Harmonies Poetiques et Religieuses : Engerer(P)

Liszt: Harmonies poetiques et religieuses, S. 173

No. 1: Invocation [06:50]
No. 2: Ave Maria [05:56]
No. 3: Bennediction de Dieu dans la solitude [16:55]
No. 4: Pensees des morts [11:14]
No. 5: Pater Noster [02:35]
No. 6: Hymne de l'enfant a son reveil [06:11]
No. 7: Funerailles [11:00]
No. 8: Miserere [04:00]
No. 9: Andante lagrimoso [07:04]
No. 10: Cantique d'amour [06:35]

Brigitte Engerer (piano)

Recorded 04/2010

Along with the "annees de pelerinage", the "harmonies poetiques et religieuses" is the most important cycle Liszt composed for the piano. It reveals his mystical dimension, at once poetic and religious, through reference to the universal poetry of Lamartine.
Liszt transposes his verse into music that is glorious yet intimate, tormented yet soothing, served here by the humanist vision of Brigitte Engerer.