Liszt Mephisto Waltz No. 1 S. 514 Valentina Lisitsa

From Liszt s own program notes : There is a wedding feast in progress in the village inn, with music, dancing, carousing. Mephistopheles and Faust pass by, and Mephistopheles induces Faust to enter and take part in the festivities. Mephistopheles snatches the fiddle from the hands of a lethargic fiddler and draws from it indescribably seductive and intoxicating strains. The amorous Faust whirls about with a fullblooded village beauty in a wild dance; they waltz in mad abandon out of the room, into the ope br, br,