Verdi Liszt La Danza Sacra Duetto Finale Aida Lisitsa

This is an awesome piece by a very very old Liszt. There is nothing flashy or "virtuoso" ( thank you ,Liszt, for not using a famous march or Celeste Aida for this paraphrase lol) but the colors Liszt evokes from the piano , those lush yet eerie colors anticipate what Impressionists were to discover later.
The story here is simple and you probably well know it . If not - here is a very short synopsis: the action takes place in exotic ancient Egypt. But the plot is like any modern soap opera - simple and unbelievable. A love triangle : Pharaoh's daughter falls in love with a promising military man , but he is in love with her slave girl. Everybody suspects everybody. Slave girl turns out ( hello, soap opera ) to be a daughter of Egypt arch-enemy, king of Ethiopia. Egypt is at war with Ethiopia and they seem to be winning , until our hero , blinded by love, tells military secret to his sweetheart. The end is brutal. Pharaoh's daughter offers to save him if he marries her and forgets the other girl. Upon refusal, in rage she orders her beloved to be buried alive in a temple as a sacrifice to angry gods. While the tomb closes over his head he sees that Aida, his beloved , joined him in the grave. What in real life would be a gruesome scene of death by asphyxiation turns by miracle of music into one of the most beautiful songs ever written. Our couple is together without need to hide , for a first time ever they can freely express their love - they bid farewell to mortal life where they suffered so much and look forward to heavens." O terra, addio..." - "Farewell, oh Earth, where we so suffered..."-Meanwhile jealous and rejected pharaoh's daughter keeps dancing on their grave in La Danza Sacra - sacrificial dance. She is the one who now has to hide her bitter tears....