Search - Robert Schumann, Pierre Huybregts :: Papillons / Kinderscenen / Etudes Symphoniques

When your musically knowledgeable friends come over for dinner, you can have fun with them. After the meal is over, put on this disc and tell them it's some great new discovery of yours. See how long it takes them to get the joke. Pierre Huybregts has recorded for several labels that accept subsidies from the artists to publish them. He is a clumsy-sounding pianist who has turned out here one of the worst Schumann piano CDs, awkwardly played at every turn. If you need a good version of Kinderszenen, for example, try Achatz, Argerich, Arrau, Ashkenazy... --Leslie Gerber