{"id":50093,"date":"2024-11-22T10:30:00","date_gmt":"2024-11-22T09:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/111212d3-8ca1-444c-8c5b-464856f9bb61"},"modified":"2024-11-22T12:10:37","modified_gmt":"2024-11-22T11:10:37","slug":"fingers-and-nerves-of-steel-the-12-hardest-pieces-of-music-to-play","status":"publish","type":"rss_feed","link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbcmusicmagazine\/rss_feed\/fingers-and-nerves-of-steel-the-12-hardest-pieces-of-music-to-play\/","title":{"rendered":"Fingers and nerves of steel: the 12 hardest pieces of music to play"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Published: Friday, 22 November 2024 at 09:30 AM<\/p>

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Any piece of music is hard until you’ve learnt it of course. But there are some works that seem to rest outside the scope of human capability, whose hurdles give even the most experienced of musicians the willies. Here are ten of the hardest pieces of music to play.<\/p>

Hardest pieces of music to play<\/h2>

12. Ferruccio Busoni’s Piano Concerto in C<\/h3>

This gargantuan work must surely be one of the most daunting piano concertos in the repertoire. And no wonder, as its composer, Ferruccio Busoni<\/a><\/strong> was one of the greatest pianists the world has known. At over 70 minutes, the work is more symphony than concerto<\/a><\/strong>, and features a full male chorus in the final movement (there are five in total). And though the solo part is fiendishly difficult, the pianist also has to perform more as an equal collaborator with the orchestra than as soloist with accompaniment. Busoni was, after all, trying to rise above showy virtuosity and create something of artistic value.\u00a0<\/p>