"Consolations" means the comfort received after a loss. It is to console. This was written after Chopin had passed. You can feel the pain it its beauty.

@khenali25u8

2 жыл бұрын

Really?! Liszt wrote these in honor of Chopin???? If so this gives so much more meaning to these

@ornelasvicente4022

2 жыл бұрын

@@ethandeister6567 ye this guy is speaking facts

@khenali25u8

2 жыл бұрын

@@ethandeister6567 I guess I just never realized all were in honor of him. I should read up more on their friendship. Yes I've noticed the parallel between the nocturne and consolation 3.... such interesting stuff!

@coolliam422

2 жыл бұрын

I thought their friendship weren't that close anymore when Chopin died

@bozzigmupp510

2 жыл бұрын

@@coolliam422 well ye cuz he dead

I love this side of Liszt - no impossibly difficult and virtuosic passages or flashy bravura, just simple harmonic and melodic beauty.

@Symbioticism

4 жыл бұрын

17:05

@sammiddleton5824

4 жыл бұрын

@@Symbioticism I think my point still remains. Unlike some of his other piano works like the Transcendental Etudes or the Hungarian Rhapsodies which are built on virtuosity and bravura, the Consolations are remarkably 'simple' in comparison. I guess my original point was there's far more emphasis on the melody and having a 'song-like' quality about them.

@Symbioticism

4 жыл бұрын

@@sammiddleton5824 Yes, I got your point, I was just being snarky as I read your comment just as I heard that little flourish!

@jekk23

4 жыл бұрын

Sam Middleton I feel and think the same. There is a tranquility and reflection in these that is as vivid and gracious as his famously bravura pieces.

@SCRIABINIST

4 жыл бұрын

even though it still isn't easy but it isn't too hard

I am so so Glad my dad told me about this music.

@ludwigvanbachmaninoff1981

3 жыл бұрын

You have a good dad, sir!

The 4th piece has a star above it because the melody is based on one by Maria Pawlowna (Tsar Nicholas I’s sister if I remember rightly) who he was at the time giving composition lessons to. The star is in the shape of the Order of the White Falcon. Maria Pawlowna was one of Liszt’s supporters during his life in Weimar (1848 - 1861) and she bought the Altenburg (the house Liszt was living in) and let him live there free of charge. (Based on my knowledge gathered from Alan Walker’s three volume biography on Franz Liszt)

@TheModicaLiszt

4 жыл бұрын

Interesting, thank you for sharing. I knew that the theme was from Pawlowna, but didn’t know that to be the reason for the star.

@Balakirev_

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks a lot for the information!!

@user-fu7zf4ck9z

2 жыл бұрын

The melody is also used in the Sonata in b minor. The star is a star of David and all Consolations except for No. 3 and 4 are written in E-Major, a key Liszt always associated with faith.

im learning no2 right now. its honestly the most beautiful imo. so timeless and immediately emotional. I am a huge Chopin guy but by God, Liszt was truly a transcended composer. I genuinely don't know if Chopin truly touched his genius, I can see why Liszt was almost a supernatural force to Chopin. In my opinion its not Hungarian Rhapsody 2 or the Liebestraumes that technically outshine Chopin, its the sheer beauty of Liszts use of the (then really new) sustain pedal as intuitively as he used it in these 6 pieces - bringing such profound emotion to the play. The world as it is in 2020, I cannot describe how happy I am that at one point in our history, humanity achieved *this*.

@lisztomaniac2593

3 жыл бұрын

By the time Liszt wrote this pieces, pedal wasn’t a new thing lmao

@mustysheep3977

3 жыл бұрын

@@lisztomaniac2593 lmao

@tonyhdz1379

3 жыл бұрын

Indeed, the pedal itself wasn’t new when Chopin and Liszt were around, but it sure got a whole new technical development (mainly by Chopin) thus, revolutionizing the sound capabilities that the piano could now offer

@lisztomaniac2593

3 жыл бұрын

@@tonyhdz1379 There was always a especific way of utilizing the pedal, and Liszt and Chopin didn’t use it to bring new sound capabilities (the usage of pedal to bring new “colors” to the music is something that would happen later, in Impressionism). But they did write music that demanded a more complex usage of the pedal, though.

