Liszt - Ballade Ukraine

"Ballade Ukraine" from Glanes de Woronince (Gleanings from Woronince) S. 249 (1847)

According to Leslie Howard:

"The original Ukrainian song behind [this Ballade] is a complicated tale of jealousy and revenge. Paraphrasing Roman Sawycky's 1984 article on the song in the second volume of his Liszt biography, Alan Walker gives its title as 'Hyrts, do not go to the party tonight' and describes the warning of a woman who refuses to share her lover with another, and the four days entailed in her preparations to murder him with poisoned herbs, gathered on Sunday, prepared on Monday, administered on Tuesday, with the desired effect on Wednesday. Liszt's beautiful setting of the tune distances itself from any sense of violence or outrage--probably because he was not conversant with the text."

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• liszt
• chopin

[xiangyik]

And some people claim Liszt is all bravura....

[tomekkobialka]

Liszt is brilliant! Thanks for posting!

[sammyspudd]

I love both Chopin and Liszt, but something about liszts pieces just hit me in the right spots :P

[ElFuroCrack]

This is incredibly beautiful .

[blindiris22]

@PrincessDesert thats agreeable, but there are many songs from each composer that is of similar styles. For instance, Chopin's Winter Wind, is something that i was surprised Liszt didn't write himself. Same with Chopin's Ocean. Songs even like this, also bear a resemblance to much of Chopins music. Regardless of these ideologies though, they are both fantastic composers and should be hailed as two of the greats.

[redshark618]

Wow up till now i did not know that Chopin and Liszt were opposite camps

[123papafrita]

I HAVE THE LINK FOR THIS MUSIC SHEET FEEL FREE TO CONTACT ME FOR IT THANK YOU VERY MUCH!!!

[PrincessDesert]

Liszt lovers accuse Chopin’s music of being dull, boring, cheap, lacking power and emotion, and predictable.

Chopin fans believe Liszt’s music to be incredibly shallow behind all its flashiness; to be superficial and trivial, masked by a virtuoso technique.

I think they're both polar opposites of each other (something like that) and if they knew of the divine technique of "fusion", they would have fused into Super Chopiszt, THE greatest

[avb20540]

@dinoswrawr You so funny bro haha!

[dinoswrawr]

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[avb20540]

Wow. This is beautiful. I've never heard of this piece before. Glad I stumbled upon it.

[44STYLE187]

@OverFjell

2:23 - 2:29 as well :-)