🇭🇺Franz Liszt ： Festchor und Trauermarsch aus Don Carlo S.435

Liszt’s arrangement for solo piano of the ceremonial chorus and funeral march from Verdi’s opera Don Carlo. The bright, powerful character of the chorus contrasts with the solemn weight of the march, while changes of scene are shaped through the piano’s registers, dynamics, and harmonic sonority. It is important to keep the choral melody from being obscured and to clarify its role in relation to the accompanying figures. In the celebratory sections, bring out the breadth of the sound and the forward momentum; in the funeral sections, emphasize the heaviness of the steps and the lingering resonance of silence. Shaping these dramatic changes as one broad arc highlights the power of the arrangement.