Liszt - Transcendental etudes

A series on transcendetal etudes from a series of lessons Alan gave to his student Rafael

3 episodes 29:27 Advanced Ongoing

Episodes

1 Liszt - Vision - Performance and why the thumb is runining your piano tone Think softening your thumb makes impressionist passages sound more delicate? Think again. In this lesson, we dig into measures 32–33 and discover how a powerful, accented thumb launch is the secret to fluid, marble-like tone, not the enemy of it 08:55
2 Achieving virtuosity and tone color Alan and Rafael critique the performance, focusing on physical techniques like thumb activation, correcting rhythmic errors, and prioritizing dark, expressive tone coloring over sheer volume 11:04
3 Alan's vision - darkness, delirium, and the fight for ascendancy Alan breaks down how to make music feel disorienting, tense, and emotionally unsettling 09:28

Your teacher

Alan Fraser

Born in Montreal in 1955 Alan Fraser studied piano but also delved into composition, cello, classical singing and had several stints as a pop musician. Alan’s main pianistic influence was the pioneering research of Phil Cohen who studied alongside Ronald Turini, Andre Laplante and Janina Fialkowska with Yvonne Hubert, who had been Cortot‘s assistant in Paris. Alan spent several years with Cohen after an apprenticeship with two former Cohen students, Alan Belkin and Lauretta Milkman.