Not what I wanted.😕
I thought it was going to teach you how to play the song all you do is listen to the song for $10.00 when you could do it for free on YouTube.
Fantastic
I love this app! Everything about it is great. I wish they would make more!
Fantastic!
This is the most wonderful app. There is nothing else quite like it. But could we please have another! The Diabelli variations of The Hammarklavier Sonata would be great!
Liszt Sonata
An amazing, in depth look at the Liszt piano sonata in b minor, fantastically performed and analyzed by the phenomenal Stephen Hough.
I hope that there will be more of these to come! Mozart, Beethoven, Chopin... the list goes on.
I can’t say enough great things about Mr. Hough. This man is a genius.
Thank you so much for this!
I hope that there will be more of these to come! Mozart, Beethoven, Chopin... the list goes on.
I can’t say enough great things about Mr. Hough. This man is a genius.
Thank you so much for this!
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Simply the best thing on the AppStore
I have spent more time in this app than any other on my iPad. An absolutely peerless piece of work celebrating two geniuses, one from centuries past and one from the present day. I just wish touchstone would make more like this.
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).
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Well worth the price, and then some...
A beautiful piece, performed beautifully, and accompanied with a wealth of analysis that makes me want to frequently replay the performance and commentary. I have all the classical apps from this publisher and this one is my favorite. Well done Touchpress!
Not convinced
This performance strikes me as having too much focus on beats in a bar rather than overall movement and general direction. The scrolling of the score is not smooth and becomes a distraction. the overall concept is interesting.
Decent overall
As a pianist, this app is a valuable tool and has helped me in learning this piece. However, I was disappointed at the lack of speed throughout the piece—Martha Argerich, in comparison, plays it in just over 25 minutes instead of the 31 minutes this app takes—and the views of the performer's face throughout the piece. While I recognize that it's important for a piece to have character, to project emotions, I believe it's a waste of space to include half an hour of an old man making various facial expressions.
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Fantastic! Sublime!
I haven't come across a Touch Press app yet that I haven't adored and this is no exception. In the Performance area you are taken through the entire thrill-ride of the sonata, following along with the score, the actual playing and the emotion of the piece - all at the same time. All the background sections are beautifully put together. It's the whole package! An app like this is all the justification I need for owning an iPad in the first place. Absolutely superb!
So what am I waiting for next from Touch Press? A performance of The Rite Of Spring conducted by Simon Rattle with an option to watch the ballet performed by the Alvin Ailey Dance Company. There you go - the gauntlet has been thrown!!!!
So what am I waiting for next from Touch Press? A performance of The Rite Of Spring conducted by Simon Rattle with an option to watch the ballet performed by the Alvin Ailey Dance Company. There you go - the gauntlet has been thrown!!!!
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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.
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.
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Overpriced
Slickly done but not worth the price. Not for only 30 minutes of music
Amazing
I love this app, I really hope more like this appear soon for some of my favourite classical piano pieces.
Very Entertaining and Educational.
This is a very well made app. I've used apps by this developer in the classroom before and they've been very useful in helping students develop their score following skills as well as their understanding of the pieces.
A wonderful choice of piece in this app. Now I'm hoping they make more apps for exam board set works!
A wonderful choice of piece in this app. Now I'm hoping they make more apps for exam board set works!
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A joy to see and hear
… and a very good app for those who are starting to enjoy reading music.
The Liszt Sonata
Stephen Hough gives a glittering and masterful performance of Liszt's piano sonata in B Minor. With this app, though, Stephen Hough brings us much more - opening a window on the brilliance of Liszt's composition, with real-time musical score, fingering and voice-over narrative, as he plays. Performance notes on the sonata and the life and times of Liszt complete this technically novel app. If you love classical piano, this one is for you.
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Is it over priced? No
This app is just amazing only wish they did more for other pieces specially the Beethoven sonata's, but back to the app it's fantastic, Stephen is so good at bringing the science of the piece in terms of structure dynamics and the actual story, sometimes you see a master class and it come across as just a class but with this you listen to what he saying then the next time you hear the piece it all makes complete sense it's just brilliant so much in it, you really learn a lot, just a shame I can't play all of it haha
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Rather disappointed...
Rather annoyed that this piano sonata was cobbled and stitched together. No offence to Stephen Hough, but having cuts and edits in the video footage was rather cheap.
For a respected pianist such as yourself, that's just shoddy.
For a respected pianist such as yourself, that's just shoddy.
Fantastic App, need fix some bugs though
I am always a Touchpress fan, and I never regret about buying any of your apps, this app is fantastic as usual. However, on my iPad 3, ios7, when I start the performance, the time displayed is always 0:00, and I can't move the script to skip. Hope you can fix this bug soon!
Lehmanesque
Just as all the reviews have said,the APP is wonderful.
I have always had difficulty entering into the world of Liszt sonata and if this application doesn't do it for me I am a lost soul.Like all the other "Touch press" apps highly recomended.
I have always had difficulty entering into the world of Liszt sonata and if this application doesn't do it for me I am a lost soul.Like all the other "Touch press" apps highly recomended.