Pf: Misha Dichter

This fabulous recording happens to include the cadenza in the Neue Liszt-Ausgabe edition of this piece, as uploaded here by Liszthesis: [ Ссылка ] (Subscribe to their channel, they're awesome :D)

Rapsodie hongroise XIII has always been regarded, like number XI, as something of a connoisseur’s piece, so clearly is its virtuosity placed at the service of its musical poetry. After the melancholic introduction, the first theme comes from a song in the Szerdehalyi edition from the early 1840s, and the second theme, with its three-bar phrases and rising sevenths, comes from just the introduction to a traditional song first printed in 1846. The fast section opens with a theme apparently derived from a song in the Pannonia collection, known also through Sarasate’s use of it in Zigeunerweisen. The next theme, Un poco meno vivo, was printed in a different form in a Csárdás of 1848, but Liszt’s version may have come first. (A similar theme appears in the early Sonata for violin and piano of Bartók [1903].) The theme that arrives hard on its heels has since become very popular in Hungary, but may also originate with Liszt. The first of these themes is now varied in a notorious passage of repeated notes, and the music accelerates with the aid of the first of the fast themes to the coda, based on the third and first of them. At one point Liszt thought of introducing a cadenza in octaves just before the coda—based on the very opening of the work—but wisely thought better of it at the proof stage. (Leslie Howard)

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