Feux Follets (Wills o’ the Wisp) is the fifth étude of the set of twelve Transcendental Études by Franz Liszt. As with the other works in the Études but one, Feux Follets went through three versions, the first being Étude en douze exercices from 1826, the second being Douze études d’execution transcendante from 1837, and third, an 1851 revision of the 1837 set. It is this last version, from 1851, that is most often performed. Its rapid double-note passages in the right hand accompanied by wide broken intervals in the left are notoriously difficult to play. – Khatia Buniatishvili
Liszt by Buniathisvili
Rhapsody No. 2
Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2 in C-Sharp Minor
Dreams of Love
Liebesträume in A-Flat Major
Concerto No. 2
Concerto No. 2 in A Major
Feux Follets: Other Performances
Daniil Trifonov
Transcendental Etude No. 5 in B-Flat Major
Yuja Wang (14 years old)
Transcendental Etude No. 5 in B-Flat Major
Ivo Pogorelich
Transcendental Etude No. 5 in B-Flat Major