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Liszt - Vision - Performance and why the thumb is runining your piano tone

Alan Fraser 08:55 02 Jun 2026 Advanced
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About this lesson

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

Credits: Rafael