Dutch concert pianist Willem Brons is a national treasure, still performing in the famous Concertgebouw in his eighties and giving master classes as far afield as Japan. It was an honour to join him and the Leidse Cantorij under the direction of his nephew, Hans, to perform Liszt’s Via Crucis. In contrast to his more flamboyant style, Liszt’s stations of the cross are intimate and bare, sometimes with a single line in the piano. Willem’s rendition captured the intense suffering of Jesus and, at the end, the fragile gimmer of hope.