Tag Archives: Liszt

Piano paraphrase

Posted on January 31, 2023 by Vassilis Lambropoulos

What is a piano paraphrase?  Part of its seductive fluidity is that it is not a transcription (faithful rewriting), an arrangement, a piano reduction, a fantasy, a souvenir, or reminiscences yet it may contain elements of all of them. Furthermore, … Continue reading →

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Participatory listening

Posted on January 30, 2023 by Vassilis Lambropoulos

I call “participatory” the creative listening where we are invited to contribute actively to our musical experience as opposed to sit back and absorb it.  In participatory listening we are expected to play an energetic role in the creation of … Continue reading →

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Listening to classical cover versions

Posted on February 20, 2021 by Vassilis Lambropoulos

I read with special interest an interview that Benjamin Grosvenor gave recently on playing the Liszt sonata.  Instead of analyzing the work itself or placing it in the history of classical music, the 28-year-old pianist compared his recent recording to … Continue reading →

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Franz Liszt’s services to artistic sacralization

Posted on February 23, 2017 by Vassilis Lambropoulos

Franz Liszt (1811-86) is a pivotal cultural figure in that the entire formation of classical music as a public institution can be traced just through his career, an inescapably central nexus in the sacralization of high art. Everything that has … Continue reading →

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