Pianist Daniel Levy has devoted his life and career to studying the piano works, chamber music with piano, lieder, and works for piano and orchestra of Robert Schumann.
Composer's Artistic Vision
Robert Schumann's intuitive genius shared the futuristic vision of David's League, a symbolic bastion of profound values in Art and Life, opposed to Philistinism.
Composer Biography
Clara Wieck, later Clara Schumann, was the muse for much of Robert Schumann's impassioned music, including piano pieces, lieder, trios, quartets, symphonies, and concerts.
Composition History
Clara Schumann's Variations on a theme by Robert Schumann op. 20, composed in 1853, use the same theme as Johannes Brahms's op. 9 variations.
Interpretation
Daniel Levy's interpretation of Schumann's Piano Concerto was reviewed by Julian Haylock in BBC Music Magazine as "An all-time great recording...lovingly phrased and exultantly voiced."
Compositional Technique
Clara Schumann's piano transcriptions of her husband Robert's songs stick closely to the original score, preserving their restrained beauty and becoming "songs without words."
Recording & Production
This album was recorded at Rosslyn Hill, London (UK) and Chiesa di San Martino (Ronco sopra Ascona), Switzerland.
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