How to Play Liszt's Mephisto Waltz: A Workshop and Performance by Irene Kim

Dr. Irene Kim shares tips, tricks, and cheats for those technically nasty bits in the Mephisto Waltz No. 1 by Franz Liszt while discussing how to infuse a devilish brilliance in one's performance using famed poet Nikolaus Lenau's seductive and salacious imagery from Faust: Dance at the Village Inn.

0:00 Introduction
1:36 Historical Context
6:55 Technical and Programmatic Walk-through: First Waltz
19:35 Seduction section
30:10 Return of the Waltz
51:53 Performance

Recorded live in Pasadena, California for tonebase Piano LIVE

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