The young pianist Florent Ling invites us to follow him through the exploration of two pages marked by grief. In his Pictures at an Exhibition, Mussorgsky transcribes into music the impression made on him by some of the paintings of Hartmann, a painter who had just died and to whom this exhibition was a tribute. As for Liszt's Ballade No. 2, it is a musical transcription of the mythological drama of Hero and Leander, two lovers with an - obviously - tragic fate.

Franz Liszt : Ballade No. 2 in B minor, S. 171

Modest Mussorgsky : Pictures at an Exhibition