Name: Schumann: Pappillons & Kinderszenen / Brahms: Opp. 117 & 118 - Sarah Beth Briggs
SKU: 0822252239829

Schumann: Pappillons & Kinderszenen / Brahms: Opp. 117 & 118 – Sarah Beth Briggs

Schumann Papillons, Op. 2 (Excerpt)
Brahms 3 Intermezzi in E-Flat Major, Op. 117
Brahms 6 Pianostücke in E-Flat Minor, Op. 118
Schumann Kinderszenen “Scenes from Childhood”, Op. 15

Sarah Beth Briggs

Reference: 5223982120030
Barcode: 0822252239829
Label: Avie

Format: 1 CD

Release date: 11/1/2019

Barcode: 0822252239829 Categories: CD, Classical

13,90€

in Piano International (Mar, 2019)
As Sarah Beth Briggs’ own booklet notes make clear, Clara Schumann is central to this intriguing, delightfully played and generously filled disc of works by Schumann and Brahms. While Kinderszenen (1838) was inspired by a comment Clara made about Schumann’s occasional child-like nature, Brahms’ valedictory sets were written with his lifelong unrequited love very much in mind. Clara was the first person to see the three Intermezzi and these and the remaining collections (Opp 116, 118 and 119) in turn encouraged her to revisit Kinderszenen. And if Papillons (1831) arose from quite different inspiration (Jean Paul’s novel Flegeljahre), somehow the young Clara Wieck still seems to hover in the background.