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Clara & Robert Schumann
Clara Schumann, Robert Schumann

Sophie Wang & Florian Glemser

Clara & Robert Schumann

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Label: CAvi
UPC: 4260085534838
Catnr: AVI 8553483
Release date: 13 May 2022
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CAvi
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AVI 8553483
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13 May 2022
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CLARA & ROBERT SCHUMANN

"Are Schumann’s late works the product of a household where a physically and mentally declining composer and his wife, who refused to admit that reality, were living in a stuffy atmosphere? Or was Schumann’s Düsseldorf circle a fruitful terrain that gave rise to magnificent masterpieces because these close, talented friends – Robert Schumann, Clara Schumann, Albert Dietrich, Johannes Brahms, and Joseph Joachim – continually inspired one another?

For this recording, Sophie and I have chosen a programme that attempts to answer those questions. All the chamber music works on this CD are from the period between 1849 and 1854, thus stemming from the Schumanns’ time in Düsseldorf.

The personal and musical connections between Robert Schumann, Clara Schumann, Johannes Brahms, and Joseph Joachim are intrinsically present in all these works. Those biographical relationships are interesting for us as interpreters because they give rise to special moods we can sense in the music. We want to fathom them, to feel them, and to make them palpable for the listener: this is one of the most exciting projects we have ever undertaken as performers.

Clara Schumann: Three Romances op.22

“You can look forward to what is about to arrive,” Johannes Brahms promised Joseph Joachim, who received a copy of Clara Schumann’s Three Romances op.22 fresh off the press in January 1856, as a belated Christmas present. Clara had composed these three pieces in the summer of 1853. Robert had always found it difficult to accept his wife’s professional success. Although he took her seriously and appreciated her comments as a competent interlocutor, he regarded her first and foremost as a housewife and as the mother of their children. He nevertheless encouraged her to compose her own works, and she was always the first to judge his.

After a long hiatus, Clara composed several works in 1853, including these three romances for violin and piano. They show her at the height of her musical inspiration: these are three pieces brimming with charm, melodic nuance, ..."
© 2021 Florian Glemser

CLARA UND ROBERT SCHUMANN
"Sind Schumanns späte Werke das Produkt eines Haushalts, in dem ein körperlich und geistig abbauender Komponist und seine Frau, die sich weigerte, diese Realität anzuerkennen, in einer stickigen Atmosphäre lebten? Oder war Schumanns Düsseldorfer Kreis ein fruchtbares Terrain, aus dem großartige Meisterwerke hervorgingen, weil sich die engen und begabten Freunde - Robert Schumann, Clara Schumann, Albert Dietrich, Johannes Brahms und Joseph Joachim - gegenseitig inspirierten?
Für diese Aufnahme haben Sophie und ich ein Programm ausgewählt, das versucht, diese Fragen zu beantworten. Alle Kammermusikwerke auf dieser CD stammen aus der Zeit zwischen 1849 und 1854, also aus der Düsseldorfer Zeit der Schumanns.
Die persönlichen und musikalischen Verbindungen zwischen Robert Schumann, Clara Schumann, Johannes Brahms und Joseph Joachim sind in all diesen Werken unüberhörbar. Diese biographischen Beziehungen sind für uns als Interpreten interessant, weil sie besondere Stimmungen hervorrufen, die wir in der Musik spüren können. Wir wollen sie ergründen, fühlen und für den Hörer spürbar machen: Das ist eines der spannendsten Projekte, die wir als Interpreten je unternommen haben.
Clara Schumann: Drei Romanzen op.22
"Sie können sich auf das freuen, was gleich kommt", versprach Johannes Brahms Joseph Joachim, der im Januar 1856 ein druckfrisches Exemplar von Clara Schumanns Drei Romanzen op. 22 als verspätetes Weihnachtsgeschenk erhielt. Clara hatte diese drei Stücke im Sommer 1853 komponiert. Robert hatte sich immer schwer getan, den beruflichen Erfolg seiner Frau zu akzeptieren. Obwohl er sie ernst nahm und ihre Äußerungen als kompetente Gesprächspartnerin schätzte, sah er sie in erster Linie als Hausfrau und Mutter ihrer Kinder. Dennoch ermutigte er sie, eigene Werke zu komponieren, und sie war immer die erste, die seine Werke beurteilte.
Nach einer langen Pause komponierte Clara im Jahr 1853 mehrere Werke, darunter diese drei Romanzen für Violine und Klavier. Sie zeigen sie auf dem Höhepunkt ihrer musikalischen Inspiration: Es sind drei Stücke voller Charme, melodischer Nuancen, ..."
© 2021 Florian Glemser

Artist(s)

Florian Glemser (piano)

