Harmonies poétiques et religieuses, Piano

Franz Liszt: Armonías poéticos poéticas y religiosas, para piano.

Edición de / Edited by: Adrienne Kaczmarczyk.

In Volume I/9 of the New Liszt Edition the definitive ten-movement version of the piano cycle Harmonies poétiques et religieuses was published in 1981. On several occasions Liszt mentioned that he attached particular importance to this cycle, and this is confirmed by the fact that he devoted almost two decades (1835-1853) to its composition. This Supplement volume of the New Liszt Edition initiates the reader into the mysteries of the cycle's genesis, publishing 17 completed pieces written for it and 6 that have survived as fragments, together with the album leaves belonging to them. The works composed between 1840 and 1848 also reflect the various concepts of the cycle and theprior history of the movements included in the final version, more than one shows Liszt's skill as an improviser. Among the compositions that survive in manuscript there are gems such as the hitherto virtually unknown Piano piece in G flat major, conceived in a moment of unselfconscious happiness. Others waiting to be discovered include the Piano piece in C minor and the enchantingly beautiful prayer, Litanies de Marie, of which two versions were written.

CONTENIDO:

Abbreviations
General preface
Preface
Facsimiles

Prière d'un enfant à son réveil

Compositions in the Tasso Sketchbook
-Piano Piece in C minor
-Piano Piece in E minor
-Dernière illusion
-Piano Piece in G flat major
-Attente
-March in C sharp minor
-Alternative
-M.K.

Harmonies poétiques et religieuses
-Invocation
-Hymne de la nuit
-Hymne du matin
-Litanies de Marie
-Miserere d'après Palestrina
-Pater noster d'après la psalmodie de l'Église
-Hymne de l'enfant à son réveil
-Les morts
-La lampe du temple ou L'Âme présente à Dieu
-Piano Piece in E flat major
-Piano Piece in E flat major (Bénédiction de Dieu dans la solitude)

Appendix
-Harmonies poétiques et religieuses: Album Leaf from the Piano Piece
-Three Album Leaves in A flat major
-Albun Leaf in D flat major
-Pensées (Reims, 6 Novembre)
-Litanies de Marie (1st Version)