Au lac de Wallenstadt - F. Liszt

Marie d’Agoult described it in her diary: “Granite ramparts, inaccessible peaks reared between us and the world, as if to hide us from its view, hidden valleys, black pines that enveloped us in their shadow, murmur of lakes, dull rumblings of precipices, soft and catching rhythms of Alpine places that gave to our temporary ecstasy … the touch of eternal things, dear and dolorous phantoms of my youth, I evoke you in memory…” “The shores of Lake Wallenstadt detained us for a long time. Franz wrote for me there a melancholy harmony, imitative of the sigh of the waves and the cadence of oars, which I have never been able to hear without weeping.” (Walker, 1983) FangFang Shi Inouye, piano #piano #Liszt #lake #music