Along with the Années de pèlerinage, the Harmonies poétiques et religieuses is the most important cycle Liszt composed for the piano. It reveals his mystical dimension, at once poetic and religious, through reference to the universal poetry of Lamartine. Liszt transposes his verse into music that is glorious yet intimate, tormented yet soothing, served here by the humanist vision of Brigitte Engerer.