#annees de pelerinage

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Liszt - Années de pèlerinage - I, Suisse: “Au lac de Wallenstadt“

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Annees De Pelerinage, 2eme Annee : Italie, S.161 - VII. Apres Un Lecture Du Dante ( The Dante Sonata )

By Composer Franz Liszt 

Mikhail Pletnev, Pianist 

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we’re losing our collective minds in twelve different ways and thats brave and sexy of us

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Liszt - Années de pèlerinage I. Suisse

The first set in his sprawling masterpiece, Years of Pilgrimage, is like a musical travel diary where Liszt recreated impressions of Switzerland. The title and overall spirit of the work was inspired by a novel by Goethe, Wilhem Meister’s Apprenticeship and its sequel Wilhem Meister’s Journeyman Years. Both books are in the coming of age genre, and in the same sense of finding oneself, I like to think of this set as Liszt finding himself as a more “serious” composer. Yes there are dazzling technical moments but the music is so rich and poetic, there are so many intimate pieces and reflections in the suite. He wrote it while he was touring in Switzerland with one of his lovers, as an expansion of his earlier suite “Album d’un voyageur”. It opens with a grand choral, a homage to William Tell “All for One and One for All”, then goes through three calm and charming nature pieces. We are then flung about by a harmonically unstable bombastic storm. Right after that is the crown jewel of the set, the Vallée du Obermann, based on a novel about a man in the Swiss countryside who seeks meaning in his loneliness and in nature. After another nature poem, we get an uneasy rocking depiction of homesickness which sounds like early echoes of his modernist masterpiece from his later years, “Nuages Gris”. The suite closes with a passionate nocturne, Les cloches de Genève, that glitters off into the night. When I was a teenager, and so at my most sappy and sentimental, I was in love with a few of the pieces in this suite, especially Obermann’s Valley, and it was one of those works that I had to listen to every now and then to keep myself feeling stable.

Movements:

1. Chapelle de Guillaume Tell (The Chapel of William Tell) 2. Au lac de Wallenstadt (At Lake Wallenstadt)  3. Pastorale  4. Au bord d'une source (Beside a Spring)  5. Orage (Storm)  6. Vallée d'Obermann (Obermann's Valley)  7. Eglogue (Eclogue)  8. Le mal du pays (Homesickness)  9. Les cloches de Genève: Nocturne (The Bells of Geneva: Nocturne)

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Liszt’s Annees de pelerinage III, S. 163: No. 4, Les jeux d’eaux a la Villa d’Este, as performed by Garrick Ohlsson

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Liszt 

Annees de pelerinage (Years of Pilgrimage )

Book II, Second Year: Italy 

Sposalizio 

Louis Lortie pianist

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Années de pèlerinage II, S. 161: Annees de pelerinage, 2nd year, Italy, ...

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“Le mal du pays”

“The quiet, melancholy music gradually gave shape to the undefined sadness enveloping his heart, as if countless microscopic bits of pollen adhered to an invisible being concealed in the air, ultimately revealing, slowly and silently, its shape.” - Haruki Murakami, Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage.

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1. The Plantes, Op.32/H.125: Jupiter, the Bringer of Jollity (Allegro giouoso) - London Philharmonic Orchestra 2. Barber: Adagio for Strings - Samuel Barber, Berliner Philharmoniker 3. Romeo and Juliet Op. 64, Act 1: No. 12, Masks - Prokofiev 4. Annees de pelerinage, 1ere annee "Suisse", S. 160: No. 2 Au lac de Wallenstadt - Franz Liszt, Jeno Jando 5. Piano Sonata No. 14 in C-Sharp Minor, Op. 27 No.2 "Moonlight": I. Adagio sostenuto - Beethoven 6. The Sleeping Beauty, Op. 66: TH 13, Act I "The Spell": No. 8a, Grand pas d'action. Grand adage a la rose - Tchaikovsky 7. Piano Concerto in A Minor, Op.16: I. Allegro molto moderato - Edvard Grieg, Javier Perianes, BBC Symphony Orchestra 8. Light Moving - David Lang, Hilary Hahn, Cory Smythe 9. Giselle / Act 1: No. 3 Entree de Giselle - Adolphe Adam 10. Swan Lake Op.20: Act 2 Dances of the Swans - IV Allegro moderato - Tchaikovsky

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Since his 2014 victory in BBC Young Musician of the Year competition, Martin James Bartlett has built a considerable international reputation. Love and Death, with its imaginatively conceived programme, gives proof of his artistic range.

