Translations:Franz Liszt/36/en

The climax of Liszt’s life’s work was the oratorio Christus. The thirteenth section of this work is an Eastern hymn. Its energies focus the victory of the Christ. The fourteenth section of the oratorio is called “Resurrexit!” (“He Is Risen”). It is the cycle of fourteen, because it is the mastery of the fourteen stations of the cross that enables us to receive the reward of the resurrection flame. You hear the energies of this fiery spiral of the threefold flame blending into the pearly white radiance in this music. In the final strains of The Christos we hear what the triumph can be in the individual soul of the resurrection of energies in the triumph of selflessness.