@youtubecommenter2

2 жыл бұрын

I do have to disagree with you, sir. Liszt definitely transcended Chopin in terms of technicality, but Chopin takes the first place for me when it comes to writing. Liszt had some genius compositions (just take the Consolation no 3, or Un Sospiro for example) but none quite so piercing to my soul as Chopin (like his Nocturne op 9 no 1, or Etude op 10 no 3). But, of course, there is no point in debating taste, and I respect your opinion as a fellow fan of these two brilliant conposers.

no 3 has actually brought tears to my eyes, what a beautiful rendition.

@PaulaIsabelSantos

3 жыл бұрын

So true

I listened to these non stop on the day of high school graduation thinking how bittersweet the feeling was. It's been almost a month since then and I'm crying.

@dunkleosteus430

11 күн бұрын

I listened to it on the last day of sophomore year. Bittersweet indeed.

1. 00:00 2. 1:36 3. 4:50 4. 10:12 5. 13:28 6. 15:37 😊

@augustinrotar1095

4 жыл бұрын

Mulțumim Bianca!🙂

@ParisLopezMarron

4 жыл бұрын

00:00 does not work, try 00:01

@babyskunkcat

4 жыл бұрын

Try again dumbass.

@babyskunkcat

4 жыл бұрын

I can say what I want.

@AndreiAnghelLiszt

4 жыл бұрын

Hello there fellow Lisztomâni 😆

As a drummer and mathematician before learning piano, trying to learn consolation no. 3 with 12 quavers in one bar just shut my brain down hahaha. I'm familiar with polyrhythms but the lack of notation of triplets nearly gave me a panic attack lol. What a beautiful piece it is though.

@ethandeister6567

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah, sheet music can be quite tricky sometimes. I tried learning Chopin's Nocturne in F major and the middle section has 18 16th notes in a 3/4 meter, 6 more than expected. It turns out that they're supposed to be sextuplets, I had been playing the piece at two thirds the proper speed, which is a lot.

@iMacxXuserXx485

Жыл бұрын

I guess he really doesn't want the triplet notation there since it's easier to look at and more elegant without it.

@user-fq7uh3wq1f

Жыл бұрын

It's pretty common with omitting numbers. Rachmaninoff does this A LOT too. At least I understand Rachmaninoff since the sheet music is already messy and very difficult to read without those numbers. There's no space to even write those.

Ive been listening to this on my winter walks recently. Fits so perfectly with nature and frost ❤

Havent heard smoother sound and touch on piano in many years.Good job to pianist its really pleasure to listen to this masterpieces performed with such sound.

these are some of the most beautiful pieces of music i have ever heard, particularly the second one

In the Sixth Consolation versions, the listener can feel the individual sound of each note because it is written to make the sound smooth, stylised, simple, melodic and harmonious. For the pianist to perform Liszt Consolations has to have the relaxed emotion to perform these works, it is not only on skill notes and tempo.

My favourite is the first. The simple but genious harmonies in my favourite two octaves of the piano. Just magic

@spencerbell8386

Жыл бұрын

Same. I love the drone on the top and the lush, changing chords on the bottom.

No. 3 is sooo beautiful.

The third consolation is so peaceful and so consoling. Thank you for uploading this.

The sixth consolation is honestly like a shot of morphine.

@lukasmiller486

4 жыл бұрын

Okay...care to expound?

@putatorridayanez7753

3 жыл бұрын

@@lukasmiller486 callao pajarrakus

@paolo6219

3 жыл бұрын

its amazing

@manu.77_fr

2 жыл бұрын

Juste wow

@manu.77_fr

2 жыл бұрын

I am in love with Liszt

I could never find music more able to soothe and heal my soul than this kind!

2nd is my all time favorite. I love the 6th one a lot too.

my grandmother got me a book of these consolations for Christmas. At first, I didn't see why she got me a generally simple book, but then I realized the beauty of it and how it made me feel amazing while playing. I'm currently learning number 2 but just the first song gave me a sense of peace and wonder. Truly a beautiful side of liszt

@noah829

3 жыл бұрын

I received a similar gift in Chopin's collection of preludes, which was quite nice. How is your progress on the consolations?

i knew 2 and 3, but i think 6 is my favorite honestly! just upon hearing it for the first time. something lovely and light about the rh chords and lh melody.