"I'm absolutely thrilled to have signed with Warner Classics and to release my debut album Love and Death,” he says. “These are two elemental themes that have inspired breathtaking masterpieces from poets and composers for centuries. My album will feature gloriously beautiful music by Bach, Schumann, Wagner, Liszt and Granados, culminating with an impassioned and fiery 'War' Sonata of Prokofiev and I can't wait to share it with everyone."

In creating the programme, Bartlett’s starting point was Liszt’s transcription of Schumann’s passionate song ‘Widmung’ (‘Dedication’), set to a poem by Friedrich Rückert. “It is a love song that also speaks of death,” he explains, “and it concludes with a quote from Schubert’s Ave Maria, introducing the idea of heavenly love.” These themes are explored throughout the album. ‘Widmung’ will be the first track from Love and Death to be released on all streaming platforms in March.

1. Ich ruf zu dir, Herr Jesu Christ, BWV 639 (Arr. Busoni)  2. Jesu Joy of Man's Desiring, BWV 147 (Arr. Hess)  3. Annees de pelerinage, Deuxieme annee - Italie, S 161: No 4, Sonetto 47 del Petrarca  4. Annees de pelerinage, Deuxieme annee - Italie, S 161: No 5, Sonetto 104 del Petrarca  5. Annees de pelerinage, Deuxieme annee - Italie, S 161: No 6, Sonetto 123 del Petrarca  6. 3 Liebestraume, S 541: No 3 in A-Flat Major  7. Widmung, Op. 25 No. 1 (Arr. Liszt, S. 566a)  8. Goyescas, Op. 11: V. El amor y la muerte (Balada)  9. Isoldens Liebestod, S. 447 (Arr. Liszt)  10. Piano Sonata No. 7 in B-Flat Major, Op. 83: I. Allegro inquieto - Andantino  11. Piano Sonata No. 7 in B-Flat Major, Op. 83: II. Andante caloroso  12. Piano Sonata No. 7 in B-Flat Major, Op. 83: III. Precipitato

Release Date: 3 May 2019

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Belle journee avec Gaetane, belle soeur de Matthieu, qui nous accompagnera durant cette semaine de tourisme Avant le Pelerinage.. Visite du Chateau d' Osaka avec le soleil et son jardin de pruniers et cerisiers deja en fleurs : Magnifique !!! La saison avance chaque annee avec le rechauffement climatique..... Decouverte du quartier populaire de la ville avant le diner... Et retour toujours a pied pour mieux sentir cette ville incroyable.... Bonne nuit.

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Liszt - Venezia e Napoli (1861)

In the second “Years of Pilgrimage”, Liszt wrote down his impressions of Italian culture, each piece either inspired by a painting or a poem. Afterward, he wrote three pieces that he added to the end of the suite as “supplemental” material; Venice and Naples. Though interestingly, Liszt had taken these trips through Italy about thirty years prior to the suite’s completion, so we get a lot of reminiscing on old experiences. It makes me think of Wordsworth’s great unfinished autobiographical poem, The Prelude, in which there is a scene where the young Wordsworth is preparing for a trip to the Alps, where others before him had talked about sublime experiences, bordering on religious. He gets to the mountains, and they’re beautiful but he’s disappointed because he does not have the sublime experience. It isn’t until later that night, that he thinks about what he saw more, that he can recognize the majesty of nature, and so he writes the expected “sublime poem” about his experience, but after the fact. It’s interesting to see how memory can distort and reconstruct reality. Similarly the work opens with an evocation of Venice, a really Romanticized idea, dark harmonies playing in a rowing motion, like the waves lapping against the gondola. The melody here is based off of a popular Venetian song at the time, and it is expanded into this atmospheric barcarolle. While it has a lot of sentimentality and ornamentation, it doesn’t get gushy. Here, cultural impressions of Venice can come together in my mind and recreate a gorgeous night in the city. The second piece is a canzone which opens with jabbing trills, knocking you into attention. The melody here comes from Rossini’s opera Otello, and it carries the expected Shakespearian melodrama, the melody is very dark and constantly falling. Through relentless trills and tremolandos, the music is gloomy and pessimistic. Only a light glittering near the end gives a sense of hope. Without pause we are thrown into the tarantella. And, oh man, it sounds exactly as you’d expect a “Liszt tarantella” to sound: finger achingly fast notes, octaves, leaps, and monstrous chords. The tarantella theme breaks away for a sardonic “hero” like theme. The middle has a lovely canzona, before taking us back to the rowdiness of the tarantella. At the end of the stunt, accidentals and rapid chords fling us into a Romantic flourish of an ending, like the last dance at a night long carnevale festival.

Movements:

1. Gondoliera

2. Canzone

3. Tarantella 

Pianist: Lazar Berman