Artist: Ragna Schirmer
Album: Madame Schumann
Genre: Classical
Release Date: 2019
Audio Format:: FLAC (tracks) 24 bit, 96 kHz
Duration: 02:10:11
Total Tracks: 35
Total Size: 1,97 GB

Tracklist:

1-01. Ragna Schirmer – Piano Quartet in E-Flat Major, Op. 47: I. Sostenuto assai – Allegro ma non troppo (09:06)
1-02. Ragna Schirmer – Piano Quartet in E-Flat Major, Op. 47: II. Scherzo. Molto vivace (03:41)
1-03. Ragna Schirmer – Piano Quartet in E-Flat Major, Op. 47: III. Andante cantabile (07:00)
1-04. Ragna Schirmer – Piano Quartet in E-Flat Major, Op. 47: IV. Finale. Vivace (07:57)
1-05. Ragna Schirmer – “Über allen Gipfeln ist Ruh” (01:27)
1-06. Ragna Schirmer – Myrthen, Op. 25: No. 1, Widmung (02:11)
1-07. Ragna Schirmer – Piano Trio in G Minor, Op. 17: I. Allegro moderato (10:29)
1-08. Ragna Schirmer – Piano Trio in G Minor, Op. 17: II. Scherzo. Tempo di Menuetto (04:41)
1-09. Ragna Schirmer – Piano Trio in G Minor, Op. 17: III. Andante – più animato (04:54)
1-10. Ragna Schirmer – Piano Trio in G Minor, Op. 17: IV. Allegretto (08:11)
1-11. Ragna Schirmer – Piano Sonata No. 21 “Waldstein”: I. Allegro con brio (10:57)
1-12. Ragna Schirmer – Piano Sonata No. 21 “Waldstein”: II. Introduzione. Adagio molto (04:07)
1-13. Ragna Schirmer – Piano Sonata No. 21 “Waldstein”: III. Rondo. Allegretto moderato (09:17)
1-14. Ragna Schirmer – Sonata in D Major, K. 430 “Tempo di Ballo” (02:37)
1-15. Ragna Schirmer – Improvisation à la Clara Schumann I (00:34)
1-16. Ragna Schirmer – Suite No. 7, HWV 432: IV. Sarabande (02:15)
1-17. Ragna Schirmer – Suite No. 7, HWV 432: V. Gigue (01:31)
1-18. Ragna Schirmer – Suite No. 7, HWV 432: VI. Passacaglia (03:16)
1-19. Ragna Schirmer – Improvisation à la Clara Schumann II (01:08)
1-20. Ragna Schirmer – Gavotte, Wq. 40 (Arr. Brahms) (04:22)
1-21. Ragna Schirmer – Kinderszenen, Op. 15: No. 1, “Von fremden Ländern und Menschen” (01:34)
1-22. Ragna Schirmer – Kinderszenen, Op. 15: No. 2, “Kuriose Geschichte” (01:06)
1-23. Ragna Schirmer – Kinderszenen, Op. 15: No. 3, “Hasche-Mann” (00:30)
1-24. Ragna Schirmer – Kinderszenen, Op. 15: No. 4, “Bittendes Kind” (00:49)
1-25. Ragna Schirmer – Kinderszenen, Op. 15: No. 5, “Glückes genug” (00:37)
1-26. Ragna Schirmer – Kinderszenen, Op. 15: No. 7, “Träumerei” (02:43)
1-27. Ragna Schirmer – Kinderszenen, Op. 15: No. 8, “Am Kamin” (00:56)
1-28. Ragna Schirmer – Kinderszenen, Op. 15: No. 9, “Ritter vom Steckenpferd” (00:40)
1-29. Ragna Schirmer – Kinderszenen, Op. 15: No. 10, “Fürchtenmachen” (01:43)
1-30. Ragna Schirmer – Kinderszenen, Op. 15: No. 11, “Kind im Einschlummern” (02:17)
1-31. Ragna Schirmer – Kinderszenen, Op. 15: No. 13, “Der Dichter spricht” (02:35)
1-32. Ragna Schirmer – Waltz in C-Sharp Minor, Op. 64, No. 2 (03:20)
1-33. Ragna Schirmer – Improvisation à la Clara Schumann III (00:31)
1-34. Ragna Schirmer – Impromptu No. 1, Op. 29 (03:59)
1-35. Ragna Schirmer – Rondo Capriccioso, Op. 14 (06:53)

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One of the most exceptional female artists of the 19th century celebrates her 200th birthday in 2019. The acknowledged Clara Schumann expert Ragna Schirmer has devoted a special act of homage to her artistic predecessor, taking two original concert programmes selected from Clara’s decades of concert performance and recording them to provide insight into the life and work of this very special woman.In 1847, Clara and her husband Robert Schumann gave a matinee concert in the Berlin salon of Fanny Hensel. The programme featured two songs and the premiere performances of the piano quartet by Robert and the piano trio by Clara Schumann. 25 years later, on a tour of England, she played a solo piano recital (an unusual practice at that time) featuring all the works that meant most to her: her husband’s “Scenes from Childhood” and works by Beethoven, Scarlatti, Chopin, Brahms and Mendelssohn, a programme that delighted her audience.

She was announced as “Madame Schumann”. From over 1300 printed programmes, collected and preserved by the celebrated pianist over the course of her performing career, Ragna Schirmer opted for just these two. “The number of great works she studied and performed in the course of her life is quite amazing,” says Ragna Schirmer. “Another thing that fascinated me was the form, sequence and planning of her concerts. She played alongside the most important musicians of her time and most of her concerts reveal themselves to be varied compilations of different music genres.”

Ragna Schirmer has long been recognized for her intimate engagement with the life of Clara Schumann. In April 2019, she will receive the Robert Schumann Prize of the City of Zwickau. “I have all her diaries at home, I have all her letters at home, I have all the biographies ever written, her children’s reminiscences … I find it incredibly exciting to be involved with this life and I regard her as an essential role model.”