Jason Lyon Music

Tag: Liszt

With One Foot on the Platform…

Feb 13, 2017

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Jason

in e) Rants & Ramblings, g) Classically Inclined

Well, you’ve got to do something when you’re waiting for a train, right? The piece, incidentally, is Liszt’s El Contrabandista, which makes the Mephisto Waltz look like Für Elise… Bот блестящee представление. Sometimes you get amazing surprises on street pianos (and they don’t always come from passing concert pianists).
Playing Presto Assai Can

Oct 13, 2014

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Jason

in a) Soloing Scales & Modes, c) Musicianship, e) Rants & Ramblings, g) Classically Inclined

When I was a fluffy and precocious piano student, before my classical chops succumbed to middle-age spread, I once had a fantastic lesson with a visiting Russian prof that has stayed with me to this day. I was a flashy young buck, and much enamoured of Liszt’s Hungarian Rhapsodies at the time. The one I happened…