Release Date: 12 January 2015
Label: Capriccio - Cd / Capriccio
Packaging Type: Jewel Case
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 845221052090
Genres: Classical
Composer/Series: Basque Songs
Description
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.
Tracklisting
Deutsche Staatsphilharmonie Rheinland-Pfalz; Chelsea Gallo
Fuchs/Schafer/Linos Ensemble
Murau Christmas Brass; Ranten Vocal Quartet; Ranten Choir; The Brunner Sisters; 'Kaisser-Stroandl'
Kinderchor der Deutschen Oper Berlin; Kammersymphonie Berlin; Irina Loskova; Elda Laro; Christian L
Deutsche Staatsphilharmonie Rheinland-Pfalz; Michael Francis
l'arte del mondo; Werner Ehrhardt
Houtzeel/Spencer
Oliver Triendl; Benedict Kloeckner; Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin; Markus L. Frank
Rolf Gupta & Oslo filharmonien
Ketil Bjornstad & Sandra Lied Haga
Vox Urbane
Sophie Dervaux, La Folia Barockorchester
Sergio Vartolo
Robert Plane (clarinet); Elias String Quaret, Gould Piano Trio; James Gilchrist (tenor); Tim Horton
Nordic Affect/Marco Casonato/Massimo Marchese/La Spagna baroque orchestra/Alejandro Marias
Michael Foyle, Iain Burnside
