Clara & Robert Schumann

Featuring

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

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Composition History

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

Performer Biography

Florian Glemser, an enthusiastic jazz fan, also made a name for himself as a jazz pianist in his youth, winning the Soloist Prize of the Würzburg Jazz Initiative.

Instruments

Sophie Wang performs on a F. Gagliano violin from 1775, on loan from the CHIMEI Foundation.

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.

Performer Biography

Pianist Florian Glemser, born into a musical family, received his first piano lessons from his mother at age three and made his concert debut at seven.

Performer Biography

Sophie Wang, a violinist born in Taiwan in 1999, made her debut at the Festspielhaus Baden-Baden at the age of ten.

Interpretation

The performers, Sophie Wang and Florian Glemser, aim to make the special moods arising from the biographical connections between the composers palpable to the listener.