Clara Schumann: Piano Transcriptions

De Beenhouwer, Jozef

MDG 903 2115-6

Josef De Beenhouwer offers Clara Schumann and listening audiences a special gift on the occasion of the two hundredth anniversary of her birth: a CD including numerous recording premieres from this famous pianist’s extensive transcription oeuvre. He not only honors her compositional talent but also spotlights works with which she very deliberately and intensively occupied herself – and in the process very attractively nuances our picture of the musical Schumann family. • The focus is formed by selected songs by Robert Schumann. Thirty transcriptions in all were published during Clara’s lifetime, and eleven others were discovered and edited only a few years ago. De Beenhouwer’s choices drawing on both sources impressively demonstrate how skillfully Clara integrated the voice part into Robert’s piano parts, which often are quite complicated.

SACD

Muzyka klasyczna

MDG

03-06-2019

760623211565