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Les Préludes, S. 97

185416 min

This guide follows Liszt’s Les Préludes, S. 97 (1854) in one part (sonata form).

Recording: Berliner Philharmoniker, Daniel Barenboim (1998)

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Sonata form0:36–16:21

A sketchy, uncertain for strings opens the piece, and the gives it weight. Next the two love themes appear in E major, the second one swaying like a (a boat song). The storm breaks as the begins, and a in a gentle 6/8 follows ( ). The first love as a and the second as a , , in the . The comes back at the end and the music closes soon after.

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