Timothy Young and Paavali Jumppanen  piano duo

Liszt  Faust Symphony

Liszt wrote A Faust Symphony; Three Character Pictures, Faust, Gretchen and Mephistopheles, after Goethe in 1854, adding a triumphant choral finale later. His version for two pianos appeared eight years later. Faust’s first theme employs one of the earliest 12-tone rows in history; the second movement portrays Faust’s yearning for Gretchen; whilst the third characterizes Mephistoles as a spirit of negation with no themes of his own – just transformations and distortions from the first two movements.