It's more than 15 years since Mitsuko Uchida released her only other disc of Schumann's solo piano music – a pairing of Kreisleriana and Carnaval. Since Schumann is obviously a composer with whom she ...
Robert Schumann's tragic life has long coloured our view of his music. But as pianist Jonathan Biss concludes a year long series of concerts, he finds a composer betrayed by his biography For most of ...
There is a satisfying breadth of phrasing to Lugansky’s Fantasie, along with a volatility that fits Schumann’s conception well. In the first movement his sound expands naturally into the most ...
You could make an argument for this duo as the two greatest piano compositions of the 19th century. They fit nicely on a single CD, yet they hardly ever turn up together. British pianist Paul Lewis’s ...
(In this third and final part of a series, pianist Jonathan Biss explores the idea of musical longing in Robert Schumann's music. Click the audio link above to hear Biss play Schumann and discuss the ...
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The pianist must have been raring to go when he launched into Chopin’s Preludes: just sample the third prelude’s brisk, mega-secure left-hand runs, No 8’s grand sweep and smart textural layering, the ...
His performing career was thwarted, but Schumann’s wild imagination and prolific output made his name as a great romantic. Schumann was the Romantic era’s gentle revolutionary. Although he was ...
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