IDAGIO | Schumann: Piano Quartet, Op. 47 - Thalberg: Piano Trio, Op. 69 801890021126

Featuring

Jaap Schröder
Daniel Foster
Enid Sutherland
Penelope Crawford
Atlantis Ensemble
Atlantis Trio

Robert Schumann
Sigismond Thalberg

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Instruments

The fortepiano used for the Thalberg piece is an Érard piano, #10518, built around 1868 in London, which features the double-escapement action and agraffe.

Instruments

The fortepiano used for the Schumann piece is a Conrad Graf grand piano, Opus 2148, built around 1835, which was restored after being found in Sweden.

Composer Biography

Sigismond Thalberg, whose Piano Trio in A Major, Op. 69 is featured, was famously involved in a piano contest with Liszt in Paris in 1837.

Composition History

Robert Schumann's Piano Quartet in E-Flat Major, Op. 47, was created in 1842, a year he devoted to chamber music, producing six significant compositions in six months.

Performer Biography

Penelope Crawford, the fortepianist on this album, is internationally acclaimed as one of America's master performers on historical keyboard instruments.

Recording & Production

This album is dedicated as a tribute to Professor John Daverio, a musicologist specializing in Robert Schumann, who contributed notes for this recording before his untimely death in 2003.

Performer Biography

Jaap Schröder, the violinist, is a distinguished Dutch musician and pedagogue who has engaged in research into violin literature of the 17th and 18th centuries.