Lugansky - Liszt - Les jeux d’eaux à la Villa d’Este

Franz Liszt (1811 – 1886) Années de Pèlerinage - Trosième année, suite for piano, S. 163 Les jeux d’eaux à la Villa d’Este (Years of Pilgrimage - Fountains of the Villa d’Este) Nikolai Lugansky, piano, 2012 “Impressionism is clearly in evidence in Les jeux d’eaux à la Villa d’Este (The Fountains of the Villa d’Este), the most popular piece from the set and the brightest and most picturesque creation in the entire trilogy. You can see cascading droplets and streams of water falling, spraying and splashing in the sunlight. The work also has its share of pianistic challenges, not least of which are the demands for coloristic effects and tonal subtlety. Sunt lacrymae rerum, subtitled “In the Hungarian mode“, returns to the darker moods of the earlier pieces. Here, however, the approach is more declamatory, the composer once again, as in Funerailles, depicting Hungary from the time of the country’s failed efforts at independenc