CLAUDIO ARRAU PLAYS LISZT’S DANTE SONATA - FINALLY COMPLETE!

Franz Liszt [1811-1886] Après une Lecture de Dante: Fantasia quasi Sonata Claudio Arrau, piano The piece is divided into two main subjects. The first, a chromatic theme in D minor, typifies the wailing of souls in Hell. D minor is a common key for music relating to death, as evidenced by Liszt’s Totentanz and the statue scene of Wolfgang Mozart’s Don Giovanni. The first theme also heavily uses the augmented 4th/diminished 5th Tritone; this interval was known as the Devil’s interval [or devil in music]