Resignation is the keynote of the old Liszt’s compositional style. As a young pianist and then composer, he had travelled all across Europe and had created some of the most important works of the 19th century: he was universally celebrated. By this time, however, success had stopped to motivate him; he had withdrawn from public life and renounced glamour. He was searching for a way to express the deepest emotions with a single harmony, a single voice, the sigh of two notes. At their special concert, András Szalai and Balázs Fülei will perform some of the composer’s late piano pieces as cimbalom and piano arrangements. The sound of the cimbalom was particularly important to Liszt, who saw it as a symbol of his Hungarian identity, and its characteristic sound and performance mode inspired him to experiment with new ways of playing his own instrument, the piano. Playing material from their record, En Rêve – Liszt Inspirations, the two artists will give new meanings to the late pieces with their arrangements and transform the evening into a musical meditation.