Traumerei Schumann

Johannes Brahms is an icon. Say Johannes, and you know you are talking about Brahms. The successor to Beethoven, the sober man who valued seriousness, the champion of classical traditions, a close friend of the Schumanns. But how well do we really know Brahms? How close does he let us get to him in his music? In his Requiem we go in search of the human Brahms and in the music of his mentor and good friend Robert Schumann.

Robert Schumann’s piano music defines Romanticism’s essence. Content, idea and mood dictate the form, rather than the other way around.Most of the major works draw inspiration from literature and aesthetic ideas, and often incorporate personal references. This especially holds true about DavidsbündlertänzeOp. 6. It may be the most daring, creative and unified of Schumann’s piano cycles. Certainly it is his most personal.

Immerse yourself in the enchanting world of Tiffany Poon, “ classical pianist of the new generation” , who makes her Pentatone debut with her album Diaries: Schumann.

Die späten 1830er-Jahre waren zwar eine schwierige Zeit im persönlichen Leben von Robert Schumann, doch es entstanden auch einige sehr brillante Klavierwerke.

In 2009, at the age of 19, Haochen Zhang became one of the youngest musicians ever to win the Van Cliburn International Piano Competition. Since then he has had a busy concert schedule, primarily in his native China and in the U.S.A. but also in Europe where he made his début at the BBC Proms in 2014. Recording has been less of a priority for Zhang, and it is only now that he releases his first studio album, recorded at the Reitstadel, the well-known audiophile venue in Neumarkt in Germany. For this recital, Haochen Zhang has devised a programme made up of works that he feels particularly close to.

The pianist Hans H. Suh presents both large and small works on his GENUIN CD with piano music ranging from Beethoven to Debussy. The winner of numerous international competitions, including the 2018 International German Piano Award, is a master of the moment as well as of sweeping lines: Schumann's, Beethoven's and Debussy's "little things," i.e., preludes, bagatelles, and other snapshots, shine with tremendous and enduring radiance. Suh brings Liszt's gigantic B minor Sonata into the present and lends it the magic of the moment. This combination of successful repertoire selection and exquisite interpretation invites more than just piano lovers on a virtuoso journey through time.

Following the release of The Complete Chamber Music Works of Johannes Brahms which has received critical acclaim, Pierre and Théo Fouchenneret have laid the foundation stone of a Schumann Collection with this inaugural volume dedicated to the composer’s violin works. To complement the trilogy of Sonatas for Violin and Piano is the Concerto, an essential link in the repertoire, performed with the collaboration of the Normandy Regional Orchestra and its musical director Jean Deroyer.

Brahms: Capriccio in B minor, Op. 76 No. 2; Brahms: Intermezzi (3), Op. 117; Brahms: Intermezzo in E major, Op. 116 No. 4; Debussy: Préludes - Book 1; Schumann: Kinderszenen, Op. 15.

Pianist Johanna Summer draws a wide spectrum across seven pieces from Robert Schumann's "Album for the Youth" and "Kinderszenen". With classical playing culture and the freedom of jazz.

Ron Adelaar is a Dutch-based pianist and composer of neoclassical, meditative piano compositions. Besides that he is A&R manager at Andante Piano, sublabel of Disruptive Records run by his son Ivo Adelaar. Ron had an early introduction to piano music, as he started his career at the age of 13 by playing the organ and piano at several churches in his hometown Amersfoort (The Netherlands), all together with his father Ton Adelaar who played the flute.