Yaara Tal - Love? Homage to Clara Schumann (2019) [Hi-Res]

13 September 2019 marks the 200th birthday of Clara Schumann, one of the most important musicians of the 19th century: a virtuoso pianist and composer, more and more of whose works are now being recorded. The pieces on this album, which has been intelligently compiled by pianist Yaara Tal, tell their own story of the friendships and impossible loves which gravitated around the Schumanns.


Pianists Yaara Tal and Andreas Groethuysen, the tenor Julian Pregardien and the Bavaria Radio Choir led by Yuval Weinberg go through Clara's works (her Three Romances, Op.11), and the young Brahms (the Variations on a theme by Schumann and a curious arrangement for tenor, female choir and piano from the famous Alto Rhapsody). To round off the circle of artists that the Schumanns had assembled around themselves, we also hear pieces from the composer Julie von Webenau, who studied under Mozart's son before studying with the Schumanns, and also Theodor Kirchner, who was briefly taught by Robert, and then Clara's partner. He would also dedicate to her his Preludes, Op.9. A prolific composer, he left behind compositions for the piano, the organ, and pages of chamber music. © François Hudry/Qobuz

Yaara Tal, Klavier
Andreas Groethuysen, Klavier
Julian Pregardien, Tenor
Damen des Chores des Bayerischen Rundfunks
Yuval Weinberg, Dirigent