Search - Jan Michiels - piano;Benjamin Dieltjens - clarinet;Tony Nys - viola :: Hommage a R. Sch. - Music of Schumann & Kurtag

The combination of volcanic creativity, Robert Schumann's immense respect for Beethoven's piano sonatas and his own connection with Clara Wieck found its reaction in 3 piano sonatas op.11, 14 and 22 between 1831 and 1839. A decade later, a small revolution occurred in Schumann's composing style: fully adult, he returned to the mythic past of fairy tales and legends in eight chamber works with new combinations of instruments (a.o. Märchenerzählungen, Op.132 for clarinet, viola and piano and the Märchenbilder, Op.113 for viola and piano). Mysterious bands that cannot be articulated link the works of Robert Schumann and the Hungarian composer György Kurtág: the suggestion of what is fragmentary, the almost unbearable intensity of musical perception, the links with literature, the ability to 'make music out of almost nothing' (Kurtág), the primal force of the 'Innere Stimme'.