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For Clara: Works by Schumann & Brahms

Hélène Grimaud (piano), Konstantin Krimmel (baritone)

For Clara: Works by Schumann & Brahms
Piano specialists may regard the addition of a baritone voice on this album as an intrusion, but actually this performance of Brahms's Lieder und Gesänge is what makes it special...Krimmel’s...

BBC Music Magazine, November 20235 out of 5 stars (Performance) / 3 out of 5 stars (Recording)

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For Clara: Works by Schumann & Brahms

Hélène Grimaud (piano), Konstantin Krimmel (baritone)

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Piano specialists may regard the addition of a baritone voice on this album as an intrusion, but actually this performance of Brahms's Lieder und Gesänge is what makes it special...Krimmel’s...

BBC Music Magazine, November 20235 out of 5 stars (Performance) / 3 out of 5 stars (Recording)

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Inspired by the Romantic storyteller E. T. A. Hoffmann’s eccentric alter ego, Robert Schumann’s Kreisleriana is a work Hélène Grimaud has known since she was a teenager and has recorded once before – yet, as she says, “you can spend a lifetime with a piece like this and always find something new”. In revisiting it here, she’s paired it with two pieces by Schumann’s protégé, Johannes Brahms, including a set of songs in which Brahms distilled his unrequited love for Schumann’s widow Clara, and for which Grimaud is partnered by sensational young baritone Konstantin Krimmel.

Contents and tracklist

Schumann: Kreisleriana, Op. 16
Work length35:30
No. 1, Äusserst bewegt
Track length2:52
No. 2, Sehr innig und nicht zu rasch
Track length10:12
No. 3, Sehr aufgeregt
Track length4:55
No. 4, Sehr langsam
Track length4:22
No. 5, Sehr lebhaft
Track length3:19
No. 6, Sehr langsam
Track length4:04
No. 7, Sehr rasch
Track length2:16
No. 8, Schnell und spielend
Track length3:30
Brahms: Intermezzi (3), Op. 117
Work length16:27
No. 1, Andante moderato
Track length4:50
No. 2, Andante non troppo e con molto espressione
Track length4:44
No. 3, Andante con moto
Track length6:53
Brahms: Lieder und Gesänge (9), Op. 32
Work length21:11
No. 1, Wie rafft ich mich auf in der Nacht
Track length4:09
No. 2, Nicht mehr zu dir zu gehen
Track length3:00
No. 3, Ich schleich umher
Track length1:25
No. 4, Der Strom, der neben mir verrauschte
Track length1:14
No. 5, Wehe, so willst du mich wieder
Track length1:45
No. 6, Du sprichst, dass ich mich täuschte
Track length2:23
No. 7, Bitteres zu sagen denkst du
Track length1:39
No. 8, So stehn wir, ich und meine Weide
Track length1:59
No. 9, Wie bist du, meine Königin
Track length3:37

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November 2023

Piano specialists may regard the addition of a baritone voice on this album as an intrusion, but actually this performance of Brahms's Lieder und Gesänge is what makes it special...Krimmel’s light and flexible baritone is well suited to the nine songs in question, in that he brings out the subtlety of the thoughts and images…Grimaud herself is very much on form.
5 out of 5 stars (Performance) / 3 out of 5 stars (Recording)

October 2023

Together, Krimmel and Grimaud create exquisitely characterised vignettes, touching on love, abandonment, devotion and disillusion, perfectly proportioned and keenly expressive...This is musicmaking on a very high level.
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