Argentinian pianist Nelson Goerner first recorded Liszt’s mighty B Minor Sonata in 2018, preceded on that album by the fiery, virtuosic 12 Transcendental Studies. This time, however, we approach this Everest of piano works via the foothills of some of Liszt’s loveliest, more poetic solo pieces. Opening the programme are the three Petrarch settings from Book II of the Années de pèlerinage—the dream-like, passionate No. 123 seems to foreshadow the more ardently romantic parts in the first half of the Sonata. Here, and in the Sonata itself, Goerner couples a prodigious technique with a profound depth of tone and gripping dramatic arc. After the Sonata’s hushed opening, its first movement is thrilling, wild even, but it also has a measured quality about it, and every note is articulated with crystal clarity. Two of Liszt’s more light-hearted works complete this Lisztian adventure, the Hungarian Rhapsody No. 6 providing the barnstorming finale.