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Clara & Robert Schumann Piano Concertos
Robert Schumann: Piano Concerto in A minor, Op. 54; Clara Schumann: Piano Concerto in A minor, Op. 7.
Beatrice Rana, piano; Chamber Orchestra of Europe; Yannick Nézet-Séguin, conductor
Warner Classics 5054197296284
Total Time: 57:20
Beatrice Rana won the Montreal International Competition in 2011 at the age of 18. Now 30 years old, this fine Italian pianist is in demand all over the world.
Clara Schumann wrote her only piano concerto when she was just 14 and gave it its first performance with Mendelssohn conducting. Because she was “only a woman” her concerto has languished in obscurity. It deserves better. It is a wonderful piece for its melodic invention, its dazzling pianism and originality. It has a lovely cello solo in the slow movement and a delicious dialogue between solo winds and piano in the Polonaise finale.
Rana and Yannick Nézet-Séguin, and the stellar players of the Chamber Orchestra of Europe play both the Clara and Robert Schumann concertos with incomparable sensitivity and romantic flexibility. And Rana gives us an inspired encore: Liszt’s arrangement of one of Robert’s most memorable creations, the song Widmung.
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