Florian Glemser is becoming increasingly established as a widely respected concert pianist. Appearances have led him to perform in almost all major concert halls in Germany and in Europe. Born into a musical family, he received his first piano lessons from his mother at the age of three. Only seven years later, he was selected to continue his musical training through a scholarship system of Würzburg University of Music to support highly gifted pupils or students. He made his concert debut at the age of seven, and his orchestral debut with the Würzburg Philharmonic Orchestra in 2007 as the soloist in George Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. This was a most convenient coincidence, as Florian Glemser, an enthusiastic jazz fan, also made a name for himself as a jazz...
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Florian Glemser is becoming increasingly established as a widely respected concert pianist. Appearances have led him to perform in almost all major concert halls in Germany and in Europe.
Born into a musical family, he received his first piano lessons from his mother at the age of three.
Only seven years later, he was selected to continue his musical training through a scholarship system of Würzburg University of Music to support highly gifted pupils or students.
He made his concert debut at the age of seven, and his orchestral debut with the Würzburg Philharmonic Orchestra in 2007 as the soloist in George Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. This was a most convenient coincidence, as Florian Glemser, an enthusiastic jazz fan, also made a name for himself as a jazz pianist in his youth. He won the Soloist Prize of the Würzburg Jazz Initiative and toured throughout Europe with a big band.
At the beginning of his studies, he finally opted for a purely classical career and had the opportunity to win numerous international prizes as a soloist; he was granted scholarships by the German Academic Scholarship Foundation, the Hans and Eugenia Jütting Foundation in Stendal, and the German Foundation for Musical Life.
One of the figures who has exerted the greatest influence on Florian’s development as an artist is professor Grigory Gruzmann, with whom he studied in Weimar.
Florian Glemser currently teaches at Detmold University of Music and at the Mittelfranken Regional Vocational School of Music.

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Sophie Wang (violin)

Sophie Wang has been shining on international musical scenes since making her debut in Festspielhaus Baden-Baden at the age of ten. Born in 1999 in Taiwan, she received her first violin lesson at the age of five. She studied under Rainer Kussmaul, Igor Ozim, Boris Kuschnir, Nora Chastain and Pierre Amoyal. Currently, she studies in Hochschule für Musik Hanns Eisler Berlin with Ning Feng. She has appeared in various concert halls such as Konzerthaus Berlin, Festspielhaus Baden-Baden, Kurhaus Baden-Baden, Festspielhaus Bregenz, Tonhalle Zurich, Stadthaus Winterthur, Shenzhen Concert Hall and National Concert Hall Taipei. As a soloist, she performs regulary among others with the Südwestdeutsche Philharmonie Konstanz, Staatskapelle Weimar, Philharmonie Baden-Baden, Philharmonie Jena, National Symphony Orchestra Taiwan (NSO), Südwestdeutsche Kammerphilharmonie Pforzheim, Zürcher Kammerorchester, Mitteldeutsche Kammerphilharmonie, Salzburg Chamber Soloists, Russische Kammerphilharmonie St....
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Sophie Wang has been shining on international musical scenes since making her debut in Festspielhaus Baden-Baden at the age of ten. Born in 1999 in Taiwan, she received her first violin lesson at the age of five. She studied under Rainer Kussmaul, Igor Ozim, Boris Kuschnir, Nora Chastain and Pierre Amoyal. Currently, she studies in Hochschule für Musik Hanns Eisler Berlin with Ning Feng.
She has appeared in various concert halls such as Konzerthaus Berlin, Festspielhaus Baden-Baden, Kurhaus Baden-Baden, Festspielhaus Bregenz, Tonhalle Zurich, Stadthaus Winterthur, Shenzhen Concert Hall and National Concert Hall Taipei. As a soloist, she performs regulary among others with the Südwestdeutsche Philharmonie Konstanz, Staatskapelle Weimar, Philharmonie Baden-Baden, Philharmonie Jena, National Symphony Orchestra Taiwan (NSO), Südwestdeutsche Kammerphilharmonie Pforzheim, Zürcher Kammerorchester, Mitteldeutsche Kammerphilharmonie, Salzburg Chamber Soloists, Russische Kammerphilharmonie St. Petersburg, Philharmonischen Solisten Stuttgart.
Her chamber music partners include Jana Bouskova, Florian Donderer, Elisabeth Kufferath, Gustav Rivinius, Alexander Rudin, Edicson Ruiz, Gabriel Schwabe and Antje Weithaas.
Sophie Wang is regularly invited to music festivals such as Schleswig-Holstein, Kronberg, Menuhin Festival Gstaad, Internationaler Violinfestival Junger Meister, Salzburger Kammermusikfestival. In 2016, Sophie Wang made her Debut at Spannungen Heimbach Chamber Music Festival.
Sophie Wang gained international attention since she won the first prize of International Louis Spohr Violin Competition Weimar (2013). She has also been awarded first prize at International Violin Competition Andrea Postacchini Fermo (2014), first prize at International Paul Hindemith Violin Competition Berlin (2011) and first prize at International Wolfgang Marschner Competition Freiburg (2010).
Furthermore, she is winner of CHIMEI Museum & Culture Foundation Arts Award 2016 und 2017 among other. The film The Island of 1000 Violins (ARTE 2014) tells the story of her musical life and journey.

