🇭🇺Franz Liszt ： Legende No.2 S.175/R.17

This programmatic work portrays the violently surging water and Saint Francis moving across it through the piano’s rich sense of motion. From the opening, finely animated figuration evokes waves and creates tension, while powerful themes and weighty chords drive the narrative forward. Passages suggesting calm alternate with a gradual increase in intensity, leading to a major climax near the end. In performance, it is essential to preserve both the clarity and momentum of the rapid passages while bringing the melody, which can be buried within the texture, clearly to the foreground. The pedal should enrich the resonance without clouding it; contrasting the turbulence of the waves with the saint’s unwavering presence brings out the work’s dramatic character.