La Campanella On Steroids ? :-) Liszt Rondo Fantastique “El Contrabandista“ Valentina Lisitsa

This is perhaps the MOST unplayable piece of music I ever encountered! La Campanella , or Feux Follets ( both are clearly hinted here) are walk in a park in Liszt, from the period when he honestly thought that piano being a percussive instrument there is no point of making any attempt at legato,and one might as well enjoy frolicking in most head-spinning skips and repeated notes :-) The piece (which is based on Manuel Garcia’s popular song) was titled in the first edition as “Op.5 #2“. F
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