![]() Codispoti also recorded a full Cesar Franck (PCL0052) album for Piano Classics.Clara was born in 1819. His sonority, too, has an Arrau-like fullness and richness”. Bryce Morrison wrote in Gramophone: “he plays with a warmth and fervor worthy of Cortot himself. He has superb technical command, exceptionally fine taste in his interpretation and impressive maturity“. György Sandor said of him: “one of the finest young concert pianists I know. Presented in this new recording are her Piano Sonata, Drei Romanzen Op.11, Soirées Musicales Op.6 and the Variations on a theme of Robert Schumann (the same theme as Brahms later used for his set of variations).ĭomenico Codispoti is one of the foremost Italian pianists of today. Her own compositions, though influenced by her contemporaries (notably her husband.), show an individual and original musical mind, both lyrical and passionate, in highly eloquent and often challenging pianism. With performances of tremendous sweep and conviction it makes for a highly persuasive introduction to Clara’s music.Ĭlara Wieck Schumann’s place in history has long been overshadowed by the fame of her husband Robert Schumann, her main claim to fame was her (indeed superb) piano playing and concertizing. Thus, unlike many previous compilations of her music, Codispoti surveys her output in the round, and allows us to hear it mature even as she found herself given fewer and fewer opportunities to exercise her own creative gifts. ![]() ![]() On this new album, Codispoti performs a prodigiously accomplished set of Soirées Musicales, Op.6, published while Clara was still a teenager the strikingly mature trio of Romances written before she turned 20 a G minor Sonata dating from the time just before and after her marriage to Robert and finally the Variations on a theme by Robert which she composed to celebrate her husband’s 42nd birthday in 1853. It was Liszt who had created the modern concept of the solo piano recital in 1840, but he retired from performance soon afterwards, and Clara was the one who created the image of the modern pianist. Her gifts as a creator that were much admired at the time, not only by her husband but by Franz Liszt, the greatest virtuoso of his day. It is right, therefore, that her art should be so celebrated 200 years after her birth in Leipzig. We may view Clara now as a strikingly independent woman, a woman of her time yet one who worked tirelessly against the grain of assumption and prejudice. A leading pianist of her day, the wife of one great composer and the intimate friend of another, Clara was also mother to eight children, a serious composer and a hugely influential teacher during the course of a career in the public eye spanning over 60 years. Now he turns his attention to music from the other end of the Romantic era, composed by a figure even more significant in the history of the piano and pianists, Clara Wieck Schumann. ‘His sonority, too, has an Arrau-like fullness and richness.’īorn in 1975, Codispoti has a growing discography of Romantic-era music including the piano works of César Franck on Piano Classics (PCL0052): a ‘most distinguished and enterprising recital’ according to Gramophone, in which ‘Codispoti gives us an impetus and virtuosity to set pulses racing.’ ‘Domenico Codispoti plays with a warmth and fervour worthy of Cortot himself,’ according to the veteran Gramophone piano critic Bryce Morrison. Marking the bicentenary of her birth, a major new collection of Clara Wieck Schumann’s piano music from a critically acclaimed Italian pianist. ![]()
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