According to some beliefs, during our lives we encounter doors, some leading toward the light and others toward the world of shadows. A question of choice. This disc opens the way toward both Inferno and Paradise. The paths taking us to Hades are represented by three scores, focused from different realities. Liszt’s Vallée d’Obermann is a work dealing with spiritual decay and desperation, about questions with no answers. This desolation is shown musically in a descending theme opening with a chromatic semitone, symbol of plaint. With a similarly strong emotional charge, the music of Liszt’s Funérailles recalls the funereal tolling of bells, filled with grief. The bitter pain of death. No place for light. In the “lacrimoso” Liszt’s soul weeps and implores. Miguel Bustamante’s Diabolus in musica alludes to the devil with the much-feared tritone – diminished fifth or augmented fourth as the occasion requires – an interval considered sinister since the Middle Ages: a constant creation of tension, overwhelming and implacable.