🇭🇺Franz Liszt ： Années de pèlerinage première année “Suisse” Vallée d’Obermann in e-moll S.160/R.10-6

A large-scale work marked by the contrast between weighty, deeply introspective sonorities and singing melodies. The opening presents music that seems to pose a question, with pauses forming part of its expression, before moving toward lyrical episodes and dramatic passages of mounting tension. As stillness and intensity, as well as monologue and songful expression, alternate, the music builds to a major climax and, near the end, moves toward an afterglow while recalling the introspective atmosphere of the opening. In performance, it is important to bring the melody clearly to the fore without allowing the inner voices to disappear. Frequent tempo fluctuations should not feel arbitrary, but should be unified as the breathing of the phrases; in long crescendos, deepen not only the volume but also the harmonic tension step by step.