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LISZT - Consolations S. 172 - Transcription for String Orchestra
Six Pensées poétiques
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Franz Liszt's Consolations S. 172 are some of the most touching and intimate Romantic pieces ever written. Unlike most of his other compositions, plenty with dramatic and extroverted virtuosic music, here Liszt gives us a sweet, gentle moment of almost religious contemplation, with a deep sense of awareness of the Self, and, more precisely, of the Self's emotional tenderness and mindfulness. He himself refers to his Consolations as "Pensées poétiques" (i.e., poetic "thoughts" or "meditations"), and fills them with some poignant and soulful music that grasps those aethereal things that cannot be put into words, but must not remain silent, and belong to the realm of the Spirit, the Giver of hope and comfort in times of despair. For it is through great sorrow that the soul gets to understand the deep meaning of Love and Life, and hence receives the relief it had been seeking.
This new version of Liszt’s Consolations aims to give them a new expressive musical language, shaping those intimate sacred thoughts through the transparent colour of a string orchestra with harp. These instruments can, in many ways, embody that sublime gentleness, that delicate force of the awaken soul, that delightful relief of true solace. It was written during the Covid-19 pandemic, a time of great sorrow, but also of immense spiritual growth, as it guided us to see Life differently, from a more conscious state of mind. Pain often hides its own relief; one must only learn to contemplate it to find the Consolation it contains.
—Daniel Cuéllar-Trujillo, 2022.
This orchestration was premiered on May 14th, 2022: cond. Daniel Cuéllar-Trujillo, Iberacademy Youth Orchestra, with special guests from the EAFIT Symphony Orchestra and the Medellín Philharmonic Orchestra; Auditorio Fundadores, EAFIT University, Medellín, Colombia.
Copyright © 2021 Daniel Cuéllar-Trujillo. All rights reserved. This work is registered with CopyrightHouse.org. Registration ID: 2157304
