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Piano One of a pair of concerts by Pierre-Laurent Aimard celebrating the Liszt bicentenary. This typically inventive programme offers an opportunity to hear the composer s works alongside those by the great piano composers who followed him. After extracts from the pictorial Romanticism of the Annees de Pelerinage we hear Nenie by Bartok, Liszt s successor as the foremost Hungarian composer of his era. The concert continues with a pair of works by Liszt and Ravel which both seek to capture the beauty and movement of water. A contemporary work from award-winning Italian composer Marco Stroppa depicts a traditional ceremony from Easter Island and finally there is Liszt s portrait of St Francis of Assisi and a dazzling evocation of exotic birdsong by Messiaen, with whose music Aimard is strongly associated.