This content was created by The Piano Pod with Yukimi Song. This content was uploaded by The Piano Pod with Yukimi Song. This is a YouTube trailer titled "Official Trailer ✅: Season 4, Episode 1 feat. Dr. Michael Kaykov" (uploaded 2023-09-04). It captures a conversational interview between host The Piano Pod with Yukimi Song and guest Dr. Michael Kaikov (concert pianist, recording artist, and educator). They discuss Franz Liszt’s wide-ranging repertoire and transcriptions, interpretation and practice philosophy, and personal investment in one’s career. The excerpt ends with a promotional call-to-action promoting the episode premiere (Tuesday, Sept 5 at 8 PM Eastern) and asking viewers to subscribe/follow The Piano Pod.
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Franz Liszt is really my favorite. Just the sheer amount of works that you can explore and the amount of different styles that all of those compositions encompass. You can also look at his transcriptions. I mean, Liszt transcribed stuff from Bach preludes and fugues for organ to completely free fantasies on Bach works, to things that are like multi-stylistic, like this Handel transcription, things based on popular tunes, like a ridiculous amount of variety. Really experimental works. So with Franz Liszt, you're just never going to run out of repertoire ideas. At some point, you have to really think, how do I want to play this composition? Or, you know, what do I want to play and why am I picking it? At least I think when you get to the point where you can play what you want and how you want, I think that's already a very— that's already a win. Early training is based on restriction. What not to do, and you also learn by imitation. That's a very good thing up to a certain point. When you're finally given a completely free pass to do whatever you want, what are you going to do?
That's, that's an interesting—
when you get to that point, that's pretty interesting. What are you going to pick? How are you going to play it and why?
You know, with the accessibility in technology, And you'll be able to do if you are willing to do this, take this path.
No, yes, absolutely. You have to, you have to be completely behind it and then you can't back down. Once you go for it, you go for it. You know something, when I started investing my own money into this, I started playing better. Really, it's, it's like a really bad thing to say, but it's like, no, when your own money is on the line, you are absolutely going to prepare to your best ability.
You can create your pathway.
It's, it's so awesome.
Tune in tomorrow night, Tuesday, September 5th, at 8 PM Eastern on The Piano Pod's YouTube channel for an enthralling chat with Dr. Michael Kaikov, a renowned concert pianist, recording artist, and educator. The audio episode will be divided into two segments, with Part 1 launching simultaneously on your preferred podcast platform during the video premiere. Make sure to hit subscribe or follow The Piano Pod. Find all necessary links in the description. Catch you this Tuesday.