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Composer(s)

Robert Schumann

Robert Schumann was a German composer and influential music critic. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest composers of the Romantic era. Schumann left the study of law, intending to pursue a career as a virtuoso pianist. He had been assured by his teacher Friedrich Wieck that he could become the finest pianist in Europe, but a hand injury ended this dream. Schumann then focused his musical energies on composing. Schumann's published compositions were written exclusively for the piano until 1840; he later composed works for piano and orchestra; many Lieder (songs for voice and piano); four symphonies; an opera; and other orchestral, choral, and chamber works. Works such as Carnaval, Symphonic Studies, Kinderszenen, Kreisleriana, and the Fantasie in...
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Robert Schumann was a German composer and influential music critic. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest composers of the Romantic era. Schumann left the study of law, intending to pursue a career as a virtuoso pianist. He had been assured by his teacher Friedrich Wieck that he could become the finest pianist in Europe, but a hand injury ended this dream. Schumann then focused his musical energies on composing.
Schumann's published compositions were written exclusively for the piano until 1840; he later composed works for piano and orchestra; many Lieder (songs for voice and piano); four symphonies; an opera; and other orchestral, choral, and chamber works. Works such as Carnaval, Symphonic Studies, Kinderszenen, Kreisleriana, and the Fantasie in C are among his most famous. His writings about music appeared mostly in the Neue Zeitschrift für Musik (New Journal for Music), a Leipzig-based publication which he jointly founded.
In 1840, Schumann married Friedrich Wieck's daughter Clara, against the wishes of her father, following a long and acrimonious legal battle, which found in favour of Clara and Robert. Clara also composed music and had a considerable concert career as a pianist, the earnings from which, before her marriage, formed a substantial part of her father's fortune.
Schumann suffered from a mental disorder, first manifesting itself in 1833 as a severe melancholic depressive episode, which recurred several times alternating with phases of ‘exaltation’ and increasingly also delusional ideas of being poisoned or threatened with metallic items. After a suicide attempt in 1854, Schumann was admitted to a mental asylum, at his own request, in Endenich near Bonn. Diagnosed with "psychotic melancholia", Schumann died two years later in 1856 without having recovered from his mental illness.

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01.
Three Romances for Violin and Piano, Op. 22: I. Andante Molto
02:51
(Clara Schumann) Sophie Wang, Florian Glemser
02.
Three Romances for Violin and Piano, Op. 22: II. Allegretto. Mit zartem Vortrage
03:04
(Clara Schumann) Sophie Wang, Florian Glemser
03.
Three Romances for Violin and Piano, Op. 22: III. Leidenschaftlich schnell
04:05
(Clara Schumann) Sophie Wang, Florian Glemser
04.
Violinsonata No. 1 a-Moll / in A Minor, Op. 105: I. Mit leidenschaftlichem Ausdruck
07:51
(Robert Schumann) Sophie Wang, Florian Glemser
05.
Violinsonata No. 1 a-Moll / in A Minor, Op. 105: II. Allegretto
04:01
(Robert Schumann) Sophie Wang, Florian Glemser
06.
Violinsonata No. 1 a-Moll / in A Minor, Op. 105: III. Lebhaft
05:31
(Robert Schumann) Sophie Wang, Florian Glemser
07.
Three Romances for Violin and Piano, Op. 94: I. Nicht schnell. Moderato
03:05
(Robert Schumann) Sophie Wang, Florian Glemser
08.
Three Romances for Violin and Piano, Op. 94: II. Einfach. Innig
03:44
(Robert Schumann) Sophie Wang, Florian Glemser
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Three Romances for Violin and Piano, Op. 94: III. Nicht schnell
04:08
(Robert Schumann) Sophie Wang, Florian Glemser
10.
F.A.E. Sonata, for Violin and Piano: Variations on Die letzte Rose / The last Rose, for solo Violin
11:14
(Robert Schumann) Sophie Wang, Florian Glemser
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F.A.E. Sonata, for Violin and Piano: II. Intermezzo. Bewegt, doch nicht zu schnell (Robert Schumann)
02:32
(Robert Schumann) Sophie Wang, Florian Glemser
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F.A.E. Sonata, for Violin and Piano: III. Scherzo. Allegro (Johannes Brahms)
05:18
(Robert Schumann) Sophie Wang, Florian Glemser
13.
F.A.E. Sonata, for Violin and Piano: IV. Finale. Markiertes, ziemlich lebhaftes Tempo (Robert Schumann)
06:51
(Robert Schumann) Sophie Wang, Florian Glemser
14.
Variations on Die letzte Rose / The last Rose, for solo Violin
12:18
(Heinrich Wilhelm Ernst) Sophie Wang, Florian Glemser
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