Franz Liszt - Variations on Weinen, Klagen, Sorgen, Zagen, S.180 (Yudina)

Franz Liszt (1811 - 1886)
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Variations on Weinen, Klagen, Sorgen, Zagen, S.180 (1862)
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Maria Yudina (1899 - 1970)
Recorded in 1950
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Variations on Weinen, Klagen, Sorgen, Zagen, S.180, is a variation set written for solo piano by Franz Liszt in 1862.
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Liszt took the chromatic bass line from the opening chorus of Bach's Cantata No. 12 and the very similar part from the Crucifixus of Bach's B-minor Mass as the basis for the work, which began life as a relatively simple prelude for solo piano in 1859. The text for the chorus begins "Tears, complaints, care, fear, anguish, and stress are the bitter bread of Christians," and when Liszt's daughter Blondine died in 1862 he expanded the prelude into an extended elegy, a set of 30 variations using the sinking chromatic line much as Bach would have in a passacaglia, a Baroque form of continuous variation.
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Proper description and timestamps coming soon