Dora Deliyska (b. 1980) is a Bulgarian concert pianist. She has a video of her performing most of this piece which can be viewed here: [ Ссылка ]

This is the 2nd version Liszt did of this piece, which isn't recorded as often as the first version. I originally used Leslie Howard's recording, but Hyperion didn't allow it. Then I used Valerie Tryon's recording, but Naxos blocked it after it received over 2000 views. So I searched for another one and found this one. This recording has become my favorite of the three.

The Miller and the Brook is the translation and it is a poem by Wilhelm Müller (1794-1827) which Schubert (1797-1828) used in his "Die schöne Müllerin" for piano and voice. Franz Liszt (1811-1886) took six of those 20 pieces and arranged them for piano solo, collectively known as "Müllerlieder."

James Leonard describes this piece as: The opening binary melody of the miller is spare to the point of severity, and its accompaniment is austere to the point of asceticism. It is music that embodies the silent and still sorrow of the grave. But the music changes when the brook sings, the mode changes from bleak minor to serene major, the austere accompaniment begins to flow in serene sextuplets, and the spare melody becomes an aria of utter perfection. It does not last: the miller sings his song again, almost the same minor-keyed song as he had sung at the song's opening, but the brook's serene sextuplets still flow beneath it, consoling him even in his despair. At the end, the music returns to the tonic major, flowing calmly and quietly to its close.

Thus the miller and his brook become one.

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