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Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert: Schumann Plus performed by Danny Driver

Schumann Plus performed by Danny Driver

BBC Radio 3 - Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert, Schumann Plus performed by Danny Driver

Nicola Heywood Thomas presents a live concert of Schumann performed by Danny Driver.

Nicola Heywood Thomas presents Schumann Plus - a live series of concerts from St David's Hall, Cardiff, today featuring pianist Danny Driver.

Nicola Heywood Thomas presents Schumann Plus, a series of concerts broadcast live from St David's Hall, Cardiff, focusing on the music of Robert Schumann, plus works by lesser-known composers including Doreen Carwithen, Henriëtte Bosmans, Ruth Gipps and Susan Spain-Dunk.

In the second concert this week broadcast live from St David’s Hall in Cardiff, pianist Danny Driver performs Schumann’s epic Fantasie in C. This work was composed in the late 1830s, a period when Schumann was uncertain and anxious about his relationship with Clara Wieck, given her father’s hostility towards him. Friedrich Wieck had banned the two from seeing each other, and Schumann revealed that the first movement of the Fantasie was a lament for her. The concert begins with music by the Franco-American composer Betsy Jolas, Pièce pour piano, composed in 1997, and is followed by a selection of preludes from 1917 by the Dutch composer Henriëtte Bosmans.

Danny Driver, piano

Jolas: Pièce pour piano
Bosmans: Zes preludes, No’s 3-6
Schumann: Fantasie in C, Op 17

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