Final Concert of the International M. K. Čiurlionis Music Festival

November 27 d., 19.00

National events at the Philharmonic Great Hall, Vilnius 

ROGER MURARO, piano, France

PROGRAMME

Ferenc Liszt (1811-1886)

For Piano Cycle "THE YEARS OF THE CLAIMS"

Part I

First Year: Switzerland (S 160)

Chapelle de Guillaume Tell (Chapel of Guillaume Tell)
Au lac de Wallenstadt  (By the lake of Wallenstadt)
Pastorale in E major (Pastorale)
Au bord d'une source (By a source)
Orage (Storm)
Vallée d'Obermann (Obermann Valley)
Eglogue
(Longing for the homeland)
Le mal du pays (Longing for the homeland)
Les cloches de Genève (Bells of Genève)

Party II

The Second Year: Italy (S 161)

Sposalizio (The Flower Shops)
Il penseroso (The Thinker)
Canzonetta del Salvator Rosa  (Song of Salvator Rosa)
Sonetto 47 del Petrarca (Sonnet No. 47)
Sonetto 104 del Petrarca (Petrarch's Sonnet No.104)
Sonetto 123 del Petrarca (Petrarch's sonnet No.123)
Après une lecture du Dante: Fantasia Quasi Sonata (Sonata-Fantasia After Reading Dante)

Venice and Naples (S 162)

Gondoliera (Gondolier's Song)
Canzone (Song)
Tarantella (Tarantella)

Part III

Third Year (S 163)

Angélus! Prière aux anges gardiens 
Aux cyprès de la Villa d'Este I: Thrénodie in G minor (Villa d'Este cypresses (1))
Aux cyprès de la Villa d'Este II: Thrénodie in E minor (Vilos d'Este cypresses (2))
Les jeux d'eaux à la Villa d'Este (Vilos d'Este  fontanai)
Sunt lacrymae rerum/En mode hongrois
(Funeral march. In memory of Maximilian I, Emperor of Mexico)
Sursum corda

The International M. K. Čiurlionis Music Festival presents an exceptional event in the music world: the legendary French pianist Roger Muraro will perform a programme that few virtuosos dare to play - all three movements of Ferenc Liszt's piano cycle "The Year of Wanderings".

This is one of the most technically and emotionally demanding cycles in piano literature, requiring exceptional talent and endurance from the performer.

The Hungarian composer's musical diary not only recounts the impressions of his journeys to Switzerland and Italy, but also reveals the transformation of his personality, from a young lover of nature and works of art in his first year in Switzerland, to a philosopher in search of a refreshing refreshment in literature in his second year in Italy, to a humble thinker who discovered peace and religion in his third year in the world of music and literature.

This three-part cycle consists of 26 plays inspired by the texts of Petrarch, Schiller, Byron, Dante and other writers, the works of Raffaello and Michelangelo, and sometimes simply by the incomparable beauty of nature.