Robert Schumann Piano Concerto & Violin Concerto Klara Min, Nicolas Dautricourt, Manchester Camerat & Gábpr Takács-Nagy

• Robert Schumann (1810 - 1856): Piano Concerto in A Minor, Op. 54:
• 1 Schumann: Piano Concerto in A Minor, Op. 54 - Allegro affettuoso 15:10
• 2 Schumann: Piano Concerto in A Minor, Op. 54 - Intermezzo: Andantino grazioso 05:02
• 3 Schumann: Piano Concerto in A Minor, Op. 54 - Allegro vivace 11:00
• Violin Concerto in D minor, WoO 1:
• 4 Schumann: Violin Concerto in D minor, WoO 1 - In kräftigem, nicht zu schnellem Tempo 15:13
• 5 Schumann: Violin Concerto in D minor, WoO 1 - Langsam 06:56
• 6 Schumann: Violin Concerto in D minor, WoO 1 - Lebhaft, doch nicht schnell 09:29
• Total Runtime 01:02:50

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Robert Schumann’s Piano Concerto in A minor, Op. 54, completed in 1845, opened up a new concept of piano concerto. In lieu of virtuosic pyrotechnics of the Romantic concertos, Schumann’s piano concerto demands from the piano soloist a subtler and higher level of musicianship to be intimately interplayed with the orchestra. This concerto was one of the finest fruits he bore from the happy and productive years from 1840-1845. In this period, he produced works at largerscale forms such as symphonies, oratorios, concertos, and chamber music, and the piano concerto was the first of those attempts.

After the love of Schumann and Clara was consummated in their marriage in 1840 much to the chagrin of Clara’s father Wieck, Clara urged Schumann to write more ambitious music. She wrote “Don’t take it amiss if I tell you I’ve been seized by the desire to encourage you to write for orchestra. Your imagination and your spirit are too great for the weak piano.” Before 1840, Schumann focused exclusively on songs and piano works. With the support and encouragement of Clara, he embarked on several ambitious compositional projects in this most productive period of his life, which yielded the masterworks including the “Spring” Symphony, the Oratorio “Paradise and Peri,” the String Quartets, Op 41, the Piano Quartet and Quintet in Eb major. Filled with the passionate love for his wife, he first envisioned writing his first symphony and dedicating it to her. He wrote on his diary in 1840 “My next symphony will be called ‘Clara’ and in it I will paint her portrait with flutes, oboes, and harps.” However, in a few weeks, he changed his mind and decided to compose instead Fantasy for Piano and Orchestra in A minor to express his love for her. He permeated the work with a prominent ‘Clara’ theme played by an oboe with the anagram of C-H-A-A, which stands for the Italian spelling of her nname CHiArA. In the past, Schumann had made several attempts to write a piano concerto, but had not met with success. In 1841, with a renewed confidence in his musical style and compositional technique, he was able to complete the Concerto Fantasy in one movement modeled on Schubert’s Wanderer Fantasy. ...

Klara Min, piano
Nicolas Dautricourt, violin
Manchester Camerat
Gábpr Takács-Nagy, conductor

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