Années de Pèlerinage, Complete

Authoritative Russian edition of piano masterpieces, includingPremière Année(Suisse);Deuxième Année(Italie) and its supplement,Venezia e Napoli;Troisième Année,and a number of related pieces, includingApparitionsand "Lyon" fromAlbum d'un voyageur.New translation of Russian footnotes and of editor's preface.

Composer, conductor, and teacher Franz Liszt (1811–86) was renowned throughout Europe for his skills as a concert pianist. The quintessential romantic, he created an extensive and diverse oeuvre that ranges from influential experiments in musical form to more conventional pieces as well as transcriptions of works by other composers.

Première année: Suisse (First Year: Switzerland)
1. Chapelle de Guillaume Tell (William Tell's Chapel)
2. Au lac de Wallenstadt (At the Lake of Walenstadt [the Walensee])
3. Pastorale
4. Au bord d'une source (Beside a Spring)
5. Orage (Storm)
6. Vallée d'Obermann (Obermann's Valley)
7. Églogue (Eclogue)
8. Le mal du pays (Homesickness)
9. Les cloches de Genève: Nocturne (The Bells of Geneva: Nocturne)
Deuxième année: Italie (Second Year: Italy)
1. Sposalizio (Marriage [of the Virgin: a painting by Raphael])
2. Il pensieroso (The Thinker [a statue by Michelangelo])
3. Canzonetta del Salvator Rosa (Salvator Rosa's Song [transcription of a song traditionally attributed to the painter Rosa
4. Sonetto 47 del Petrarca (Petrarch's Sonnet 47)
5. Sonetto 104 del Petrarca (Petrarch's Sonnet 104)
6. Sonetto 123 del Petrarca (Petrarch's Sonnet 123)
7. Après une lecture du Dante: Fantasia quasi sonata (After Reading Dante: Fantasia quasi sonata)
Venezia e Napoli (Venice and Naples [Sepplement to the Second Year])
1. "Gondoliera (Gondolier's Song [based on the song "La biondina in gondoletta" by Giovanni Battista Peruchini])"
2. "Canzone (Song [based on the gondolier's song "Nessun maggior dolore" in Rossini's Otello])"
3. Tarantella [using themes by Guillaume-Louis Cottrau]
Troisième année (Third Year)
1. Angélus! Prière aux anges gardiens (Angelus! Prayer to the Guardian Angels [dedicated to D. von Bülow]
2. Aux cyprès de la Villa d'Este I: Thrénodie (To the Cypresses of the Villa d'Este I: Threnody)
3. Aux cyprès de la Villa d'Este II: Thrénodie (To the Cypresses of the Villa d'Este II: Threnody)
4. Les jeux d'eau à la Villa d'Este (The Fountains of the Villa d'Este)
5. "Sunt lacrymae rerum / En mode hongrois ("There Are Tears for Things" / In the Hungarian Mode [dedicated to Hans von Bülow])"
6. Marche funèbre (Funeral March [in memory of Emperor Maximilian of Mexico]
7. Sursum corda (Lift Up Your Hearts)
Appendix: Related Works
  "Lyon (Lyons [no. 1 of "Impressions et poésies," the first book of Album d'un voyageur])"
  Apparitions
  1. Senza lentezza quasi allegretto
  2. Vivamente
  3. Fantaisie sure une valse de François Schubert (Fantasy on a Waltz by Franz Schubert): Molto agitato ed appassionato
  Tre sonetti del Petrarca (Three Sonnets by Petrarch)
  1. Sonetto 47 di Petrarca (Petrarch's Sonnet 47)
  2. Sonetto 104 di Petrarca (Petrarch's Sonnet 104)
  3. Sonetto 123 di Petrarca (Petrarch's Sonnet 123)
  Venexia e Napoli (Venice and Naples [nos. 1-3 of the origional version)
  1. Lento
  2. Allegro
  3. Adante placido