Venezia e Napoli

Italie for String Quartet Score and Parts. Par BAKER CLAUDE. Annees de pelerinage: Italie (Years of Pilgrimage: Italy) derives its title from the set of three suites for piano by Franz Liszt in which he musically portrays the strongest sensations and most lively impressions created by his travels to Italy and Switzerland during the period 1835-39. In this composition, each of the four movements explores a particular Italian city or region through, in part, the eyes of other composers who (like Liszt) were inspired to write works based on their own sojourns in the country. There are references, both literal and oblique, to music by Berlioz, Tchaikovsky and Liszt (with a sly wink from Paganini). Serious and playful elements combine in thepiece, with the two inner movements (II. Venezia e Napoli and III. Firenze) providing light-hearted foils to the more somber outer movements (I. Roma and IV. Abruzzo). Annees de pelerinage: Italie (Years of Pilgrimage: Italy) derives its title from the set of three suites for piano by Franz Liszt in which he musically portrays the strongest sensations and most lively impressions created by his travels to Italy and Switzerland during the period 1835-39. In this composition, each of the four movements explores a particular Italian city or region through, in part, the eyes of other composers who (like Liszt) were inspired to write works based on their own sojourns in the country. There are references, both literal and oblique, to music by Berlioz, Tchaikovsky and Liszt (with a sly wink from Paganini). Serious and playful elements combine in thepiece, with the two inner movements (II. Venezia e Napoli and III. Firenze) providing light-hearted foils to the more somber outer movements (I. Roma and IV. Abruzzo). / Date parution : 2019-05-27/ Répertoire / Quatuor à Cordes

Par LISZT FRANZ. La genèse et la publication des deux premiers volumes des Années de pèlerinage de Liszt sont étroitement liées. À peine un an après leur retour de Suisse, Liszt et sa compagne, Marie d?Agoult, entreprennent en août 1837 un voyage en Italie qui durera plus de deux années. Si, dans le volume Suisse, le compositeur s?était principalement attaché à dépeindre en musique la nature, les paysages et l?histoire du pays, il transcrit dans la partie Italie des impressions provenant de la poésie (Pétrarque, Dante) et des arts plastiques (Raphaël, Michel-Ange). L?ensemble de sept pièces composées entre 1838 et 1849, qui s?achève sur son point culminant, la sonate dite Dante, a fait, avant sa publication en 1858, l?objet de multiples remaniements partiels. Le cahier Venezia e Napoli, paru trois ans plus tard sous forme d?un supplément, est disponible séparément sous la référence HN 985. Par ailleurs, la présente édition révisée prend pour la première fois en compte une copie manuscrite du n° 2 (copie destinée au graveur), comportant des corrections de la main de Liszt. Le pianiste suisse Francesco Piemontesi a pu être sollicité pour la réalisation des doigtés. / Date parution : 2022-02-03/ Recueil / Piano

Années de Pèlerinage Deuxième Année - Italie-Between 1837 39 Liszt was travelling through Italy with Marie d?Agoult. As was the case with the first volume of the Années de Pèlerinage Schweiz (1835/36) he once again recorded his travel impressions in musicalform. He devoted himself to subjects from literature (Petrarca Dante) and the visual arts (Raffael Michelangelo). Many years later Liszt reworked the pieces publishing them in 1858 as Années de Pèlerinage Zweites Jahr Italien.The central work in this volume is the large-scale so-called Dante Sonata (Après une Lecture de Dante see also single edition HN 981). The Sonetto 104 del Petrarca (also available as a single edition HN 982) isjust as popular. In 1861 Liszt published an appendix to Volume II Venezia e Napoli which is also available as a separate edition HN 985.