Liszt: Sonetto 104 del Petrarca - Derek Wang |
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Description: This piece, from Liszt's "Années de pèlerinage, Second Year: Italy," is based on a poem by the Italian poet Petrarch. I am 12 years old in this recording. English translation of the sonnet: "Warfare I cannot wage, yet know not peace; I fear, I hope, I burn, I freeze again; Mount to the skies, then bow to earth my face; Grasp the whole world, yet nothing can obtain. His prisoner Love nor frees, nor will detain; In toils he holds me not, nor will release; He slays me not, nor yet will he unchain; No joy allows, nor lets my sorrows cease. Sightless, I see my fair; through mute, I mourn; I scorn existence, and yet court its stay; Detest myself, and for another burn; By grief I'm nurtured; and, though tearful, gay; Death I despise, and life alike I hate: Such, lady, dost thou make my wayward state!" 
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