Re: Hardest piece ever

    
Re: Hardest piece ever    04:56 on Saturday, February 18, 2006          

piano_newbie
(1 point)
Posted by piano_newbie

La Campanella by Franz Liszt or Jeux d`Eux by Ravel i think is a hard piece but its not the hardest... if anyone ahs a really really really ahrd piece can the e-mail it to me? im getting really bored... im only 13 and i cant find a difficult piece...


Re: Hardest piece ever    01:33 on Thursday, March 2, 2006          

EmmDoubleEw
(1 point)
Posted by EmmDoubleEw

13 and bored?

How about Godowsky Passacaglia. Even Vladimir Horowitz gave up on it, stating that it would require not 2 but 6 hands to perform. That should calm your ego.

Plus, you're obviously lying, and not fooling anyone. There is no way you are bored at 13. I bet you couldn't play a Liszt Transcendental etude correctly if you had a year to learn it.


Re: Hardest piece ever    15:05 on Thursday, March 2, 2006          

Mattyb
(2 points)
Posted by Mattyb

Ok, here's some pieces I think are extremely Hard:

Liszt - Grand Galop
- Hungarian Rhapsody No. 6
- Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2 (Volodos Transcription)
- La Campanella No. 3 (Hamelin's Transcription)

Mozart - Turkish March (Volodos again)

Rimsky Korsakov - Bumble Bee (Cziffra Transcription)

Godowsky - Studies on Chopins Etudes

Chopin - Ballade No. 4 in F minor

Rachmaninoff - Piano concerto No. 2


Re: Hardest piece ever    17:24 on Tuesday, March 28, 2006          

JesusFreak78
(1 point)
Posted by JesusFreak78

one of the hardest pieces in the world is the petrouchka by stravinsky, see, igor stravinsky wrote a ballet, and then put it onto the music for the piano
also, the third rachmaninoff concerto is extremely difficult
hey, and also the 2nd sonata by rachmaninoff is extremely long, and difficult,
by the way, God bless you, i'd like to know if you're a Christian, for Jesus saved my life and He can save yours too, God bless ya bye


Re: Hardest piece ever    14:42 on Sunday, April 2, 2006          

BeginDreamSequen
ce

I'd say Prelude in B Flat Major, op. 23 no. 2 by Rachmaninoff. I haven't seen the sheet music, but from listening to it a few times I know it would present a definite challenge.


Re: Hardest piece ever    17:15 on Tuesday, April 4, 2006          

Mattyb
(2 points)
Posted by Mattyb

Check out Leonardo Balada's Transparency of Chopin's first Ballade.


Re: Hardest piece ever    18:38 on Wednesday, April 19, 2006          

piandork0813
(1 point)
Posted by piandork0813

some of the most challenging pieces are probably:

Bachs Toccata and fugue in D Minor (Carl Tausig or Ferruccio Busoni arrangments) both are very difficult,

Franz Liszt transcriptions of Beethovens symphonies, most are very difficult, but i found the most trouble with the 4th movement in No.5

Rachmaninoff op.23 prelude no.9 played up to tempo

Those are the only ones I can think of right now.


Re: Hardest piece ever    12:33 on Sunday, April 23, 2006          

Holmes6448
(2 points)
Posted by Holmes6448

Hope it hasn't been mentioned before but I'm convinced that Max Reger's variations and fugue on a theme by Bach (Op. 81) is the hardest piece. It makes the Rach 3 look like something from Anna Magdalenas notebook. Its available at the sheetmusicarchive if anyone wants to have a look. His intermezzos are fairly trick as well.


Re: Hardest piece ever    07:06 on Friday, May 5, 2006          

spheor
(7 points)
Posted by spheor

You're cocky - if you are serious (and so fortunate), may I suggest:
La camapanella (I have sheet music)
Hungarian Rhapsody 2 (I have sheet music)
Rachmaninoff's Concertos
Other Liszt pieces
Beethoven Moonlight 3 (played well)
Appasioanata

Perhaps you could take up my request to have someone play and record the "Voix du ciel" for me. Should be a doddle for you!

Rgds


Re: Hardest piece ever    04:10 on Saturday, May 6, 2006          

gokay
(1 point)
Posted by gokay

I have been playing for a long time and I am classically trained. When everything seemed easy to me, I changed the genre and time signature. It spiced thing a little bit for a while. If you are playing classical songs, find a blues piece or new age and it will challenge you for a while. Also, changing the time signature works, it gets harder to keep track of time unless you have played a lot of pieces with a specific time signature.


Re: Hardest piece ever    01:18 on Monday, May 8, 2006          

oboedude888
(381 points)
Posted by oboedude888

Jst being able 2 spell Tachovski's name rght is hrd. Im only grd 4 but i think his piano concerto would b gd. I thnk that cld b 1 of the hardest


Re: Hardest piece ever    16:29 on Sunday, June 4, 2006          

russian
(5 points)
Posted by russian

do any of you comrades work in a conservatory or a school of music?


Re: Hardest piece ever    02:26 on Monday, June 5, 2006          

setalpgninnpseki
l

Hungarian Rhapsody #2 in C#minor - Franz Liszt

Fantasie Impromptu - Chopin

The Chopin Balade in A flat is pretty rough, I forget which one.

If you really want a piece that will take a very long time to learn, try the Hungarian Rhapsody (or anything by Liszt for that matter, but Hungarian Rhapsody #2 is just so much fun).


Re: Hardest piece ever    19:56 on Monday, June 5, 2006          

russian
(5 points)
Posted by russian

WHEN YOU START LOOKING FOR THE HARDEST PIANO PIECES EVER BECAUSE YOU ARE BORED, I THINK ITS TIME YOU SWITCHED TO CONSTRUCTION!!!!!!!!!!!!


Re: Hardest piece ever    07:11 on Friday, June 9, 2006          

sumwon
(4 points)
Posted by sumwon

is fantasie impromptu hard?


   








This forum: Older: The thumb over method when doing scales. Trying to understand this...
 Newer: Sticky Notes