Dag Achatz performs this Liszt programme on Liszt's own instrument — a unique connection to the composer's sound world. The programme spans Liszt's output from the famous salon pieces to his remarkable late style. The Consolation No.3, Liebestraum No.3 and Hungarian Rhapsody No.3 represent the popular Liszt. The Ballade No.2 in B minor is a substantial, dramatic work of great expressive range. Les jeux d'eau à la Villa d'Este (1877) is a pioneering piece of musical Impressionism that influenced Ravel and Debussy. The late works — Nuages gris, En rêve, La lugubre gondola No.2 and Am Grabe Richard Wagners — are austere, visionary and deeply personal, written in old age with extraordinary harmonic daring.