@ryanlo2923

3 жыл бұрын

I think 6 is actually incredibly underrated compared to 2 and 3. It's such a beautiful piece that deserves just as much attention as the others. I'm currently learning the 6th consolation and while I is a bit more difficult than the others, it is such a nice piece to play

@mikaschmidt2110

2 жыл бұрын

Yes number 6 for me is undoubtedly the most stunning

Absolutely love the first one.

I'm going to learn this, got the music, all I need now is the magic...

@corebite

4 жыл бұрын

No, all you need is practice

@ibrahimkante6022

4 жыл бұрын

@@corebite Approximatively .... 40 hours a day

@ayhamshaheed7740

4 жыл бұрын

ib kante in all honesty though, technically speaking these aren’t that difficult

@thiagonascimento5203

3 жыл бұрын

@@ibrahimkante6022 2set?

They are all just breath-taking...

i am weeping hard now,I,m learning this,best version yet

2:58 I love here.

@NoahJohnson1810

7 жыл бұрын

Me too!

@NoahJohnson1810

7 жыл бұрын

Me too!!!

@SuperCochondInde

4 жыл бұрын

Me too!!!!

@roberacevedo8232

3 жыл бұрын

Me too!!!!!

@kofiLjunggren

3 жыл бұрын

Me too!!!!!!

she plays insanely well

Simply Awesome. For me the best, epic piece of classical music ever made

The 6th one is devilishly hard. Quite a stark contrast (technically) to the rest of the set. I still sense a strong emotional connection between it and the rest of the set though.

@tobiaslim4709

3 жыл бұрын

i really want to learn it....it’s so beautiful

@user-fu7zf4ck9z

2 жыл бұрын

The early versions of these pieces are even more technically demanding than the official No. 6. The early version of No. 3 is an entirely different piece (which eventually became the 1st Hungarian Rhapsody, so that shows you how difficult it was) that got replaced completely. For some reason, Liszt decided not to change too much in the final Consolation.

@user-fq7uh3wq1f

Жыл бұрын

I wouldn't say No. 6 is 'devilishly' difficult. It is pretty difficult compared to the rest of the Consolations, but easy 'as a Liszt piece'. Just add arpeggios to both-hand leaps. That cadenza might be tricky though. Still much easier than Liszt's Liebestraum No. 3.

@owondrousmachine

Ай бұрын

It’s pretty easy tbh, don’t be fooled by how it sounds

Thank you for all your work, sir. Your taste for Liszt and for others is simply sublime.

The keys of consolation: E major and Db major!

@owenparsons2064

3 жыл бұрын

teddy toto the two best keys for piano😎

Everyone likes 3 so much, but 4 is just fantastic. The ending is so royal. Listen to 12:38

@SCRIABINIST

4 жыл бұрын

I like 2 a lot

Gracias. Sire mucho para aprendizaje. Gracias!

No. 5 my favorite!

Wirklich wunderbar gespielt!

@r0mmm

4 жыл бұрын

Da kann ich wirklich nur zustimmen!

6 is actually my favourite

How wonderful performance!!!👏🎹 Consolation No. 3 makes me cry... A LOT!!! 😭

Enlevo maravilhoso para a alma!!

Superb performances, could hardly be bettered, just personal taste. The more famous consolation in D flat is amazing at that slow tempo..I.love what Krystian does with these pieces

@orlandocfi

3 ай бұрын

It’s Lilya Zilberstein, not Krystian Zimerman.

I like your explanations.

wonderful music

Usually I can't stand Liszt, but this is heavenly !

beautiful!

진짜 6곡 다 너무좋다.....ㄷㄷ

beautiful pieces

Very consoling, indeed!

No. 4 is my personal favorite. It reminds me of a Bach chorale

lovely

The original no 3 was later transformed to the first part of the 1st Hungarian Rhapsody. The coda ín No 6 comes from a theme in an unpublished piece which was later reworked as the Premier Ballade.

@leoruitol7211

7 ай бұрын

Wow

Bellísimo !!!!!!

14:55 reminds me of Tu che a dio spiegasti l'ali from Lucia di Lammermoor

Liszt is difinitely the best😂👏👏👏👏👌👌

@Inubiz

3 жыл бұрын

I've been a pianist since 4yrs old. Growing up everybody likes Chopin. The older I got, the more I knew that it was Liszt and not Chopin the bigger genius of the two. Not taking anything away from Chopin, but it was Liszt that contributed more to the evolution of music and gave birth to a type of Impressionism that followed well after his death which later gave birth to the likes of Debussy and ravel.

