Composer: Robert Schumann
Performer: Claire Désert
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Mirare
Catalogue: MIR520
Release: 2021
Size: 2 GB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: yes
Études symphoniques, Op. 13
01. Thème. Andante
02. Etude I. Un poco più vivo
03. Etude II
04. Etude III. Vivace
05. Etude IV
06. Etude V
07. Etude VI. Agitato
08. Etude VII. Allegro molto
09. Étude VIII
10. Étude IX. Presto possibile Étude IX. Presto possibile Étude IX. Presto possibile
11. Etude X
12. Etude XI
13. Étude XII. Allegro brillante
14. Variation posthume No. 1
15. Variation posthume No. 2 Work length
16. Variation posthume No. 3
17. Variation posthume No. 4
18. Variation posthume No. 5
Variations on a theme by Beethoven
19. Thème (After 7th Symphony’s second movement)
20. Étude 1: Un poco maestoso
21. Étude 2
22. Étude 3
23. Étude A7
24. Étude 7
25. Étude 6. Presto
26. Étude 5
27. Étude A6. Passionato
28. Étude 4. Molto moderato
29. Étude A11. Legato teneramente
30. Étude B5. Cantando
31. Étude B4
32. Étude A10. Prestissimo
33. Étude B7
34. Étude B3
Theme with Variations in E flat major WoO 24 (‘Geistervariationen’)
35. Tema. Leise, innig
36. Variation 1
37. Variation 2. Canonisch
38. Variation 33. Etwas belebter
39. Variation 4
40. Variation 5
From one recording to the next, French pianist Claire Désert continues her exploration of Schumann’s piano works with a new album focussed on the variation genre. She explores the manifold, elusive moods found in the “Symphonic Studies”, the “Etudes in Variation form on a Theme of Beethoven” and the “Geistervariationen” (Ghost Variations), like a diary of the composer. From a tribute to Beethoven to the ultimate variations composed right before sinking into the Rhine, it is all Romanticism that is sung by Schumann’s piano, with its breaks and ideals.