🇭🇺Franz Liszt ： Mephisto Waltz No.3 S.216/R.38

Liszt’s Mephisto Waltz No. 3 is a piano work built on the rhythm of the waltz, interweaving a sense of mystery and sensuality with introspective lyricism. Its ever-changing melodies and richly shaded harmonic shifts evoke the atmosphere of a dance while creating an unstable sense of tension. The music unfolds through contrasting scenes, setting moments of brilliant exhilaration against passages of quiet lyricism. In performance, it is important to preserve the dance character in the left hand while bringing the melody in the right hand clearly to the fore. Pedaling should be carefully controlled to prevent the sound from becoming blurred; shaping the transitions in tempo and dynamics with care highlights the work’s seductive and unsettling qualities.