A much-loved artist and indeed polymath provides the season opener with a characteristically varied programme, beginning with music by a Catalan composer he has championed, and including one of his own works for piano – a look into the past dating from 2019. Of a previous traversal of the Liszt pieces, The Guardian praised his ‘spellbinding aura of intimacy’ and a ‘simply blistering account of the sonata with its elements of fantasy.’