🇭🇺Franz Liszt ： Winterreise (Schubert) S.561 R.246 – Das Wirtshaus

Liszt arranged “Das Wirtshaus” from Schubert’s song cycle Winterreise for solo piano. A long-breathed, song-like melodic line unfolds above accompanying voices that support the harmony, creating music in which quiet consolation and profound weariness intermingle. The changing dynamics and sonorities that accompany the shifts of scene are especially worth hearing. In performance, the melody should remain clearly projected, while the inner voices and accompaniment are kept subdued and the natural breathing of each phrase is preserved. Pedaling should sustain the resonance without allowing it to become blurred, with careful changes corresponding to the harmonic movement.