【钢琴】李斯特 - 玛丽亚连祷歌 S.171e

Franz Liszt - Litanies de Marie, S171e
Performer: Wojciech Waleczek

The following text is taken from introduction of The complete music for solo piano, Vol. 47:
The first three numbers of the 1847 set having been issued previously, we may begin here with a consideration of Litanies de Marie. As Albert Brussee has rightly shown, the earlier, monothematic version of the work was much extended in the second version (track 1), and a new, contrasting theme was added. The principal theme, as he likewise observed, clearly recalls the rhythm of the prayer ‘Sancta Maria, ora pro nobis’. The whole work is of that particular blend of formal solemnity in the face of the eternal mysteries and fervent ardour of which Liszt was such a master, and it is a great pity that he never returned to the work or else its future would have been more worthily assured. (The manuscript of the first version (11) lacks its ending, which it seems would have been imminent, and the piece has been completed here by using the parallel passage from the second version.) There is a thematic connection between this piece and Invocation, but it is impossible to establish that the collection is truly cyclic in any way.