Echoes in the Mists by Tae-Hyung Kim is a poetic journey through a century of piano music, tracing a line from early Romanticism to early modernism. The album opens with Franz Liszt's masterful transcriptions of Schubert's songs – works that preserve the lyrical intimacy of the original lieder while expanding their expressive possibilities at the piano. These include Frühlingsglaube, Ständchen by Shakespeare, and excerpts from Die schöne Müllerin, in which Liszt illuminates Schubert's emotional worlds with refined pianistic coloring and occasional virtuosic flair. Central to the program are Robert Schumann's Waldszenen, a deeply introspective cycle in which nine miniatures form an imaginative, poetic walk through an inner forest – alternating between joy, mystery, tenderness, and melancholy. Through this selection, Kim makes audible the closely interwoven soundscapes of Schubert, Schumann, and Liszt, demonstrating both continuity and development within the Romantic tradition. The second half of the album shifts to a different aesthetic with Leoš Janáček's V mlhách (In the Mist), composed in 1912 – a work marked by personal grief and the composer's search for a condensed form of expression in his late style. The four movements form a single psychological landscape shrouded in mist, where fragmentary motifs, speech-like rhythms, and shifting tonal colors create a fragile, introspective atmosphere. Though faint traces of Debussy's influence can be heard – particularly in the luminous opening and closing movements – the music remains unmistakably Janáček in its tension, fatalism, and emotional directness. By juxtaposing these radically different composers, Kim creates an album that reflects the shift in piano writing from Romantic lyricism to early modern expression, inviting listeners to hear how echoes from the past resonate in evolving musical languages.