Liszt - Années de pèlerinage. Première année: Suisse, S. 160 [André Laplante]

Années de pèlerinage. Première année: Suisse, S. 160 (1848-54) (Years of Pilgrimage. First Year: Switzerland) I. Chapelle de Guillaume Tell (The Chapel of William Tell) [0:07] II. Au lac de Wallenstadt (At Lake Wallenstadt) [6:17] III. Pastorale [9:19] IV. Au bord d’une source (Beside a Spring) [11:07] V. Orage (Storm) [15:08] VI. Vallée d’Obermann (Obermann’s Valley) [19:34] VII. Eglogue (Eclogue) [32:51] VIII. Le mal du pays (Homesickness) [36:44] IX. Les cloches de Genève: Nocturne (The Bells of Geneva: Nocturne) [42:48] A suite for solo piano by Hungarian composer Franz Liszt (1811-1886), which is in part a revision of his earlier work “Album d’un voyageur“. The title “Années de pèlerinage“ refers to the Bildungsroman “Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre“ by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, and there are numerous other literary allusions throughout the suite. Liszt wrote the following introduct