November 2026 sees the launch of our new collaboration with the Royal Northern College of Music. In five recitals across the 26/27 season, the RNCM’s leading pianists will present a rich and varied programme of piano music, showcasing the exciting talent of young emerging artists. To begin the series, **Edward Lloyd** performs one of Franz Liszt's most visionary, mystical cycles, which takes its inspiration from the poetry of Parisian Romanticism and traverses a vast emotional and spiritual landscape. From the grinding, deathly bells of Funérailles to the opulent and luminous tenderness of Bénédiction de Dieu dans la Solitude, we sense a monumental, epic narrative force—one which will reach far into the future, inspiring masterpieces like those of Richard Wagner with its scale and majesty. This concert will be preceded by a film discussing the works created by the performer. **Liszt** | Harmonies Poétiques et Religieuses, S.173 *Invocation* *Miserere, d’après Palestrina* *Pater Noster* *Hymne de l’enfant à son réveil* *Andante Lagrimoso* *Funérailles* *Pensée des morts* *Ave Maria* *Bénédiction de Dieu dans la solitude* *Cantique d’amour* Edward Lloyd • *piano*