I know #3 is marked lento but I do prefer it a bit more andante.... the Horowitz interpretation is by far my favorite. I listen to it a couple of times a month.... broken record syndrome :)

@Joe1935429

4 жыл бұрын

I agree! I have always enjoyed #6 played by Horowitz as well. It is not on KZread.

@ayhamshaheed7740

4 жыл бұрын

Joe Gallagher where can I hear it if it’s not on KZread?

@Joe1935429

4 жыл бұрын

@@ayhamshaheed7740 I don't know. He played it at a recital as an encore request, which was not his habit, many years ago. The performance was recorded, but I don't think it is available anywhere

@ayhamshaheed7740

4 жыл бұрын

Joe Gallagher oh right. Where did you / the original commenter hear it then?

@Slayer0733

4 жыл бұрын

Ayham Shaheed kzread.info/dash/bejne/gYKLxqWvdqvUpaQ.html it’s here!

Thank you, Liszt!

Not sure if its a 'consolation' but rather the feeling of being under the influence of morphine. Love you Liszt.

@ladygabes5558

4 жыл бұрын

This music tells me it's going to be alright

@lefinlay

4 жыл бұрын

You could say... consoling?

Consolation 2😍

No.2 is the most beautiful 3:12 💞💞💞

Amo a Frnzs Lizst.

Modulating by a third is a romantic trick, started with Beethoven... :D

No 1 and no 3 are amazing

@sarahdean2239

Жыл бұрын

I know it’s so good :)

@graydusk1039

10 ай бұрын

No 2,5,6 are my favs

I'm not the only one who hears the Andante of Beethoven's Sonata No. 30 in the first piece, am I?

Удивительно хороши тишина волшебная

I come back here every time I wanted to escape

@camiller4100

2 жыл бұрын

Update: tomorrow is our national election, i am scared for my future. i risked debates to my elder relatives as to why they are voting to an openly corrupt official. i can't sleep but i hope this one will provide me comfort till dawn

in my headcanon Reger lifted his fuga over bach from the beginning of #5 CMV

The fifth has that most incredible melody

@Nai61a

8 ай бұрын

It's lovely, but don't you think it is just too fast in this performance? The yearning, rising dotted figure seems to me to suggest something more contemplative.

Perfact

liked that

LISZT. INFINITO. SUAS. ONDAS. SONORAS. PERFEITAS. REPERCUTEM...REPERCUTEM...REPERCUTEM.............

4:20 who else hears charlie brown chords?

This came from an amazing album by Zilberstein on Deutsche Grammophon, but i can't seem to find it now.... anyone knows how to get it again?

I am going to learn n.1 next year.

Que buena interpretación.Gracias

She nailed *everything* here. No doubts about this being the finest recording of Liszt's S. 172. Wouldn't mind this [2:56] being a tad slower though...

@izrahiasdominguez8377

Жыл бұрын

Use the playback speed feature from KZread.

3rd and 6th

practicing the first one rn, its so beautiful. its not exactly hard its just hard to get fluidly

@GUILLOM

2 жыл бұрын

Hi

@paolo6219

2 жыл бұрын

@@GUILLOM GUILLOM

La que estába buecando gracias. 👆

Excellent but the in the no.3 should wait a little bit longer in some moments

The second Consolation is the closest Liszt came to sounding like Grieg.

@thenotsookayguy

2 жыл бұрын

@@guii8993 and?

@MrDiscoDragon

2 жыл бұрын

@@guii8993 🤓

Been working on 1,2,3,4 ... 2 remains

THis description, where did you get it from? Did you write it yourself?

@AshishXiangyiKumar

8 жыл бұрын

with some very specific exceptions, I write all the descriptions.

@tomasborralho

7 жыл бұрын

How do you know it is consciously maximalist?

@123ipeeonyou4

7 жыл бұрын

Maybe he studies music.

@SpaghettiToaster

7 жыл бұрын

It sounds like it is

@theophilephanoune9176

7 жыл бұрын

He doesn't "know" it, he was just giving his outlook.

