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Schumann: Piano Works
Piano Classics

Schumann: Piano Works

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Composer
SCHUMANN, CLARA
Artist
Domenico Codispoti
Format
CD
Label
Piano Classics
Released
Nov 01, 2019
Catalog #
PCL10193
UPC
5029365101936

About

'Domenico Codispoti plays with a warmth and fervor worthy of Cortot himself,' according to the veteran Gramophone piano critic Bryce Morrison. 'His sonority, too, has an Arrau-like fullness and richness.' Born in 1975, Codispoti has a growing discography of Romantic-era music including the piano works of Cesar Franck on Piano Classics (PCL0052): a 'most distinguished and enterprising recital' according to Gramophone, in which 'Codispoti gives us an impetus and virtuosity to set pulses racing.' Now he turns his attention to music from the other end of the Romantic era, composed by a figure even more significant in the history of the piano and pianists, Clara Wieck Schumann. A leading pianist of her day, the wife of one great composer and the intimate friend of another, Clara was also mother to eight children, a serious composer and a hugely influential teacher during the course of a career in the public eye spanning over 60 years. We may view Clara now as a strikingly independent woman, a woman of her time yet one who worked tirelessly against the grain of assumption and prejudice. It is right, therefore, that her art should be so celebrated 200 years after her birth in Leipzig. Her gifts as a creator that were much admired at the time, not only by her husband but by Franz Liszt, the greatest virtuoso of his day. It was Liszt who had created the modern concept of the solo piano recital in 1840, but he retired from performance soon afterwards, and Clara was the one who created the image of the modern pianist. On this new album, Codispoti performs a prodigiously accomplished set of Soirees Musicales, Op.6, published while Clara was still a teenager; the strikingly mature trio of Romances written before she turned 20; a G minor Sonata dating from the time just before and after her marriage to Robert; and finally the Variations on a theme by Robert which she composed to celebrate her husband's 42nd birthday in 1853. Thus, unlike many previous compilations of her music, Codispoti surveys her output in the round, and allows us to hear it mature even as she found herself given fewer and fewer opportunities to exercise her own creative gifts. With performances of tremendous sweep and conviction it makes for a highly persuasive introduction to Clara's music.

Tracklist 14 tracks

  1. 1 No. 1. Romance in E-Flat Minor 03:16
    Track
    1
    Title
    No. 1. Romance in E-Flat Minor
    Duration
    03:16
    Composer
    Clara Schumann
    Performer
    Domenico Codispoti
  2. 2 No. 2. Romance in G Minor 05:20
    Track
    2
    Title
    No. 2. Romance in G Minor
    Duration
    05:20
    Composer
    Clara Schumann
    Performer
    Domenico Codispoti
  3. 3 No. 3. Romance in A-Flat Major 04:09
    Track
    3
    Title
    No. 3. Romance in A-Flat Major
    Duration
    04:09
    Composer
    Clara Schumann
    Performer
    Domenico Codispoti
  4. 4 I. Allegro 08:00
    Track
    4
    Title
    I. Allegro
    Duration
    08:00
    Composer
    Clara Schumann
    Performer
    Domenico Codispoti
  5. 5 II. Adagio 02:50
    Track
    5
    Title
    II. Adagio
    Duration
    02:50
    Composer
    Clara Schumann
    Performer
    Domenico Codispoti
  6. 6 III. Scherzo 02:23
    Track
    6
    Title
    III. Scherzo
    Duration
    02:23
    Composer
    Clara Schumann
    Performer
    Domenico Codispoti
  7. 7 IV. Rondo 05:07
    Track
    7
    Title
    IV. Rondo
    Duration
    05:07
    Composer
    Clara Schumann
    Performer
    Domenico Codispoti
  8. 8 I. Toccatina 01:57
    Track
    8
    Title
    I. Toccatina
    Duration
    01:57
    Composer
    Clara Schumann
    Performer
    Domenico Codispoti
  9. 9 II. Notturno 04:46
    Track
    9
    Title
    II. Notturno
    Duration
    04:46
    Composer
    Clara Schumann
    Performer
    Domenico Codispoti
  10. 10 III. Mazurka 03:22
    Track
    10
    Title
    III. Mazurka
    Duration
    03:22
    Composer
    Clara Schumann
    Performer
    Domenico Codispoti
  11. 11 IV. Ballade 06:16
    Track
    11
    Title
    IV. Ballade
    Duration
    06:16
    Composer
    Clara Schumann
    Performer
    Domenico Codispoti
  12. 12 V. Mazurka 02:12
    Track
    12
    Title
    V. Mazurka
    Duration
    02:12
    Composer
    Clara Schumann
    Performer
    Domenico Codispoti
  13. 13 VI. Polonaise 03:28
    Track
    13
    Title
    VI. Polonaise
    Duration
    03:28
    Composer
    Clara Schumann
    Performer
    Domenico Codispoti
  14. 14 Variations on a Theme by Robert Schumann, Op. 20 11:15
    Track
    14
    Title
    Variations on a Theme by Robert Schumann, Op. 20
    Duration
    11:15
    Composer
    Clara Schumann
    Performer
    Domenico Codispoti