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Piano Concerto No. 2 in A major, S. 125

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This guide follows Liszt’s Piano Concerto No. 2 in A major, S. 125 (1861) in one part (sonata form).

Recording: Krystian Zimerman (piano), Orchester der Bayreuther Festspiele, Daniel Barenboim (1986)

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Follow all 5 sections as they play

Sonata form0:00–21:34

Listen first for the hush at the start: a clarinet, joined by a few other woodwinds, sings a gentle made of an A major chord followed by a distant chord on F. Almost everything later grows from it. The timeline hears a design: , , (the passage leading back to the opening material), and a that doubles as the . Late in the piece the opening melody as a in A major, and then the begins.

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Section boundaries in music are not always sharp; a transition may be felt over a pause or a held chord.

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