| Label: Mirare Catalog: MIR115 Format: CD Claire Désert, pianoSchumann / Brahms 1853: three artists struck up a mutual friendship. Schumann, the German Romantic, was living out his final moments of creativity before sinking into madness. Clara, his admired pianist wife, had already composed more than twenty works of her own. Brahms, the young tyro composer, on the advice of his friend Joseph Joachim, left the northern mists to come and knock on the Schumanns' door in order to meet Robert, whom he venerated. At this period, borne along on the surge of Romanticism, artists travelled around and ventured on pilgrimages and encounters. |