Great Pianists’ Technique: Repeated Notes

A collection of some memorable moments in repeated note-playing. This video can also be seen as a hymn of gratitude to Sebastien Erard for inventing the double escapement. And since Liszt greatly admired Erard’s pianos it will not come as a surprise that most of the examples in this collection are Liszt’s (we should perhaps blame Chopin for using the stiffer Pleyel’s pianos :-) ). It is a really sad fact of life that 15 min. is such a short unit of time and regrettably many other interesting excerpts (like