Helene Grimaud - For Clara- Works By Schumann & Brahms

Pianist Hélène Grimaud explores German Romanticism on double LP!

On her 2023 album, pianist Hélène Grimaud explores the rich universe of German Romanticism, combining Robert Schumann's Kreisleriana op. 16 with Brahms' Intermezzi op. 117 and Lieder und Gesängen op. 32. Grimaud has known Schumann's Kreisleriana for most of her life.

"You can spend a lifetime with a piece like this and always discover something new," the pianist says. Her special relationship with the German Romantics is evident on her album For Clara, which focuses not only on the pianist's relationship with the music of Robert Schumann and his protégé Brahms, but in particular on the two composers' connection to Clara Schumann.

Grimaud recorded Brahms' Songs and Cantos op. 32. with baritone Konstantin Krimmel, who was already her musical partner on the album Silent Songs, about which BBC Music Magazine wrote: "Konstantin Krimmel and Hélène Grimaud deserve the highest praise for their confident and unaffected performance of this beautiful, dreamlike music." Together, Grimaud and Krimmel movingly convey the themes of love, loss, devotion, and disillusionment, expressed in both words and music.

 

Side A

ROBERT SCHUMANN (1810–1856) KREISLERIANA, OP. 16

AuBerst bewegt

Sehr innig und nicht zu rasch

Sehr aufgeregt

Side B

Sehr langsam

Sehr lebhaft

Sehr langsam

Sehr rasch

Schnell und spielend

Side C

JOHANNES BRAHMS (1833-1897) DREI INTERMEZZI, OP.117

I. Andante moderato

II. Andante con troppo e con molto espressione

III. Andante con moto

Side D

JOHANNES BRAHMS LIEDER UND GESÄNGE, OP. 32

Wie rafft ich mich auf in der Nacht

Nicht mehr zu dir zu gehen. Langsam

Ich schleich umher. Mässig

Der Strom, der neben mir verrauschte. Moderato, ma agitato

Wehe, so willst du mich wieder. Allegro

Du sprichst, dass ich mich täuschte. Andante con moto

Bitteres zu sagen denkst du. Con moto, espressivo ma grazioso

So stehn wir, ich und meine Weide. In gehender Bewegung

Wie bist du, meine Königin. Adagio

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