Liszt - 12 Lieder von Franz Schubert (Winterreise) Piano transcriptions-SCORE

Piano: Avan yu, Boris Zarankin (no.7) Fortepiano: Els Biesemans 1) Gute Nacht 00:00 2) Die Nebensonnen 5:07 3) Muth 9:00 4) Die Post 10:21 5) Erstarrung 13:03 6) Wasserfluth 16:08 fortepiano 7) Der Lindenbaum 18:22 8) Der Leyermann 25:26 9) Täuschung 27:42 10) Das Wirtshaus 29:19 11) Der stürmische Morgen 34:10 fortepiano 12) Im Dorfe 35:13 fortepiano What a pity that Liszt did not transcribe the whole cycle of Winterreise! His Zwölf Lieder von Franz Schubert—[aus] Winterreise (‘Twelve songs of Franz Schubert—[from] Winter’s Journey’) are of exactly the same fine quality as his Schwanengesang transcriptions, and to have only half the cycle is tantalizing, even though the selection and arrangement of it has its own story to tell. Liszt begins his journey as does Schubert, with the uncannily imaginative walking song Gute Nacht (‘Goodnight’), eliminating the penultimate verse and treating the piece as a theme and variations. As so often, the poet’s theme is that of love rejected, and Liszt contributes wit