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
Murau Christmas Brass; Ranten Vocal Quartet; Ranten Choir; The Brunner Sisters; 'Kaisser-Stroandl'
Oliver Triendl; Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin; Anna Skryleva
Tomasz Konieczny; Vera-Lotte Boecker; Herbert Lippert; Wolfgang Bankl; Daniel Jenz; Stephanie Houtz
Frank Dupree; ORF Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra; HK Gruber
Sofja Gulbadamova
Orf Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra; Markus Poschner
Jelka Weber; Jan Vogler; Marketa Janouskova; Albrecht Mayer; Andre Schoch; Kathi Wagner; Stefan Doh
Bruckner Orchester Linz; Markus Poschner
The Saint Louis Chamber Chorus, Diana Umali, Philip Barnes
Paolo Restani
Utrecht String Quartet, Ilona Timcenko
Trio Hermes/Ginevra Bassetti/ Francesca Giglio/Marianna Pulsoni
Simone Pierini
Reinhard Kluth
Ondrej Sindelar, Sergio Azzolini, Rosonanza Praga
Maria Umbert Kimura, Somerville College Choir; Will Dawes
