Gretchen am Spinnrade (Gretchen at the Spinning Wheel) performed live by Georgi Slavchev

In this Schubert original, Liszt has combined the voice and piano in a piece only for solo piano. Gretchen is singing at her spinning wheel while thinking of Faust and all that he promises. At the climax of the piece, the piano stops as Gretchen becomes overly distracted by the thought of Faust's kiss. Gretchen's infatuation is alluded to not only by constancy of the spinning, but also by the repetition of the first stanza periodically throughout the song and the emphatic repetition of the final stanza three times.

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[jadujen]

this is a beautiful song, and I love the piano version of it much more than the vocal version!

[beethovenboy]

I've never heard this as a piano solo, sounds nice!

[38constantin]

So beautiful !!!