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On her new album, pianist Hélène Grimaud explores the rich universe of German Romanticism, combining Robert Schumann's Kreisleriana op. 16 with Brahms' Intermezzi op. 117 and Lieder und Gesängen op. 32. Grimaud has known Schumann's Kreisleriana for most of her life. "You can spend a lifetime with a piece like this and always discover something new," the pianist says. Her special relationship with the German Romantics is evident on her album "For Clara," which focuses not only on the pianist's relationship with the music of Robert Schumann and his protégé Brahms, but in particular on the two composers' connection to Clara Schumann.

Grimaud recorded Brahms' Songs and Cantos op. 32. with baritone Konstantin Krimmel, who was already her musical partner on the album Silent Songs, about which BBC Music Magazine wrote: "Konstantin Krimmel and Hélène Grimaud deserve the highest praise for their confident and unaffected performance of this beautiful, dreamlike music." Together, Grimaud and Krimmel movingly convey the themes of love, loss, devotion, and disillusionment, expressed in both words and music.

Tracklist:

LP 1 Side A 
ROBERT SCHUMANN (1810–1856)
Kreisleriana, Op. 16
1. Äußerst bewegt
2. Sehr innig und nicht zu rasch
3. Sehr aufgeregt

LP 1 Side B
4. Sehr langsam
5. Sehr lebhaft
6. Sehr langsam
7. Sehr rasch
8. Schnell und spielend

LP 2 Side A 
JOHANNES BRAHMS (1833-1897)
Drei Intermezzi, Op.117
9. I. Andante moderato
10. II. Andante con troppo e con molto espressione
11. III. Andante con moto

LP 2 Side B
Lieder und Gesänge (op. 32)
12. Wie rafft ich mich auf in der Nacht
13. Nicht mehr zu dir zu gehen. Langsam
14. Ich schleich umher. Mässig
15. Der Strom, der neben mir verrauschte. Moderato, ma agitato
16. Wehe, so willst du mich wieder. Allegro
17. Du sprichst, dass ich mich täuschte. Andante con moto
18. Bitteres zu sagen denkst du. Con moto, espressivo ma grazioso
19. So stehn wir, ich und meine Weide. In gehender Bewegung
20. Wie bist du, meine Königin. Adagio