The Liszt Sonata 4+

Witness a piano masterpiece

NatureGuides Ltd.

Designed for iPad

    • 5.0 • 10 Ratings
    • $14.99

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Description

Stephen Hough performs one of the most complex pieces of piano music ever written, and helps you uncover its subtle elegance with a multi-perspective performance and the innovative NoteFall visualisation.

“It‘s like a personal guided tour of a great castle, keys to every room, access to every secret.” – Stephen Hough

Features of The Liszt Sonata include:

• Witness a masterpiece: Hough’s virtuoso performance has been exquisitely captured on multiple cameras, allowing the music to be experienced from any perspective.

• The NoteFall: A hypnotic graphical visualisation of the music highlights the intricacy and complexity of the piece and the subtleties of its interpretation.

• Uncover the backstory: Delve into the soap opera that was Liszt’s life, explore the history and structure of the piece, and learn about the interplay of motives and themes that make the Piano Sonata such an important work.

Our classical music apps – The Orchestra, Beethoven’s 9th Symphony and The Liszt Sonata – have won the Royal Philharmonic Society’s Music Award for Creative Communication.

If you enjoy The Liszt Sonata, don’t forget to share the app, rate it and leave a review.

What’s New

Version 1.0.10

Optimisations for iOS 12

Ratings and Reviews

5.0 out of 5
10 Ratings

10 Ratings

peterwg ,

Fabulous performance beautifully presented

This is great fun. It's wonderful to watch the details of a virtuoso performance of a spectacular Liszt sonata by Stephen Hough. Still more interesting to have his articulate, revealing commentary on the piece and on technique. Beautifully done. The B Min Sonata is a brilliant choice: just the right length for the presentation but also a deeply affecting and varied piece of virtuosic piano. Hough and Liszt is a combination that rewards over and over (I've watched this movie, or parts of it, a dozen times yet it still has surprises and lessons for me).

chris1_au ,

Outstanding

An engaging way to discover and rediscover one of humanity's most brilliant musical creations.
Besides the elegant app interface and extensive and interesting background material, this is a brilliant performance of the sonata — almost as fun to watch as it is exciting to listen to.
The spoken commentary is useful, although a little loud (it would be nice to be able to adjust the relative volume). Luckily it also works well displayed as captions.
The synchronisation of the audio to the musical notation is near perfect, which makes it a pleasure to 'read' along while listening.
The audio plays well through AirPlay (sounds great on B&W speakers).
All up this is a great way to experience great musical artworks — a much deeper experience than just listening to a CD. It would be lovely to see the catalogue of works expanded over time.

stng ,

Awesomely irresponsible of Touch Press

Dear Touch Press

What are you thinking?! After seducing me with 'The Orchestra' and 'Beethoven's 9th Symphony', you've produced this new temptation. Don't you know I have a mortgage to pay and a family to spend time with. It's downright wrong of you to peddle these sorts of addictive substances to the innocent and the naive. Who knows, next you'll be producing Chopin's Etudes or Mozart's Requiem…

…please…

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Supports

  • Family Sharing

    Up to six family members can use this app with Family Sharing enabled.

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