Warner Classics brings you Robert Schumann’s lesser-known Bilder aus Osten, Op. 66 for piano four hands, featuring the terrific Beatrice Rana and Yannick Nézet -Seguin.
“Robert Schumann had the personality of a poet, using music as a language to really write poems in music - Rana tells - I think that this aspect emerges very strongly in the Bilder aus Osten, where he uses the sound and the musical language to create images and suggestions on the emotional level”...”These pieces were not meant to be played in concert halls, but really at ‘house concerts’, as they were called at that time - she explains - that’s why it’s very easy to imagine Robert and Clara playing them at home on the same piano”.