6:54 making a mark

Little critics: 5:57 and 6:10 - no, there are dots for a reason. Portato!

@Eliza-yd7fi

3 жыл бұрын

610 is slurred though

What a rich and beautiful performance. What is the pianist's first name?

@TiticatFollies

7 жыл бұрын

Thank you!

@NoahJohnson1810

7 жыл бұрын

Lilya

@NoahJohnson1810

7 жыл бұрын

Great pianist btw, check out her recording of Chopin's first piano sonata.

Liszt Ferenc:Vigasztalások 1.E-dúr (Andante con moto) 00:00 2.E-dúr (Andantino) 01:36 3.Desz-dúr (Lento placido) 04:50 4.Desz-dúr (Quasi adagio) 10:12 5.E-dúr (Andantino) 13:28 6.E-dúr (Allegretto sempre cantabile) 15:37 Lilya Zilberstein-zongora

@davidrehak3539

4 жыл бұрын

Köszönöm az értékelést

Maybe it’s inspired by Chopin’s one-paged pieces?

4:50 コンソレーション第3番

4:37

At 4:50; melody begins that resembles Chopin nocturne Opus 27 no. 2. Same key signature and everything. A music student told me Franz Liszt slept with Chopin's wife. What in the heck?

@opustravels3659

8 жыл бұрын

Chopin never had a wife

@Pardock97

7 жыл бұрын

I know right, and I love it (resembling Chopin's Opus 27 No.2)

@randyclar747

7 жыл бұрын

Pardock You do notice the similarities; or are you being non-serious? I noticed a pattern in left hand that almost is in mirror image of What Liszt wrote.

@randyclar747

7 жыл бұрын

OpusTravels Ok: If it wasn't Chopin's Wife Liszt played around with; possibly Chopin's girlfriend? Why would a music student tell me this?

@Pardock97

7 жыл бұрын

And I notice the similarity. But what I really like is the resemblance some seconds later with Liszt's own Liebestraum

Thank You for posting this. It's the first time ever heard it, and it falls so gently well after the tempest of election, that has left half of us in free-fall. I feel as bad as when JFK was assaninated. This wind bears no goodwill so a sentimental adieu to my country. adieu, this piece expresses my profound sentiments.

위안 6곡 다 있으니 좋당

Digo: sirve

I don't think I could be more against how Consolation II was played. But I guess that's a compliment to the pianist.

Easiest Liszt pieces. Except the 6th.

16:55

2:56

@kasajizo8963

Жыл бұрын

Lol why do I see you everywhere

E major-key of Virgin Mary.

Dflat major may even have been celestial to Liszt, very rarely used by Liszt. In old age many pieces end on a Csharp.

Are they difficult to play?

@die_schlechtere_Milch

7 жыл бұрын

thank you

@BethRockNRoll

7 жыл бұрын

Simon Mergner In my opinion the second one is also pretty difficult, maybe not us much as the last one though. I'm going to be preparing all of them in a couple months, and I'm sure they're going to be such a beautiful and fascitating experience.

@die_schlechtere_Milch

7 жыл бұрын

the first is very beautiful. for a long time I did not even know how lyrical Liszt's writing can be.

@BethRockNRoll

7 жыл бұрын

Yes! It is. I couldn't imagine that before either. I had heard Liebestraum, for example, which is also very lyrical, but somehow I thought this type of lyricism was very, very extrange in Liszt's work. Then I disovered the Consolations, or even Petrarch Sonets (which I find very lyrical too), and they blew my mind. They are incredibly beautiful.

@fabriziopelli4577

7 жыл бұрын

Simon Mergner now i'm learning the second and i can play the first, the second and the 4rth... They are difficult in the expression... The second is a masterpiece and it's hard in some point but is very funny to play

I just can't picture Liszt playing these. lol

@albertomartin4812

8 жыл бұрын

The mature Liszt absolutely. Go listen Wiegenlied and Nuages Gris, you'll be shocked. :D

Prefer the interpretation of Sergio Fiorentino.

@fabriziopelli4577

7 жыл бұрын

teddy toto absolutely better...they are more rich and passional... Expecially the 6th

@Johannes_Brahms65

4 жыл бұрын

This pianist sings every note and is totally conscious of her interpretation. Perfect timing. Deeply felt. A rarity. Thanks!