Clara Schumann
Clara Schumann's chamber and piano works speak with lyrical warmth and intimate Romantic colour. Her Notturno and Three Romances, Op. 22, carry melodic lines that sit naturally under the fingers and in the ear, music shaped for the salon and the recital stage.
Her catalogue ranges across solo piano pieces, songs, chamber music and a piano concerto. The Three Romances began life for violin and piano; their singing phrases and quick-shifting moods translate cleanly to clarinet, where the dialogue stays tender and close. A Notturno for piano holds a melody Robert Schumann later folded into his own Novellette. She wrote with the ear of a lifelong recitalist, favouring clear line and expressive intimacy over pure display, and the same instinct shaped the shorter lyric pieces that sit so readily beside Robert's house-music and fantasy sets.
Clara Schumann is featured on the following titles
True Romantics
In True Romantics, clarinettist Philip Arkinstall and pianist Kristian Chong bring lyrical warmth to Brahms’s Clarinet Sonatas, Op. 120, and Clara Schumann’s Three Romances, Op. 22, here in Roger Young’s clarinet transcription.
Compositions by Clara Schumann also appear on
Schumann Cello
Cellist Zoe Knighton and pianist Amir Farid continue their partnership in a programme of short works by Clara and Robert Schumann, pairing song transcriptions with chamber pieces for cello and piano.
Night Thoughts
During the long still nights of Melbourne’s Covid lockdowns, pianist Len Vorster listened widely and thought hard about what he heard. Those evening ruminations became this programme of fifteen nocturnes and night pieces, from Schumann’s circle to Copland.