🇭🇺Franz Liszt ： Harmonies poétiques et religieuses Invocation S.173/R.14 A158

Beginning with a succession of quiet chords, this piece brings together introspective prayer and the powerful emotional movement that grows from it within a single arc. The calm writing of the opening gradually gives way to long-breathed melodies and increasingly rich sonorities, while a tense climax emerges in the middle section. The music then regains its stillness and closes with a lingering resonance. It is important to keep the inner voices of the chords clear and allow the melody to sing fully. Use the pedal to support the resonance without clouding the texture, and shape the tempo and dynamics flexibly as the music changes to convey both the depth of the prayer and its dramatic breadth.