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Release Date: 23 October 2026
Label: Outhere / Alpha
Packaging Type: Digipak
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 3701624511435
Genres: Classical Solo Instrumental
Composer/Series: Loving Schumann
Description
A recognised specialist in the music of Robert Schumann (he recorded the complete works for solo piano between 2000 and 2010 for Alpha Classics), the French pianist Eric Le Sage has devised this programme as a tribute to those who loved Schumann and to the woman he loved: Clara Wieck, of course - who would go on to become Clara Schumann despite her father's opposition to their marriage - but also Johannes Brahms, Gabriel Faure and Camille Saint-Saens. Alongside their Variations on a Theme by Schumann, we find music by Robert, who also wrote Variations on a Theme by Clara Schumann, as well as two piano transcriptions of his Lieder, including the famous Du bist wie eine Blume, completed the day before their wedding.
Benjamin Appl, James Baillieu
La Tempete; Simon-Pierre Bestion
Cyrille Dubois; Pierre Dumoussaud; Brussels Philharmonic
Anne-Sophie Mutter
Alena Baeva; Vadym Kholodenko
Thomas Dunford
Tonhalle-Orchester Zurich; Paavo Jarvi
Frankfurt Radio Symphony; Alain Altinoglu
Eric Le Sage
Eric Le Sage
Eric Le Sage
Eric Le Sage
