9 Oct 2018

LISZT: Petrarch Sonnet No 123

From Music Alive, 7:40 pm on 9 October 2018

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Played by Avan Yu at the 2018 Wallace International Piano Festival, 12 July 2018.

Avan Yu

Avan Yu Photo: Irène Zandel

Liszt set three of Petrarch’s sonnets as songs and later provided piano transcriptions of these in his collection Years of Pilgrimage, Book 2.

This sonnet, I’ vidi in terra angelici costumi, extols the beauty and eloquence of a weeping angelic presence … presumably a woman. She has eyes that make the sun jealous and speech that moves mountains and halts rivers.

Recorded by RNZ Concert, 12 July 2018
Engineer: Rangi Powick
Producer: Tim Dodd

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