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"The Italian year of Pilgrimage"
List is the consummate tour guide
who has distilled for us, in less
than one hour's listening, the
essence of the life, visual art and
literature of Renaissance Italy, a
tour that even today is de
rigueur for the tourist who
wants more out of this trip than a
few fine souvenirs. There is the
buoyancy of Salvator Rosa's
Canzonetta as it could still be sung
on the streets of Naples, the
serenity and intensity of Rafael's
"The Betrothal (of Mary and
Joseph)," the somber meditation on
Lorenzo de Medici's sepulcher in
Florence. Further, of course, the
great early vernacular poets,
represented in respectively the
monumental "Dante Fantasia" and
three moving Petrarca's portraits of
his great love, Beatrice. The "Vallée
d'Obermann" from the First Year of
Pilgrimage (Switzerland) laments: "I
have experienced it all in that
memorable night. I have devoured
ten years of my life."
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CD Contents:
Franz Liszt 1811-1886
Sposalizio
Il Penseroso
Canzonetta del Salvator Rosa
Sonetti del Petrarca 47, 104, 123
Après une lecture de Dante -
Fantasia quasi Sonata
Vallée d'Obermann
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