Reinbert de Leeuw is well known as a pianist and conductor of contemporary music and Vera Beths is one of the most important Dutch violinists of the first post-war generation.

Via Crucis is one of Reinbert de Leeuw’s favorite pieces. In an interview in 2002 he said that a in the Fourth Station was ‘the most beautiful note’ in the history of music. In that same year he performed for the first time the solo piano version that he would go on to feature more often in recitals.