Word: hexameron
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...Fuocoso molto energico; the slender Chopin added an exquisite largo. At last, in his finale, Liszt wittily and skillfully parodied the styles of the others-except Czerny and Chopin, whom he respected too much. The audience buzzed with excitement. Tickled, Liszt later published the whole thing with the name Hexameron, often played it on his own programs...
This week Hexameron had one of its few hearings since Liszt's death in 1886. In London's His Majesty's Theater, brilliant Pianist Claudio Arrau (a onetime pupil of Liszt's pupil, Martin Krause) marched alone to the single piano in center stage. Then, playing with mixed high purpose and good humor, heaving and hammering, sighing and scintillating, he re-created for a moment some of the atmosphere of the Princess Belgiojoso's 1837 soiree...
...consensus: Hexameron was a six-layer cake that would never do for a steady diet, but it was fun to take once in a while...
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