Arthur Hinnewinkel, Sinfonia Varsovia & Marc Coppey - Schumann: Works for Piano & Orchestra (2025) [Hi-Res]

lthough Arthur Hinnewinkel has chosen Robert Schumann, one of the most tormented composers in history, as the sole emblem of his first recording, he nonetheless radiates serenity and simplicity. His artistic commitment is bathed in a form of obviousness, the logical outcome of a career he has never planned in terms of objectives. Instead, he has followed the rhythm of his passion alone, of an eagerness to play and share, which cannot be decided at the snap of a finger but is patiently built in the slow pace of daily practice and childhood transformations. Arthur Hinnewinkel was born into a family where music was omnipresent; his father was a classical and jazz guitarist who took his family to a succession of more or less exotic spots: the United States, Switzerland, the Pays de Gex... He was around six when he experienced his first thrills on the keyboard in Singapore. He remembers six particularly intense months in a Russian teacher’s class he attended just before the family left Asia to settle in the Paris suburbs: “I must have been ten years old, and her teaching was based on practising very challenging works, to help me progress more rapidly.”