Performer: Theodora Serbanescu-Martin, piano

Program Length: Approximately 90 minutes

Program

Franz Liszt (1811–1886)

Harmonies poétiques et religieuses (Complete Cycle)

This program presents Franz Liszt’s Harmonies poétiques et religieuses, a piece rarely performed in its entirety, and one of the most profound and personal cycles in the piano repertoire. Inspired by Romantic poetry and shaped by Liszt’s fascination with ritual, spirituality, and memory, these works explore prayer, mourning, and devotion as lived emotional experiences rather than religious doctrine. Love—of the divine, of the dead, of the absent—runs through the music as a sustaining force.