Clara Schumann: Piano Music, Vol. 1 Jean-Pierre Armengaud

• Clara Schumann (1819 - 1896): 3 Romances, Op. 21:
• 1 Schumann: 3 Romances, Op. 21: No. 1 in A Minor, Andante 05:43
• 2 Schumann: 3 Romances, Op. 21: No. 2 in F Major, Allegretto, Sehr zart zu spielen 01:25
• 3 Schumann: 3 Romances, Op. 21: No. 3 in G Minor, Agitato 05:05
• 3 Preludes and Fugues, Op. 16:
• 4 Schumann: 3 Preludes and Fugues, Op. 16: No. 1 in G Minor 04:04
• 5 Schumann: 3 Preludes and Fugues, Op. 16: No. 2 in B-Flat Major 04:27
• 6 Schumann: 3 Preludes and Fugues, Op. 16: No. 3 in D Minor 04:42
• Variations on a Theme by Robert Schumann, Op. 20:
• 7 Schumann: Variations on a Theme by Robert Schumann, Op. 20 12:13
• 3 Romances, Op. 11:
• 8 Schumann: 3 Romances, Op. 11: No. 1 in E-Flat Minor, Andante 03:29
• 9 Schumann: 3 Romances, Op. 11: No. 2 in G Minor, Andante - Allegro passionato 05:41
• 10 Schumann: 3 Romances, Op. 11: No. 3 in A-Flat Major, Moderato 05:01
• Scherzo No. 2 in C Minor, Op. 14:
• 11 Schumann: Scherzo No. 2 in C Minor, Op. 14 04:47
• Romance in A Minor, WoO 28:
• 12 Schumann: Romance in A Minor, WoO 28 04:56
• Prelude and Fugue in F-Sharp Minor:
• 13 Schumann: Prelude and Fugue in F-Sharp Minor 05:16
• Robert Schumann (1810 - 1856): Lieder-Album für die Jugend, Op. 79:
• 14 Schumann: Lieder-Album für die Jugend, Op. 79: No. 23, Er ist's (Arr. for Piano by Clara Schumann) 01:33
• Clara Schumann: Romance in B Minor:
• 15 Schumann: Romance in B Minor 06:04
• Total Runtime 01:14:26

Info for Clara Schumann: Piano Music, Vol. 1

Clara Schumann was one of the most famous piano virtuosos of the 19th century and was admired by contemporaries such as Franz Liszt and Sigismund Thalberg. Her piano works are never stereotypical and her Romances anticipate the sonority of Johannes Brahms' later piano music. Her Variations op. 20 combine Robert Schumann's themes with her own in music of touching intimacy. The Preludes and Fugues reflect Clara's love of Johann Sebastian Bach.

This first edition of her complete music for solo piano is performed by the renowned French pianist Jean-Pierre Armengaud, who has written about Robert and Clara Schumann and organised a symposium in their honour. Jean-Pierre Armengaud is recognised as a leading interpreter of French music and a specialist in impressionist and expressionist repertoire and is known for his ‘fluent and supple playing, his round and soft tone’ (Classica). He has made several complete recordings of piano music by Debussy, Satie, Roussel, Poulenc, Dutilleux and Denisov. Armengaud has performed in the world's major concert halls and has played in over 40 countries. He was programme director for music at Radio France and is an associate professor at the University of Paris-Sorbonne and professor emeritus at the University of Évry Val d'Essonne at the University of Paris-Saclay.

Jean-Pierre Armengaud, piano

Jean-Pierre Armengaud
For several decades Jean-Pierre Armengaud has pursued a particularly rich international career as a pianist and concert-performer, notable for the extent of his repertoire (from Bach to Boulez), by the number of countries to which he has been invited (more than 40) and the importance of his recordings which include five highly acclaimed editions of the complete works of French and Russian composers.

A pupil of Yves Nat and Jacques Février, and of the Russian Stanislav Neuhaus, Armengaud is today acknowledged as one of the great interpreters of French music from Rameau to Henri Dutilleux whose Préludes he has first performed in a number of countries. He has recorded the complete piano music of Satie for Mandala- Harmonia Mundi and some previously unavailable works for the Warner Classics set (awarded a Choc Classica in 2016), of Claude Debussy (as well as three CDs in the centenary complete works Debussy box, awarded a Choc Classica in 2018), of Albert Roussel, of Edison Denisov, the chamber music of Francis Poulenc and some 15 albums (including six for Naxos and Grand Piano) of Beethoven, Chopin, Scriabin, Prokofiev, Shostakovich, Szymanowski, Ravel, L. Aubert, Poulenc, Milhaud, Messiaen, Schoenberg, Stockhausen, Boulez and others.

As both a musicologist and a writer, Jean-Pierre Armengaud has been responsible for music on Radio France and is a distinguished scholar and teacher in universities and in masterclasses at major Conservatoires. His biography of Erik Satie, published by Fayard, was awarded the Prix des Muses, 2009, and he is author and editor of a book of essays, Claude Debussy : La trace et l’écart (published in 2018).

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