Lugansky - Liszt, Transcendental Étude No. 10

Franz Liszt (1811 – 1886) Transcendental Études, S139 (1852) No. 10 in F minor. Allegro Agitato Molto. Nikolai Lugansky, 2012 From Sverdlovsk Philharmonic “[…] The history of the Transcendental Studies is tolerably well known, but may be briefly recapitulated here. In 1826, not yet fifteen years of age, the young prodigy published the first installment of what promised to be an ‘Étude en 48 exercises’ in which Liszt intended to run twice through all the keys in the pattern C major, A minor, F major, D minor, etc, and the volume included twelve short studies of considerable flair, somewhat under the influence of his teacher Czerny but showing much melodic invention and technical skill. In 1837, at the height of his Glanzperiode, Liszt took these little pieces and developed a formidable set of studies which, as Schumann noted in his laudatory review, were probably too difficult for anyone other than Liszt to play musically. The essential musical poetry of the pieces was rescued by L