🇭🇺Franz Liszt ： Années de pèlerinage troisième année Sunt lacrymae rerum S.163/R.10

This character piece contrasts a deeply mournful melody with powerful rhythms marked by Hungarian inflections. Beginning with a sorrowful statement, it heightens the tension by expanding the harmonic weight and register, passes through more impassioned episodes, and returns to its elegiac mood. The principal melody should not be buried under the weight of the texture; its role must remain distinct from the inner voices and accompaniment. Even amid wide dynamic contrasts, restraint is essential, while a performance that preserves the underlying pulse within a flexible sense of tempo brings out both the tears of human life suggested by the title and the music’s rhythmic vitality.