Piano Tutorial | Schubert's Serenade as transcribed by Liszt

This Piano Tutorial is on Liszt's captivating transcription of Schubert's famous Serenade. I initially learned a fairly simple transcription of this piece with my first ever piano teacher as a teenager. However, it was many years later that I discovered this amazing transcription by Franz Liszt.

It certainly presents a set of challenges, however, I think is well worth the effort of learning it.

I have created a set of Free Practice Notes that can be downloaded from the link below (in exchange for your email address):
https://mailchi.mp/3d3f84c4568a/hg190...

Here are some chapter markers to help you move around the video:

00:00 Schubert/Liszt Serenade
00:55 Dividing the piece into Sections
01:52 Strategies for Practising the First Section
04:04 Basic Practice Variants
07:43 Applying Practice Variants to other Segments
11:11 Practising the Second Section
14:04 Specific problem of Arpeggio in Thirds
16:29 Practising the Third Section
20:00 Practising the Ending

The video of Khatia Buniatishvili I feature when discussing hand distribution can be found here. It is a wonderful interpretation of this piece.    • F. Liszt - "Ständchen" Piano Transcription...  

For more thoughts on distributing between the hands, you might find this video helpful :    • Piano Practice | Split the Accompaniment B...  

There are also very different interpretations from the likes of Vladimir Horowitz and Marc André Hamelin amongst others on YouTube.

Another great transcription to learn is the Sgamati Transcription of Melodie from Orpheo ed Euridice.    • Piano Tutorial | Melody by Gluck arr. Sgam...  

For the Arpeggios in double notes, the technical approach was suggested by one of the admins of Piano Learning - The Essence of Technique and Musicality (  / 1614202822257693  )

Fingering suggestions also came from the group The Piano Technique Discussion Group (  / 243421769180517  )

Both are worth joining if you aren't already a member.

EQUIPMENT:
Full details of all equipment used are available on my blog at the address below:
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Filmed on an iPhone 13 Pro - using the Filmic Pro app
Piano Audio captured on a Zoom F6 using a matched pair of Rode NT5 microphones (see my review of the F6 here :    • Record Piano |  5 Reasons why the Zoom F6 ...  )
Voiceover captured on a Rode SmartLav microphone plugged into an iPhone 6S
Video editing done using Lumafusion
Audio editing done using Garageband (voiceover) and Cubase LE Elements (piano).

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