Liszt: Vallée d’Obermann, [Korstick]

All audio rights belong to Michael Korstick and NAXOS of America. “Première année: Suisse“ (“First Year: Switzerland“), , was published in 1855. Composed between 1848 and 1854, most of the pieces are revisions of Album d’un voyageur: Part 1: Impressions et Poesies, . “Au lac de Wallenstadt“ (No. 2) and “Au bord d’une source“ (No. 4) received only minor revisions, while “La Chapelle de Guillaume Tell“ (No. 1), “Vallée d’Obermann“ (No. 6), and especially “Les cloches de Genève“ (No. 9) were more extensively rewritten. Vallée d’Obermann (Obermann’s Valley) in E minor – Inspired by Étienne Pivert de Senancour’s novel of the same title, set in Switzerland, with a hero overwhelmed and confused by nature, suffering from ennui and longing, finally concluding that only our feelings are true. The captions include one from Byron’s succeeding canto 97, (“Could I embo