Liszt - Années de pèlerinage: Italie - Earlier Versions
0:02 Sposalizio, S.157a (1st version of S.161/1)
8:55 Il penseroso, S.157b (1st version of S.161/2)
13:16 Canzonetta del Salvator Rosa, S.157c (1st version of S.161/3)
16:20 Tre Sonetti di Petrarca No.2, S.158/2 (1st version of S.161/4)
23:46 Tre Sonetti di Petrarca No.1, S.158/1 (1st version of S.161/5)
32:22 Tre Sonetti di Petrarca No.3, S.158/3 (1st version of S.161/6)
39:20 Paralipomènes á la Divina Commedia ; Fantaisie symphonique, S.158a (1st version of S.161/7)
1:01:14 (Appendix) Sposalizio, NOT numbered (Earliest draft of S.161/1)
pf. Emanuele Arciuli
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My additional thoughts and comments :
1. Sposalizio
There are part of manuscript with cancelled lines which was preserved at Goethe-Schiller Archiv, and regarded as even earlier draft than the actual first version. The NLA editor guides the lead to the 76th bar of the original after the 71st bar of the earliest draft, but actually the chords before the 85th bar are already completed in bars 70-71 of the draft. So the performer decided to play directly to another cancelled draft, which was similar with bars starting from 85th bar but not included in the NLA sheet music. The earliest draft itself had been not finished, but it can be played naturally by continuing to 100th bar. So I edited the audio to connect the performer's recording (which was named as 'excerpt') with the 100th bar of the first version.
2. Il penseroso & Canzonetta del Salvator Rosa
These two pieces have had only very minor revisions, and for some reason the NLA did not publish these two earlier versions as separate scores. (Maybe the differences were too minor to publish separately?) Therefore I made the score myself by editing the final version of the score, referring to the GSA manuscript.
3. Tre Sonetti di Petrarca
3 Sonetti di Petrarca has a different order of the pieces from the first and final version (=Années de pèlerinage: Italie). I rearranged the order to match the final version.
4. Paralipomènes á la Divina Commedia ; Fantaisie symphonique
One of Liszt's greatest masterpieces, the Dante Sonata, has at least four versions, and in this recording the performer played the piece by mixing the first, second, third versions, and also his own arrangements. So strictly speaking this recording is not purely the first version. (However the score in this video shows only the first version.) For this reason I will upload another video including each version separately later.