Schumann, G.: Hommage Bach

Staier, Andreas

HMC 901989

For Schumann, Bach was the supreme benchmark. He saw in his great predecessor not merely a genius of the past, but a vital source for his art, and sought both inspiration and psychological stability in Bach’s music. Schumann paid tribute to his mentor in many different ways: writing chorales and fugues like Bach, borrowing his themes, or playing on the four notes which form his name, B-A-C-H. This programme, recorded on an Érard piano with an ideal timbre, is played by a passionate admirer of these two masters of the keyboard. • • Andreas Staier plays an Érard piano, Paris, 1837.

Works:

Schumann: Album for the Young, Op. 68
• Schumann: Kinderszenen, Op. 15
• Schumann: Klavierstücke (4), Op. 32
• Schumann: Seven Clavierstücke in Fughettenform, Op.126
• Schumann: Waldszenen, Op. 82

CD

Muzyka klasyczna

Harmonia Mundi

23-10-2008

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