Three great composers are fighting the ghosts of their past… giving rise to their innermost thoughts in their music. At an advanced age, Liszt transforms his early piano masterpiece La Vallée d’Obermann, associating its meanings with Ovid’s confessional poetry. Schnittke transforms his tenebrous Trio for violin, viola and cello into a piano trio and dedicates it to the doctor who had saved his life. Mendelssohn chooses to climax the finale of his second Trio in an apotheosis of the old Lutheran hymn “O Jesus Christ, All Praise to Thee”.