Composer: Robert Schumann
Performer: Danny Driver
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Hyperion
Catalogue: CDA67983
Release: 2014
Size: 1.03 GB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: yes
Klavierstücke, Op. 32
01. No 1 in F major. Markiert und kräftig
02. No 2 in D major. Äusserst rasch und mit Bravour
03. No 3 in D major. Leicht und mit Humor
04. No 4 in D major. Ballmässig, sehr munter
05. No 5 in D major. Rauschend und festlich
06. No 6 in A major. Sehr lebhaft, mit vielem Humor
07. No 7 in E major. Äusserst rasch
08. No 8 in F sharp minor. Sehr lebhaft
Nachtstücke, Op. 23
09. No 1 in C major. Mehr langsam, oft zurückhaltend
10. No 2 in F major. Markiert und lebhaft
11. No 3 in D flat major. Mit grosser Lebhaftigkeit
12. No 4 in F major. Einfach
Romances, Op. 28
13. No 2 in F sharp major. Einfach
In this new album Danny Driver brings his impeccable pianism, consummate style and imagination to Schumann’s Novelletten and Nachtstücke, less well-known sets from his extraordinary output for the piano.
Schumann wrote Nachtstücke, a set of four character pieces, upon the death of his brother, and would have entitled it ‘Corpse Fantasia’ were it not for Clara’s intervention. The eight pieces of the Novelletten form what is at once the largest and the least known among Schumann’s major piano cycles. The music itself is of consistently high quality (years later, Schumann himself still regarded this among his most successful works), and clearly written in an exultant mood.