Lugansky - Liszt, Vallée d’Obermann

Franz Liszt (1811 – 1886) Années de pèlerinage, Premième année (“Suisse“), S. 160 No. 6 - Vallée d’Obermann (1848-1855) Nikolai Lugansky, 2012 From Sverdlovsk Philharmonic [0:00] Lento assai [4:55] Un poco più di moto, ma sempre lento - Recitativo 7:00 - Più mosso 7:43 - Presto 8:17 - Lento 9:00 [9:57] Lento (dolce) - Sempre animando sino al fine 11:57 “The actual date of composition of Vallée d’Obermann given in the headnote might well be expanded to include the period 1835 - 1836 since it is based on the fourth work, also titled Vallée d’Obermann, in Liszt’s early collection Album d’un voyageur, which dates to that time. This later version is the sixth piece in Suisse, the first volume of the three that comprise Liszt’s Années de pèlerinage. The inspiration for the piece is the 1804 novel Obermann by Etiene Jeane Senancour, which tells of the dispirited title character whose mis