Clara & Robert Schumann

Featuring

Florian Glemser
Sophie Wang
Clara Schumann
Robert Schumann
Albert Dietrich
Heinrich Wilhelm Ernst

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Performer Biography

Sophie Wang, the violinist on this album, made her debut at the Festspielhaus Baden-Baden at the age of ten and has since performed in major concert halls across Europe and Asia.

Instruments

Sophie Wang performs on a F. Gagliano violin from 1775, made in Naples, which is on loan from the CHIMEI Foundation.

Performer Biography

Florian Glemser, the pianist, began piano lessons at age three and made his orchestral debut at seven, later winning the Soloist Prize of the Würzburg Jazz Initiative.

Composer's Artistic Vision

The album explores whether the Schumanns' Düsseldorf circle, including Robert and Clara Schumann, Albert Dietrich, Johannes Brahms, and Joseph Joachim, fostered magnificent masterpieces through mutual inspiration.

Composition History

All chamber music works on this album were composed between 1849 and 1854, during the Schumanns' time in Düsseldorf.

Interpretation

The performers, Sophie Wang (violin) and Florian Glemser (piano), aim to make the special moods arising from the biographical relationships between the composers palpable to the listener.