Why is it Islamey? Prokovief's Toccata is much harder, I believe.
2007-08-21 18:01:11 · 5 answers · asked by sting 4 in Entertainment & Music ➔ Music ➔ Classical
Who says it's Islamey?
The works of Henri Alkan are considered to be among the most difficult in the repertoir. I have never attempted them, so I cannot say definnitively that they are.
I found Ravel's "Gaspard de la Nuite" to be much more challenging than the Prokofiev.
But difficulties are not always technical. When I played juries in college, way back when Santa was a cubscout, I really started to sweat when I played things like the slow movements to Beethoven sonatas. Technically easy, but musically very daunting. Making those things hang together, getting those long melodies to sing, shaping phrases, voicing and nuance -- that takes so much more concentration than playing some piece where you have programmed all the technical fireworks into your mechanical memory. I still have nightmares about that..
2007-08-22 03:49:20 · answer #1 · answered by glinzek 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Most difficult piano work is Ravel's Gaspard de la nuit.
But piano piece could be the last movement of Chopin's second sonata
2007-08-25 17:37:53 · answer #2 · answered by Alex 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
ehh, I guess if it's important to impress people with how fast and how many notes you can squeeze in a minute, it is way important to figure out which piano piece is the hardest....
2007-08-22 01:26:32 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you find the Prokofiev harder then so be it. Problem?
2007-08-21 20:02:22 · answer #4 · answered by chameleon 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
fur elise was hard for me in the 3rd grade :-)
2007-08-21 18:09:35 · answer #5 · answered by varun - rhapsody 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