Franz Liszt - Deux Polonaises de l’oratorio St. Stanislas, (Vieira)

0:00 - Polonaise I, 5:09 - Polonaise II, This piece has been recommended for my channel multiple times, especially requested by hatsune、, and so here it finally is :) The second polonaise is definitely a rare gem in Liszt’s work, especially the sounds of the minor-major-seven chords! The first Polonaise is a dark piece, harking back in some ways to such forerunners as Chopin’s C minor Polonaise and Liszt’s Polonaise mélancolique, and by the end even the metre, let alone the rhythm, of the dance is quite removed in a mystical rocking of simple chords. By contrast, the second Polonaise is thoroughly festive, breaking into a Polish revolutionary song ‘Dabrowski-Mazurek’ at the coda. This song also generates the second part of Salve Polonia, while the first section of that work, full of portents of Liszt’s late music, varies another famous Polish patriotic-religious song ‘O Lord who has guarded Poland’ around a tranquil and harmonically daring development of it—superscribed with a quotation from Psalm 83 (84 in the Authorized Version): ‘Yea, the sparrow hath found an house, and the swallow a nest for herself, where she may lay her young, even thine altars, O Lord of hosts.’ (Howard) Pf: Amaral Vieira