Hide player

Hyperion Records

Es rauschen die Winde, S294 First version
EnglishDeutsch
The Berlin critic Ludwig Rellstab published a compilation of reviews and newspaper articles about Liszt in 1842 as a result of the concerts that made Liszt a phenomenon comparable to today’s biggest rock stars. In Rellstab’s words, Liszt would leave Berlin ‘not like a king, but as a king’. Three years later, Liszt set a poem by Rellstab, Es rauschen die Winde, that Schubert had earlier set to music under the title ‘Herbst’ (Autumn), D945, its theme the perennial comparison of autumn to old age and the approach of death. In Liszt’s first version, the persona is agitated and desperate, with certain figures that recall Schubert’s persona in ‘Der stürmische Morgen’ from Winterreise. The memory of springtime in parallel major mode (another song-within-a-song) also seems Schubertian in origin, proof that major mode can be as tragic as minor mode in the hands of great composers.

from notes by Susan Youens © 2010

Track-specific metadata
Click track numbers opposite to select

Show: MP3 FLAC ALAC
   English   Français   Deutsch
over £20 for 10% discount on whole order
over £40 for 15% discount on whole order
over £59 for 25% discount on whole order
over £200 for 35% discount on whole order
(P&P free on almost all orders.)
Your basket:
There are no items in your basket.
Use the Buy buttons across the site.

The following discounts will be applied for CD purchases:
ms'); ' %>