{"product_id":"liszt-vol-2-annees-de-pelerinage-premiere-annee-suisse-s-160","title":"Liszt, Vol. 2: Années de pèlerinage, Première année: Suisse, S.160","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/pianodisc.com\/audio-samples\/OP3074\/OP3074-sample.mp3\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eAudio Preview\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eDescription\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFranz Liszt and the Creation of Années de pèlerinage — Première année: Suisse, S. 160\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFranz Liszt was born on October 22, 1811, in Raiding, Hungary, and became the most celebrated pianist of the nineteenth century — a performer whose technical command was so far beyond his contemporaries that he effectively redefined what the instrument was capable of. Beyond the showpieces and paraphrases that made his public reputation, however, Liszt was also a composer of considerable literary and philosophical depth, and the \u003cem\u003eAnnées de pèlerinage\u003c\/em\u003e — Years of Pilgrimage — represent his most sustained and ambitious attempt to unite music with landscape, literature, and personal experience. The first volume, Suisse, grew out of his travels through Switzerland in the mid-1830s with the writer Marie d'Agoult, and each of its nine pieces draws directly on the scenery, poetry, and atmosphere of that journey.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe collection moves through a wide range of character and scale. \u003cstrong\u003eChapelle de Guillaume Tell\u003c\/strong\u003e opens the set with a broad, hymn-like solemnity, its spacious harmonies evoking the heroic landscape of the Swiss mountains, while \u003cstrong\u003eAu lac de Wallenstadt\u003c\/strong\u003e is one of the most delicate and atmospheric pieces Liszt ever wrote, its gently lapping figuration in the right hand conjuring the still surface of the lake with quiet precision. \u003cstrong\u003ePastorale\u003c\/strong\u003e and \u003cstrong\u003eÉglogue\u003c\/strong\u003e offer moments of folk-like simplicity and pastoral warmth, while \u003cstrong\u003eAu bord d'une source\u003c\/strong\u003e is a study in shimmering, cascading figuration that captures the play of light on moving water with remarkable vividness. The dramatic center of the collection is \u003cstrong\u003eOrage\u003c\/strong\u003e — a storm piece of considerable turbulence and pianistic force — while \u003cstrong\u003eVallée d'Obermann\u003c\/strong\u003e, the longest and most introspective piece in the set, draws on the Swiss writer Senancour's novel of the same name to explore a mood of vast, searching melancholy that ranges from bare stillness to passages of intense emotional power.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe collection closes with \u003cstrong\u003eLe mal du pays\u003c\/strong\u003e — a piece whose title translates roughly as homesickness or a longing for one's native land — and the gentle, bell-like \u003cstrong\u003eLes cloches de Genève\u003c\/strong\u003e, subtitled Nocturne, whose quietly tolling harmonics bring the Swiss journey to a peaceful and reflective close. Together the nine pieces form one of the most cohesive and imaginatively sustained travel journals in all of piano literature — music that is as much about interior experience as outward landscape, and a work that reveals a side of Liszt far removed from the concert hall virtuoso.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eTrack List:\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003col\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eAnnées de pèlerinage, S.160: I. Chapelle de Guillaume Tell\u003c\/strong\u003e - 6:40\u003cbr\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/pianodisc.com\/audio-samples\/OP3074\/01%20Annees%20de%20pelerinage,%20S.160-%20I.%20Chapelle%20de%20Guillaume%20Tell%20(Sample).mp3\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eAudio Preview\u003c\/a\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eAnnées de pèlerinage, S.160: II. Au lac de Wallenstadt\u003c\/strong\u003e - 2:56\u003cbr\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/pianodisc.com\/audio-samples\/OP3074\/02%20Annees%20de%20pelerinage,%20S.160-%20II.%20Au%20lac%20de%20Wallenstadt%20(Sample).mp3\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eAudio Preview\u003c\/a\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eAnnées de pèlerinage, S.160: III. Pastorale\u003c\/strong\u003e - 1:46\u003cbr\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/pianodisc.com\/audio-samples\/OP3074\/03%20Annees%20de%20pelerinage,%20S.160-%20III.%20Pastorale%20(Sample).mp3\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eAudio Preview\u003c\/a\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eAnnées de pèlerinage, S.160: IV. Au bord d’une source\u003c\/strong\u003e - 3:54\u003cbr\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/pianodisc.com\/audio-samples\/OP3074\/04%20Annees%20de%20pelerinage,%20S.160-%20IV.%20Au%20bord%20d%E2%80%99une%20source%20(Sample).mp3\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eAudio Preview\u003c\/a\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eAnnées de pèlerinage, S.160: V. Orage\u003c\/strong\u003e - 4:22\u003cbr\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/pianodisc.com\/audio-samples\/OP3074\/05%20Annees%20de%20pelerinage,%20S.160-%20V.%20Orage%20(Sample).mp3\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eAudio Preview\u003c\/a\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eAnnées de pèlerinage, S.160: VI. Vallée d’Obermann\u003c\/strong\u003e - 13:58\u003cbr\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/pianodisc.com\/audio-samples\/OP3074\/06%20Annees%20de%20pelerinage,%20S.160-%20VI.%20Vallee%20d%E2%80%99Obermann%20(Sample).mp3\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eAudio Preview\u003c\/a\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eAnnées de pèlerinage, S.160: VII. Églogue\u003c\/strong\u003e - 3:50\u003cbr\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/pianodisc.com\/audio-samples\/OP3074\/07%20Annees%20de%20pelerinage,%20S.160-%20VII.%20Eglogue%20(Sample).mp3\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eAudio Preview\u003c\/a\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eAnnées de pèlerinage, S.160: VIII. Le mal du pays\u003c\/strong\u003e - 5:46\u003cbr\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/pianodisc.com\/audio-samples\/OP3074\/08%20Annees%20de%20pelerinage,%20S.160-%20VIII.%20Le%20mal%20du%20pays%20(Sample).mp3\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eAudio Preview\u003c\/a\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eAnnées de pèlerinage, S.160: IX. Les cloches de Genève (Nocturne)\u003c\/strong\u003e - 6:20\u003cbr\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/pianodisc.com\/audio-samples\/OP3074\/09%20Annees%20de%20pelerinage,%20S.160-%20IX.%20Les%20cloches%20de%20Geneve%20(Nocturne)%20(Sample).mp3\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eAudio Preview\u003c\/a\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli style=\"list-style: none;\"\u003eTotal Runtime - 49:32\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ol\u003e\n","brand":"PianoDisc Music Store","offers":[{"title":"Download","offer_id":67688942633241,"sku":"OP3074","price":31.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0148\/7808\/1110\/files\/Liszt_Vol.2_Anneesdepelerinage_Premiereannee_Suisse_S.160_E.jpg?v=1791416654","url":"https:\/\/store.pianodisc.com\/products\/liszt-vol-2-annees-de-pelerinage-premiere-annee-suisse-s-160","provider":"PianoDisc Music Store","version":"1.0","type":"link"}