Années de Pèlerinage

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Années de Pèlerinage (Years of Pilgrimage) are three suites by Franz Liszt for solo piano. In each collection, Liszt includes each of his musical styles ranging from technical vituosity to sincere musicality. His musical maturity can be seen evolving through his experience and travel.

1 The suites
2 In Media
3 External links
4 References

[edit] The suites

[edit] Première Année: Suisse

The title translates to "first year: Switzerland". It was published in 1855. Nos. 1–4, 6, 8 and 9 are revisions, composed 1848–1854, of pieces in the cycle Album d'un voyageur, composed 1835–1836 and published in 1842.

Chapelle de Guillaume Tell (William Tell's Chapel)
Au Lac de Wallenstadt (At the Lake of Walenstadt)
Pastorale
Au Bord d'une Source (Beside a Spring)
Orage (Storm)
Vallée d'Obermann (Obermann's Valley)
Eglogue (Eclogue)
Le Mal du Pays (Homesickness)
Les Cloches de Geneve: Nocturne (The Bells of Geneva: Nocturne)

[edit] Deuxième Année: Italie

Title translates as "second year: Italy" Published 1856; composed 1837–1849; nos. 4–6 are revisions of Tre sonetti del Petrarca (Three sonnets of Petrarch) composed ca. 1839–1846 and published 1846.

Sposalizio (Marriage (of the Virgin: a painting by Raphael))
Il Pensieroso (The Thinker (a statue by Michelangelo))
Canzonetta del Salvator Rosa (Canzonetta of Salvator Rosa)
Sonetto 47 del Petrarca (Petrarch's Sonnet 47)
Sonetto 104 del Petrarca (Petrarch's Sonnet 104)
Sonetto 123 del Petrarca (Petrarch's Sonnet 123)
Après une Lecture de Dante: Fantasia Quasi Sonata (After Reading Dante: Fantasia Quasi Sonata)

Venezia e Napoli (Venice and Naples (supplement to the Second Year)) Published 1861; composed 1859, partially as a revision of an earlier set with the same name Composed ca. 1840)

Gondoliera' (Gondolier's Song (based on the song "La Biondina in Gondoletta" Giovanni Battista Peruchini))
Canzone (Canzone (based on the gondolier's song "Nessun Maggior Dolore" in Rossini's Otello))
Tarantella (Tarantella (using themes by Guillaume-Louis Cottrau, 1797–1847))

[edit] Troisième Année

Title means "third year". Published 1883; nos 1–4 and 7 composed in 1877; no 5, 1872; no 6, 1867

'Angélus! Prière aux Anges Gardiens (Angelus! Prayer to the Guardian angel (dedicated to D. von Bulow))
Aux Cypres de la Villa d'Este I: Thrénodie (to the Cypresses of the Villa d'Este I: Threnody)
Aux Cypres De La Villa d'Este II: Thrénodie (to the Cypresses of the Villa d'Este II: Threnody)
'Les Jeux d'Eaux à la Villa d'Este (The Fountains of the Villa d'Este)
Sunt Lacrymae Rerum/En Mode Hongrois (There are Tears for Things/In the Hungarian Mode (dedicated to Hans von Bulow))
Marche Funèbre (Funeral March (in memory of Emperor Maximilian of Mexico)
Sursum Corda' (Lift Up Your Hearts)

[edit] In Media

[edit] Sound Recordings

There have been a few recordings made of the suites, in complete or incomplete form.

Claudio Arrau (1ere Année: Suisse) 1928, 1969, 1989

Claudio Arrau (2e Année: Italie) 1937, 1969, 1982, 1984

Claudio Arrau (3e Année: Italie) 1928, 1969, 1983

Lazar Berman (Liszt: Années De Pèlerinage) (Deutsche Grammophon) 1993

Aldo Ciccolini (Liszt: Les Années de pèlerinage) (EMI Classics) 2003

Stephen Hough (Liszt: Années de pèlerinage - Suisse) (Hyperion Records) 2005

Yoram Ish-Hurwitz (Liszt: Années de Pèlerinage, Première Année (Suisse)) (Turtle Records) 2004 [1]

Yoram Ish-Hurwitz (Liszt: Années de Pèlerinage, Deuxième Année (Italie)) (Turtle Records) 2003 [2]

Yoram Ish-Hurwitz (Liszt: Années de Pèlerinage, Troisième Année) (Turtle Records) 2004 [3]

Leslie Howard (All 3 Années de Pèlerinage) 1995, 1996 and 1990 (Hyperion Records)

[edit] Video

Alfred Brendel (Deutsche Grammophon) DVD

[edit] In Print

Dover Publications has issued a complete transcription of the 3 suites in one bound volume. At one time, the American publisher Schirmer issued separate editions of the suites, but these appear to have fallen out of print.