Bruno Rigutto - Liszt
« Sleeping is dear to me and even more to be of stone
For a long as insult and shame may last,
It is a great pleasure to neither see not feel;
Do not wake me up, heve pity, speaker softy ». (Michel-Angelo)
We know the powerful influence that exercised the great figure of the sculptor on Liszt’s soul . There is continuity between the dark meditations of the Florentine and the funeral compositions of the méditative Franz Liszt, with their strangely modern tones.
From 1860, the Mephisto Valse stages the all-powerful figure of a devil with a double power over seduction and death, present from the openning bars (the grating open fifths of the famous satanic violin) . Initially called Dance in the Inn for orchestra, this dazzling transcription excels in releasing the sulfurous accents of the waltz-infernal- infernal despite the allusion to the Weberian invitation - sweeping away the fallant figure of redeeming feminity .
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