Liszt - Impromptu, S191ii (Cohen)

Considering the only other scored video of this work on YouTube contained a downright shameful performance, I thought it would be worth scoring the work with Arnaldo Cohen’s intense rendition. The Impromptu (1872) stands on the threshold of the extraordinary avant-garde world of Liszt’s final years, and although the piece is cast in F-sharp, there is a colourful ambiguity in some of the harmonic movement. The revised version (played here) allows for a more effective climax, and a particularly serene ending.