously hard - much more so than the Godowsky study I worked on simultaneously. It took months to get it to where I felt I could make music out of it, and even then with severe technical issues in those bars I mentioned in the Lib thread.
Tru though, possibly inspired by fattyfatman I would like to do something at the piano again. Just not sure what.
It’s a little too easy going for me? First I’d like that ultra refined sound world of Ravel’s, and then it needs some chewing resistance. There’s sadness at heart of it - IMO - and I think you need to convey that. It’s a piece you process your way through, it can’t be too flowing.