Brahms & Schumann Paloma Kouider & Fanny Robilliard

• Robert Schumann (1810 - 1856): Violin Sonata No. 1 in A Minor, Op. 105:
• 1 Violin Sonata No. 1 in A Minor, Op. 105: I. Mit leidenschaftlichem Ausdruck 07:47
• 2 Violin Sonata No. 1 in A Minor, Op. 105: II. Allegretto 03:50
• 3 Violin Sonata No. 1 in A Minor, Op. 105: III. Lebhaft 05:26
• Clara Schumann (1819 - 1896):
• 4 Three Romances for Violin and Piano Op. 22: I. Andante molto 02:55
• Albert Hermann Dietrich (1829 - 1908):
• 5 F-A-E Sonata for Violin and Piano: I. Allegro 12:37
• Clara Schumann:
• 6 Three Romances for Violin and Piano Op. 22: II. Allegretto. Mit zartem Vortrage 02:44
• Johannes Brahms (1833 - 1897):
• 7 Violin Sonata No. 2 in A Major, Op. 100: I. Allegro amabile 07:59
• 8 Violin Sonata No. 2 in A Major, Op. 100: II. Andante tranquillo 06:05
• 9 Violin Sonata No. 2 in A Major, Op. 100: III. Allegretto grazioso (quasi Andante) 05:07
• Clara Schumann:
• 10 Three Romances for Violin and Piano Op. 22: III. Leidenschaftlich schnell 03:52
• Total Runtime 58:22

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From Brahms to Dietrich, violinist Fanny Robilliard and pianist Paloma Kouider conjure up the ghosts of the Schumanns’ destiny. The programme explores the works that left their mark on their existence, from the F-A-E Sonata to Brahms’ second Violin Sonata.

Behind these works one can see the existence of the piano virtuoso Clara Schumann appear. Linked by the A key, Clara’s key, both Schumann’s and Brahms’ sonatas bear the secret presence of their loved one, each revealing one aspect of passion. Indeed, the melancholic sway of Robert Schumann’s first Violin Sonata faces the radiant lyricism of Brahms’.

In this inextricable tangle, Fanny Robillard et Paloma Kouider set Clara Schumann at the centre of this album, not reducing her to her inspirational role, by adding her Three Romances to the programme. The backbone of this record, this work shows how strong were her creative forces as it builds this musical and poetic path.

Fanny Robilliard, violin
Paloma Kouider, piano

Fanny Robilliard
was born in 1987 in Lyon. She studied with Marianne Piketty at the Conservatoire National Supérieur, and got her diploma with unanimous recognition of the jury.


She first pursued her studies in Munich with Prof Ingolf Turban, and then at the Universität der Kunst in Berlin, where she enters in Konzertexam with Prof Nora Chastain.

At the same time she was admitted in the most prestigious orchestra academy in Germany, first at the Symphonieorchester des Bayerische Rundfunks Academy, and two years later to the famous Karajan Academy of the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra.


Together with playing in the orchestra through the whole season, she is led to work closely with many of the greatest artists, such as Simon Rattle, Mitsuko Uchida, Christian Tetzlaff, Reinhard Goebel and members of the Berlin Philharmonic for intensive workshops and concerts within the Karajan Academy.

Fanny Robilliard is the winner of french competition Appassionato 2006 in Caen, and a year later she is the first prize winner of Avignon International Violin Competition.


She is « Révélation Classique Adami » 2010.
As a soloist she appears several times with Orchestre de Caen, Orchestre des Régions Avignon- Provence, and more recently with the UDK Hochschule Orchester and Maestro Michail Jurowski, and Liban Philharmonic Orchestra.

In January 2015 she moves back to Paris, to join the Trio Karénine, with Louis Rodde (cello) and Paloma Kouider (piano).
The young ensemble has already won prestigious competitions, among them from the ARD Competition 2013. There carrer leads the trio to perform through the season and for summer festivals in France and abroad (Germany, Italy, Spain, England, Japan, China, Canada etc..).


Regular guests at famous venues such as La Roque d’Anthéron, Festival Montpellier Radio- France, Les Folles Journées Tokyo, Rencontres Musicales d’Evian.. they have been awarded the Nordmetall Preis for Ensemble from the Festspiele Mecklenburg-Vorpommen, for there performance of Schubert « Trout »Quintett alongside with Laurène Durantel and Krzysztof Chorzelski (Belcea Quartett).

Trio Karénine’s first record of Robert Schumann piano trios was released in april 2016 on french label Mirare.
It received five Diapasons d’Or, best critics and reviews.

Fanny Robilliard has been guest at the London Symphony Orchestra as a leader second violin, as well as co-soloist at the London Philharmonia Orchestra.


She is often asked to lead in independent ensembles such as Les Dissonances, and the European Camerata. Fanny Robilliard plays a violin from Nicolo Amati, 1627.

Paloma Kouider
Awarded « Révélation Classique » by Adami, laureate of the « Fondation Banque Populaire », the French pianist Paloma Kouider studied wih Serguei Markarov in Paris and Elisso Wirssaladze in Firenze before receiving the advice of Avedis Kouyoumdjian at the Universität für Musik und darstellende Kunst in Vienna.

Soon performing in renowned festivals, she did not forget to cultivate her other passion, Literature, which she studied in the Lycée Louis-le-Grand in Paris. A passion that is shared by her colleagues of the Trio Karénine, winner, among other prizes, of the 62th ARD Competition in Münich.

Some outstanding musical personnalities durably inspired her musical path : the Ysaÿe Quartet, Hatto Beyerle, Menahem Pressler, Alfred Brendel, Ferenc Rados, Jean-Claude Pennetier, Paul Badura-Skoda as well as Claude Helffer regarding contemporary music and Stéphane Béchy for the interpretation of baroque music.

Current and upcoming highlights include concerts in Paris’Auditorium du Louvre, Salle Pleyel, London’s Wigmore Hall, Saint-Petersburg’s Philharmonia, Hamburg’s Laeiszhall, Berlin’s Konzerthaus, Venice’s Palazetto Bru Zane… She regularly appears at international festivals such as Festival de Menton, Radio-France Montpellier, Aix-en-Provence, Saint-Petersburg Piano Festival, La Roque d’Anthéron, Tokyo’s Folles Journées … With her trio, she also took part to the prestigious ARTE program « Stars Von Morgen » in Berlin. They were awarded the prestigious « NORDMETALL – Prize » by the Mecklenburg-Vorpommern Festspiele.

Paloma premieres new music and works with composers like Fazil Say, Benoît Menut, Philippe Hersant, Eric Tanguy and Jean-Frédéric Neuburger.

As a chamber musician, apart from the Trio Karénine, she regularly shares the stage with cellists Aurélien Pascal and Anastasia Kobekina – with whom she was awared the André Hoffmann Prize in Gstaad’s Sommets musicaux – and the violinist Alexandra Soumm.

Paloma’ recording of Beethoven’s sonatas and Liszt’s Rhapsodies was awarded 5 Diapasons and 4 stars by Classica in addition of very enthusiastic critics. She released in 2017 a violin/piano recital with Fanny Robilliard on Evidence Classics and a French music program with her trio for Mirare.

Involved in charity projects aimed at creating opportunities through the arts, she founded with two friends a non-profit organization named Esperanz’Arts.

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