Скачать или смотреть Liszt - _Années de pèlerinage_, troisième année, Part I -- Joseph Renouf, piano

My 2010 audio recording (with accompanying video score) of the first three pieces of the "third year" of Franz Liszt's monumental character-piece cycle the _Années de pèlerinage_. I'll be gradually converting my older audio recordings to "score recordings" for YouTube purposes -- this is the first to be posted. Figured now was a good time to start this project since I can't make any new video recordings at the moment (waiting for a left-hand mallet finger injury I sustained in a fall to heal).

Like many late works of Liszt, these pieces have a particularly religious bent, especially the first selection, the "Prayer to the Guardian Angels. " Aptly marked _andante pietoso_, it has a beautifully diaphanous sound to it that calls to my mind a heavenly light shining through a window. The two threnodies (indicating a song for the dead) appropriately alternate between funereal lamentation and quiescent bliss. The backdrop for the threnodies is the old cypress trees near the Villa d'Este in Tivoli, Italy. This location is also where the fourth piece (the fountains, or jeux d'eau) of the troisième année "takes place," to be presented first in the concluding second part of the recording (Nos. 4-7).