Zwei Liszt-Transkriptionen

Attempt to "push across" (trans-scribe) the two enigmas of old Liszt, standing like erratic blocks, but also like signposts to the Unknown in the musical landscape of the 19th century, to my own way of speaking, of thinking – to pull up the pieces again from my subconscious and turn them into sound as if through a dream filter in various degrees of reality (of "presence" and "absence"). The score is dedicated to Sándor Veress for his 80th birthday.

– Heinz Holliger