Un Sospiro
I occasionally hop on the mic here and say “disregard everything I’ve said before about listening to something, you simply have to listen to this.” Well, this “this” is the best “this” (or at least most classic) that I’ve yet come up with. It is: Liszt’s “Un Sospiro” from Trois Études de Concert, performed by Jakob Gimpel. I liked the YouTube comment from user cheries5:
I will never forget studying with Jakob Gimpel. He was old then, but just as brilliant. Not an easy guy to get along with, sometimes, especially for the men folk, but increased my technique by 300%.
That said, holy arpeggios with interspersed, crossed over melody lines.