Liszt Transcendental Etude № 12

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Inescapable darkness and gloom. Each note is a knifing on your heart. It repeats, over and over, with greater intensity and sternness. Forces of nature in execution sans mercy.

啸风暴雨，苦海飞腾。音符如刀，刀刀刻心。非情非念，冷酷始终。

Liszt Transcendental Etude № 12. Played by Jorge Bolet. Buy at amazon

Jorge Bolet is the best interpretater of Liszt's transcendental etudes. Plain precision is the key, emotion be ban'd.

Liszt Transcendental Etude № 12.
Liszt Transcendental Etude № 12. Played by Valentina Lisitsa.
Liszt Transcendental Etude № 12. Played by Miroslav Kultyshev.

For more about this piece, see: Piano Scale Practice; Liszt Transcendental Etude № 12.

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