Clara Wieck-Schumann & Robert Schumann: Piano Concertos (CD)

Composers: Clara Wieck-Schumann, Robert Schumann
Artist: Beatrice Rana, Chamber Orchestra of Europe
Conductor: Yannick Nézet-Séguin
Number of Discs: 1
Label: Warner Classics
Release Date: January 12, 2023

Beatrice Rana plays Clara Wieck-Schumann and Robert Schumann’s piano concertos with the Chamber Orchestra of Europe under conductor Yannick Nézet-Séguin. 

In an interview with the New York Times, Rana, who called the piano concerto by Clara Wieck “a genius work in many ways,” said: “I think that it’s very, very underestimated – the intellectual value of this concerto in the history of music. It’s fascinating to see that she conceived of this music free from any limitations; that as a teenager she composed an uninterrupted concerto with no breaks between the movements. We think of Liszt’s First Piano Concerto as revolutionary in that regard, but Clara wrote hers so much earlier, unbroken and with connecting themes linking the movements.”

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