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The magical world of Schumann<\/p>\n
In his works \u2018Kinderszenen\u2019 and \u2018Album for the Young\u2019, Robert Schumann wrote music that speaks to both children and adults alike. Liv Glaser and her 1830 Hafner fortepiano thrive in Schumann\u2019s world of everyday stories and magic fun and games.<\/p>\n
As a little girl in a family of professional musicians, Liv Glaser came to know and love Schumann\u2019s work at an early age. Now as a mature adult she realizes how intimately these pieces were tied up with Schumann\u2019s private life, how the music is almost as if one were opening a door into their home and peeping in.<\/p>\n
Celebrating her 75th birthday in 2010, as well as 50 years since her debut concert, Professor Liv Glaser continues her musical endeavours with the same strength as ever. Some 20 years ago she started studies of original instruments and performance practice with Malcolm Bilson. The result is several critically acclaimed recordings of such composers as Mozart, Clementi, Schubert and Grieg.<\/p>\n
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In his works \u2018Kinderszenen\u2019 and \u2018Album for the Young\u2019, Robert Schumann wrote music that speaks to both children and adults alike. Liv Glaser and her 1830 Hafner fortepiano thrive in Schumann\u2019s world of everyday stories and magic fun and games.<\/p>\n
Many of the pieces in \u201cAlbum for the Young\u201d Schumann wrote for his eldest daughter\u2019s seven-year birthday. Written to be played by children, each of the small pieces tells its own little story. Glaser herself played these pieces at the same age, from a 1878 edition she inherited from her grandmother: \u201cThe first piece, \u2018Melody\u2019, suited my little hands so well, and the short \u2018Chorale\u2019 was as if made for a Christmas performance in the home. Besides this it was even permissible to play \u2018Knecht Ruprecht\u2019 all in a rage and at times it could be quite difficult to hold back the tears in \u2018Erster Verlust\u2019.\u201d For this release, Glaser has arranged a selection of pieces for \u2018Album for the Young\u2019 with the four seasons as a vignette, reaching back to the idea behind Schumann\u2019s first edition of the pieces.<\/p>\n
After receiving his beloved Clara\u2019s enthusiastic reaction to the pieces, Schumann wrote back: \u2018What I in all modesty have invented, maybe one day will become our reality?\u2019 These words open up for the idea that Schumann not only looked upon Kinderszenen as a recollection of childhood, but perhaps to an even greater extent as a dream of their life together in the future? A dream which in actual fact, after several years struggle, came true; Robert and Clara married each other in 1840, the year after the publication of Kinderszenen.<\/p>\n
Celebrating her 75th birthday this year, as well as 50 years since her debut concert, Professor Liv Glaser continues her musical endeavours with the same strength as ever. Some 20 years ago she started studies of original instruments and performance practice with Malcolm Bilson. The result is several critically acclaimed recordings of such composers as Mozart, Clementi, Schubert and Grieg.<\/p>\n
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